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Cybercrime is on the rise, there is no denying this fact. With people becoming more reliant on technology, using their smartphones to log into their bank accounts and using social media which stores and uses your data, hackers are sometimes able to take advantage of this. You may think your business is impenetrable, however, this […]
Believe it or not, there is still a large number of people who use passwords such as “password,” “password123”, “[dog’s name]1” and others along the same lines. And in the era of sophisticated hacking, these passwords are not exactly “safe.” Before me, this is the first thing websites should inform you while setting up a password. But apparently, many […]
Another day, another data breach – Adidas believes hackers did not steal customers’ credit card or health and fitness data. One of the world’s largest sportswear manufacturer Adidas has announced that hackers have targeted its US website and as a result, personal details of millions of Adidas US customers have been stolen. According to Addidas, it is […]
According to Big Brother Watch, a British privacy advocate, and civil liberties organization, the Voice ID system of HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) has stored voice records of over 5.1 million British citizens – All that without their consent or knowledge. The voice collection saga began in January last year when HMRC launched a service called Voice ID aiming at […]
One of the largest flight tracking services, Flightradar24, which shows real-time airplane locations on the map has suffered a massive data breach that may have leaked emails and encrypted passwords of over 230,000 users. The company began sending email to the users earlier this week, asking them to change their passwords. Flightradar24’s incomplete announcement about […]
Twitter, the social network, and online news giant is sending notifications to each and every registered user (336 million in total) urging them to change their account password. This is because a bug in its system saved user passwords on an unprotected internal log in plain text format. Although the bug has been fixed and there […]
Almost a month has passed since the security firm Malwarebytes leaked the images of the so-called iPhone unlocking hardware GrayKey Box – a boon for the security agencies. The company named GrayShift developed the black box. The device comes in $15,000 and $30,000 variants with the former being geofenced and having an unlocking count of […]
Windows is a relatively secure environment, and with the enhancements to Windows Defender on Windows 10, Microsoft is continually improving its security capabilities. That said, however, Windows doesn’t rank very well in terms of the most secure operating systems. Although absolute security is debatable, most experts agree that Linux is a more secure OS than […]
Flight Simulator Lab is caught secretly installing a software which steals Chrome passwords from the browser while checking if the user has installed a pirated copy of their software. Over the years there have been many DRM (Digital rights management) schemes, some of which were quite intriguing but not as much as this one that […]
SNMP brute force, enumeration, CISCO config downloader and password cracking script. Listens for any responses to the brute force community strings, effectively minimising wait time. Requirements metasploit snmpwalk snmpstat john the ripper Usage python snmp-brute.py -t [IP] Options–help, -h show this help message and exit–file=DICTIONARY, -f DICTIONARY Dictionary file–target=IP, -t IP Host IP–port=PORT, -p PORT […]
New bug discovered in macOS High Sierra allows unlocking the App Store System Preferences by any password. App Store System Preferences accept any password when system logged in with local admin Privilege. This could be very dangerous if anyone already has your system permission and they can able to download any apps, modifying the apps store […]
This type of abusive conduct is possible because of a configuration flaw in the login handlers included with all browsers, login managers that allow browsers to memorize a user’s username and password for particular sites and auto-insert it in login fields when the user revisits that site again. Experts say that web trackers can install […]
While becoming “123456” as your phrase is quite bad, the other phrases found on a list of Top 100 Worst Passwords of 2017 are just as distressing and remorseful. The list was put together by SplashData, a corporation that provides several password management services such as TeamsID and Gpass. The business said it compiled the […]
Keeper is the name of Windows’ password manager that comes free with every fresh copy of Windows 10. Unfortunately, a critical bug has been identified by Google Project Zero researcher Travis Ormandy in the new version of Keeper and it was not patched for nearly eight days. “I created a new Windows 10 VM with […]
As incredulous as it sounds, it is indeed true that scientists at “University at Albany” in the US have developed a new biometric based verification concept that utilizes our body sweat to unlock wearable devices and smartphones. Researchers explained that this new approach relies upon analyzing the skin secretions, that is, sweat to generate a […]
Netflix has over 100 million users, and that is the reason it has become a highly lucrative target for cybercriminals. Lately, a new phishing scam has been making rounds on the Internet that aims at stealing login and credit card details of Netflix users. In this phishing scam, cybercriminals are sending fake emails alerting users […]
VerticalScope is an Internet media organization that gives scope and examination to technology, car, and games vertical markets. The web forum consists of 45 million user accounts and the hack occurred the second time in two years according to the report by kerbs on Security. LeakedSource is a search-engine capable of searching over 1.9 billion […]
A Banking Trojan called “EMOTET” Re-emerging again with New Capabilities that stealing personal information such as username and Password via Network Sniffing method. Initially, EMOTET Discovered on 2014 when it has similar futures often rely on form field insertion or phishing pages to steal information. There is 2 main Reason for re-emerging this EMOTET Malware Even […]
If you remember the FBI paid millions of dollars to Israeli firm Cellebrite to unlock San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone. Now, it turns out that a $500 device that can recover passcodes of not one or two but three iPhone 7 at the same time. Believe it or not but this American YouTuber has posted a video showing a […]
How to hack a Facebook account is one the most searched keywords over the Internet and there are if not thousands then hundreds of websites claiming to provide Facebook account hacking service. But are these sites doing what they claim? Not at all. According to a Twitter user going by the handle of MalwareHunterTeam, a group […]
According to UnicornTeam, a group of Chinese researchers from country’s leading security firm 360 Technology, there is a dangerous vulnerability in 4G LTE network’s Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) which allows hackers to hijack cell phone numbers. Unicorn Team demonstrated the findings (PDF) on Sunday at the Black Hat USA 2017 hacker summit. As per the team […]