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Data breach at Georgia Tech university compromise millions of records

According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), students, professors and administrative staff of Georgia Tech, a university recognized internationally for its computer science program, have been victims of a data breach incident that would have compromised around 1.3 million of company records. Georgia Tech recently revealed the […]

A big beverage company suffers massive ransomware attack

A massive ransomware attack impacted the systems of Arizona Beverages, one of the largest beverage-producing companies in the United States; according to the experts of an ethical hacking institute in India, the company is still recovering from the incident, which occurred last month. The recovery process is not yet over for Arizona even though it […]

Remote code execution vulnerability in Cisco WebEx browser extensions

Ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security have reported the discovery of a new vulnerability in the Cisco WebEx browser extensions that could allow remote code execution; according to the reports, the vulnerability has already been exploited in the wild. Just a few days ago Cisco announced the launching of a […]

Critical SQL injection vulnerability in Magento; update please

Magento, an Adobe-owned platform, announced the launching of an update patch to correct some critical SQL injection vulnerabilities; according to the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, one of these vulnerabilities is really easy to exploit, plus no authentication is required to do so. Magento is one of the most used e-commerce platforms. According […]

New York City suffers massive ransomware attack against several government institutions

Last weekend the New York government announced that the city suffered a ransomware attack that managed to compromise some government administrative systems, reported ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). The attack focused almost exclusively on the Albany area, capital of New York, and affected the regular functioning of some […]

Critical vulnerability in Apache allows privilege escalation to root

According to the experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute, critical privilege escalation vulnerability in the Apache HTTP server allows users with permission to enter and run scripts get root privileges on Unix systems; according to the company, the flaw was corrected in its last update. The vulnerability […]

Saudi Arabia government hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s phone

A researcher claims that Saudi Arabia hacked the smartphone of Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, report experts International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the best ethical hacking institute. The researcher, Gavin de Becker, was hired by Bezos to determine how the tabloid National Enquirer had gained access to the CEO’s private messages. According to […]

Thousands of Kibana implementations using Elasticsearch are exposed online

Working with large amounts of data without taking the necessary security steps can pose a huge risk to any organization. According to the ethical hacking training experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), unprotected databases significantly increase the chances of a company being a victim of a data breach. For example, more than […]

Europol and its global investigation against dark web forum users

The European Union Law Enforcement Cooperation Agency (Europol) recently announced the implementation of a series of joint efforts with U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies to stop the activities of buyers and sellers of illegal merchandise and digital material in dark web platforms, mentioned the ethical hacking training experts from the International Institute of Cyber […]

Toyota suffers second data breach in the last month

According to the ethical hacking training specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), the Japanese car company Toyota has suffered its second data breach of the last four weeks. Although, as the ethical hacking training experts reported, the first incident occurred at the Toyota Australia facility, the latest data breach has been reported […]

Cryptocurrency exchange platform in Singapore gets hacked

Experts from the best ethical hacking institute, jointly with the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) report an alleged hack against DragonEx, a Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange platform. According to the first investigations, the losses amount is about $6M USD. At first, some DragonEx officials released the news through a Telegram chat group, highlighting that the […]

Thousands of Huawei routers are exposed to cyberattacks

In the year 2013, an Internet service provider warned Huawei about a security vulnerability in all of its domestic use routers. According to ethical hacking training experts from the IICS, the Chinese company updated only two of the models that used the compromised firmware. Currently, Huawei devices are still being used by thousands of consumers […]

Researchers Find 36 security vulnerabilities in LTE standard

Each new research conducted by experts from the best ethical hacking Institute and specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) shows new security flaws in communication standards such as LTE, used for high-speed data transmission. On this occasion, the investigation has thrown 36 new vulnerabilities in LTE that, if exploited, would allow a […]

Russia sends cybersecurity team to Venezuela for protection against U.S. hackers

U.S. government intelligence reports claim that Russia has sent a team of armed cybersecurity experts to Venezuela to support President Nicolas Maduro regime. According to the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, two Russian military aircraft landed in Caracas on the morning of last Saturday; aboard the planes were traveling about one hundred soldiers […]

Ransomware attack against Norsk Hydro has cost $40M USD

As reported by the authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘, the company Norsk Hydro had to stop part of its production on March 19 and change multiple units to manual operation after a group of hackers blocked their systems using a ransomware attack. Although the company was able to continue to operate its primary […]

Apple fixes critical vulnerabilities in its latest iOS update

Apple just launched iOS 12.2, updating its operating system to correct a total of 51 security vulnerabilities that impacted on iPhone 5s and later models, iPad Air and later models and iPod Touch sixth generation, reported experts from the best ethical hacking institute, besides the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS). As reported, most of […]