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A new facial recognition tool is developed by the researchers at Trustwave, an information security company. This is an open-source facial recognition tool will help agencies gather intelligence at a faster turnaround time. The software is supposed to be a Social mapper which will help the agency find the profiles of hackers who hack into […]
Weevely is a web shell designed for post-exploitation purposes that can be extended over the network at runtime. Upload weevely PHP agent to a target web server to get remote shell access to it. It has more than 30 modules to assist administrative tasks, maintain access, provide situational awareness, elevate privileges, and spread into the […]
Intel’s management engine – in most Positive Technologies plans to demonstrate at the next Black Hat conference how to hack over USB into Intel Management Engine of most CPUs since 2008. Experts from Positive Technologies that in September announced to have devised a technique a toattack the Intel Management Engine, now provided more details about it […]
Short Bytes: At the Black Hat 2016 hacker conference in Las Vegas, the world saw a variety of cutting-edge cyber security applications. Some of these hacks stood out from the others and gained widespread praises. Here’s a quick recap of the 5 best Black Hat 2016 hacks, including the likes of famous Jeep Cherokee hackers […]
Infected websites are hard to detect, only show up for users coming off search engines and for search bots. A new black hat SEO campaign is leveraging a combination of hacked websites, backdoors, doorway scripts, and SEO poisoning to redirect a website’s users to pornographic websites. This whole scenario relies on an attacker’s ability to hack into […]
The dark web is well known as a space where anything can be bought or sold: guns, drugs, stolen data, and extreme pornography are all relatively easy to get hold of with a few clicks of a mouse. But anonymity networks such as Tor, as well as the hidden sites they facilitate, can also act […]
Short Bytes: EMV credit cards have till now been assumed to be unhackable. The security professor from the University of California explains how it is NOT so. With the advancing technology and due time has given anything and everything can be hacked. We have already seen some of such events like the car-hacking, whole corporates brought […]
A video demonstration by the University of California researchers how a simple text message can control your car. The months of July and August have been bad for the automotive industry, thanks to the hackers who found out how easy it is to hack Jeep Cherokee leaving 470,000 vehicles vulnerable. As if that wasn’t enough when another hacker demonstrated […]
This year, at DefCon 23 and Black Hat USA 2015 security conferences, hackers are going to discuss how vulnerable and severely flawed our day-to-day things really are. Here at HackRead.com, we have brought you 7 much awaited hacking discussions that are related to the technologies towards which most of the individuals are looking forward to […]
A recent experiment by a researcher would force you to reconsider the safety of your important data and make you put a meshed shield around your computers and data centres to stop the radio frequencies from passing. A researcher named Ang Cui demonstrated that there’s a possibility to remotely steal data from a targeted computer […]
As the dates for the Black Hat and Def Con Hacking Conference are approaching closer and closer, we are hearing more and more about the vulnerabilities and security flaws in the things we are highly dependent in our day-to-day life. Last week we reported about how two hackers while sitting on their comfy sofas, managed […]
We have heard about hacking websites, computers, planes, and other devices, but hacking a moving car? Well, it happened and it happened live. Hackers have tried and tested an exploit which was found in the onboard system of a Jeep Cherokee. They managed to remotely take over the control and crash the vehicle into a ditch […]