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Ethical hacking experts report the arrest of two security specialists hired to evaluate a US court’s IT infrastructure; according to the reports, the two experts were caught while trying to physically access the court’s systems. Justin Wynn and Gary Demercurio, the two information security specialists involved, were arrested by police in Iowa, US, after they […]
The serious ransomware attack that Baltimore recently suffered has pushed the city government to make extraordinary decisions. According to ethical hacking specialists, after a long meeting government officials decided to transfer about $6 million USD from the public works fund to assist in the May ransomware attack incident recovery process. These resources will help the […]
Although legislation in various parts of the world has become much tighter on the protection of confidential information, multiple companies remain highly vulnerable to data breach incidents, affecting millions of users, as reported by experts in ethical hacking. This time the turn is for the renowned bank Capital One; according to reports, a hacker managed […]
Two severe vulnerabilities in the popular open source multimedia player VLC have recently been corrected. According to experts in web security audit, one is a buffer overflow flaw and the other is an out-of-bond write vulnerability that had been corrected as part of a European Commission-funded bug bounty program. In January, the European Union, in […]
Today, Cyber security is one of the fastest growing industry. The increasing numbers of the data breaches and cyber attacks have likewise increased the need for cyber security professionals to take defensive measures against these threats. Organizations are spending more and more on securing their data and hiring cyber security experts. They are also promoting […]
A campaign of complex denial-of-service (DoS) attacks was launched against the servers of Electrum, a popular Bitcoin wallet, reported ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. So far the exact amount that the incident has cost is still unknown, although it is estimated that the stolen assets could be worth millions […]
A 22-year-old individual has been arrested and sentenced to two years imprisonment for operating a cryptocurrency exchange platform without registration before the U.S. Treasury Department, reported ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). Jacob Burrell, a U.S. citizen living in Mexico, accepted that he did not take any action against […]
According to the authors of the book Learn ethical hacking, Microsoft paid more than $2M USD to security experts who participated in its vulnerability bounty program during 2018. Experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) report that the software company’s plans focus on extending this rewards program by implementing a series of improvements […]
According to the authors of the book Learn ethical hacking, the National Directorate of Informatics and the Israeli Population Authority are investigating an alleged hacker who, through his Twitter account, claims to have hacked the Israeli voting system to steal data of about 6 million voters three days before the legislative elections in Israel. According […]
The most recent days have been somewhat convulsed and frightening for the cryptocurrency community members. According to a group of cybersecurity and ethical hacking specialists, last week Bitcoin reached a value of a little more than $5k USD, although for some this means that the virtual asset market will eventually collapse, as they’ve been saying […]
Specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute, reported the emergence of a critical vulnerability in some of the MikroTik company routers; according to the reports, the vulnerability would allow malicious hackers to deploy denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against vulnerable devices, forcing their reboot. MikroTik is a provider of […]
According to the ethical hacking training from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), a group of researchers has discovered a new variety of fileless malware attacking mainly clients of some Banks in countries like Brazil and Thailand, using a hacking tool and at least two tools for information theft. Ethical hacking training specialists mention […]
BasBanke is a new variant of malware for Android mainly directed to users of this operating system in Brazil. According to the authors of ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, it is a banking Trojan that steals sensitive financial data, such as card numbers, card type, etc. According to the authors of ‘Learn ethical hacking’, the propagation of […]
A DNS hijacking campaign, active for at least three months, has been attacking users of the most popular online services, such as Gmail, Netflix, PayPal, among others, reported specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute. As part of the attack campaign, threat actors have compromised the clients’ […]
According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the most recent decisions of Epic Games have been so badly received by the gamer community that even some users have retaliated; such is the case of the recent hack against Fortnite official Twitter account. The reports mention that, on […]
According to the authors of ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, the fugitive programmer Julian Assange will be expelled from the Embassy of Ecuador in London in the next few hours, as declared by ‘a high-level source’. Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, has been living in the embassy since the year 2012, after the Swedish authorities tried to interrogate […]
The authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking’, along with specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), report the existence of a critical vulnerability in the Matebook laptop, developed by Huawei; according to the reports, this flaw could be exploited to take control of the compromised devices. The Chinese company has faced strong […]
The German pharmaceutical company Bayer claims to have contained a cyberattack possibly carried out by Chinese hackers. According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the company reported that it faced a possible data breach and interruptions in its regular operations. A spokesman for Bayer states that the […]
According to experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute, the Chinese company Xiaomi has corrected a security vulnerability in Guard Provider, the security app preinstalled in its latest smartphone models. According to reports, this vulnerability would have allowed threat actors to inject traffic to Guard Provider, executing arbitrary […]
Multiple counties in various U.S. states are under a massive ransomware attack, reported the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘. This time, counties of Orange, in California, and Genesee, Michigan, have been the victims of this attack campaign. A few days ago it was the turn of Albany, New York. According to the reports, […]
Ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) report the finding of a new variant of ransomware called Unnam3d; according to the reports, this malware moves the victim’s files to protected RAR files and, as a characteristic feature, the operators demand Amazon gift cards as a ransom. The malware was first […]