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On Tuesday, Amazon started sending out emails to its users asking for a quick password reset, the reason is a possible breach of some of the users’ credentials. According to the email (dispatched by the company), Amazon was not sure if there is a possible breach into their systems or not but as a precautionary […]
According to an official document from the FBI, a Russian gang has been involved in a breach of 1.2 billion login credentials. Furthermore, the records state the gang as “CyberVor” and have been charged with theft of 1.2 billion login credentials and half a billion email addresses. FBI’s investigations were based on the findings of […]
The best tool for cyber criminals with limited social engineering skills is tricking users into phishing scams and it doesn’t matter if the users are on a Mac, Linux or Windows OS, and that’s what’s been going on in the scam we are about to discuss. In this phishing campaign, Comodo researchers found out that […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous released what they called a list of Ku Klux Klan members and sympathizers on Thursday. As reported earlier, the Anonymous hacktivists are leaking personal information of the members belonging to the white supremacist Christian organization the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Now, in the second phase of their OpKKK the hacktivists have leaked a trove of […]
Researchers have discovered an Android malware disguising itself as a Microsoft word document which triggers a malicious code once opened. This Android malware was found when a user installed an app from third-party app developers. Once the app was installed, a Microsoft word like icon appeared on the home screen and before even the user could think […]
A security researcher (Troy Hunt), who owns the website (haveibeenpwned) have discovered a possible breach of webhosting service 000Webhost servers. Basically, hunt’s site provides information on whether a user’s data has ever been breached online. So, an unknown user recently contacted the researcher and told him about a data breach taking place in an attack […]
Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. CAT is a state-owned telecom firm that has been selected by Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut […]
The CIA and the FBI are always looking for backdoors in Apple devices, in fact, the agency spent years trying to hack iPhone and iPads according to documents released by NSA’s Edward Snowden. Now, with the new upgraded operating systems, Apple has termed it “impossible” to access any data from Apple devices. Though, the company can […]
Short Bytes: Increasing data breaches have made the personal identifiable information (PII) market very hot. The latest report outlines the different aspects of data breaches. Read more here. Recently I wrote a piece describing the ways to know if your identity was hacked/stolen in some recent data breach. Many of you are unaware of the […]
Experian, a major credit reference agency has suffered a huge data breach. Around 15 million T-Mobile users (who signed up for T-Mobile’s service last month) suffered as their information was leaked by hackers. T-Mobile used Experian to process its credit applications and perform credit checks on its customers. It is reported that any user who […]
Since the official public launch of Microsoft’s new operating system Windows 10 and the announcement of the company’s revised all-in-one privacy policy, allegations against the privacy settings of Windows 10 and the user data being unwantedly spied by Microsoft have been levelled all over the Internet. The scale of finger-pointing at Microsoft have ultimately forced them to reconsider their privacy […]
Edward Snowden claims that if the technology keeps on becoming sophisticated and flawless then we may never be able to locate aliens and they won’t be able to notice us as well. In a candid chit-chat session with Neil deGrasse Tyson on Friday, September 18, famous NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden spoke in defense of the […]
In the past, we reported how your wearable fitness trackers can be hacked. Now, The university of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s associate professor Romit Roy Choudhry used a local app on Samsung Gear Live smartwatch to check the way data typed by a user got leaked due to the device’s motion sensors. According to Roy: “The project, called Motion […]
This tool has been developed by the University of Cambridge and uses Facebook Likes data to estimate a person’s key psychological traits, and political/religious views. Have you ever thought about the massiveness of your Facebook data? It includes almost everything that you do on Facebook from the profiles you check, the amount of time spent […]
If you are using Facebook, there is certain information which should never be used whatsoever. The primary reason behind using Facebook is to share your life and views with friends and family but don’t ever share these five personal bits of information on the social network – ever because when it comes to Facebook, some details are […]
A Saudi hacker going with the online handle of JM511 has breached into the server of a UK-based international network of independent recruitment experts known as TEAM. After bypassing the security hacker accessed and leaked login credentials of thousands of registered recruitment agencies over the Internet. The breach was conducted on 8th August 2015 in which […]
Another day, another Facebook phishing scam — Facebook users must be cautious since a new phishing scam message is circulating on the social network. A new phishing scam message titled “Forbidden Content” has been circulating across Facebook timelines nowadays. According to this, forbidden content and mistrustful activity has been identified on your Facebook account. The […]
Summary: Jon Eric Ritzheimer, the man behind organizing an anti-Islamic protest in Phoenix, Arizona is now claiming that he has been hacked by pro-Islamic hackers. Ritzheimer, who planned the controversial draw Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest rally in Arizona is upset and fears that his life is in danger because someone hacked him and his family and leaked […]
Hackers working for the Chinese military unit allegedly carried out a “massive breach” in December targeting records of the Office of Personnel Management workers, officials said. The OPM serves as the federal government’s human resource department and the agency compiles records and issues security clearances of all the federal government employees. The Office of Personnel […]
Japan’s national pension system was hacked due to which personal data of 1.25million people got leaked. On Monday, the Japan Pension Service announced that the hacking of its National Pension system has affected user data of around 1.25million people. This scandal exposed the nation’s botched handling of the pension records of its citizens. According to […]
Summary: Personal Data of More than 500Million Android Users in Danger — Researchers Claim it is Impossible to Fully Delete Data from Handset after changing Mobile Phone. Even after full wipe it is possible to access text messages, emails, apps, photos and videos because around 630million cell phones cannot clear internal SD cards when the […]