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Defcon is the most important event for the DIY hacking community and this year too, the conference was held in the same spirit. We got to learn about a variety of novel hacking ideas such as the hacking of Voting Machines, hacking airborne drones, hijacking phone numbers and Internet connected car wash system etc. However, […]
Gal Beniamini, a Google Project Zero researcher has found some critical vulnerabilities including a remote code execution in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi system-on-chip (SoC) which if exploited can allow attackers to compromise smartphone devices like iPhone, Samsung, and Google Nexus. Broadcom’s Wi-Fi chips are used in a number of renowned devices and any vulnerability makes millions of smartphones vulnerable including Samsung’s […]
Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher for Google, has managed to find yet another flaw in the LastPass password manager. Ormandy has reported several critical security flaws in the password manager during the past week, and this weekend he has managed to discover a new one. “I had an epiphany in the shower this morning and […]
CheckPoint, an Israeli security firm, unveiled this Wednesday a security flaw in encrypted messages that could affect the web version of WhatsApp and Telegram. The platforms were alerted about the vulnerability on March 8th and have already fixed the issue in both messengers by changing the file upload validation protocols to protect against the attack. The flaw […]
Tracking mobile phones has become relatively easier since the advent of smartphones and wireless connectivity as these devices become traceable when they move across public Wi-Fi networks. MAC address randomization is a technique that is used to secure mobile devices from being traced. What MAC does is it replaces the unique ID that makes a […]
The NextGen gallery has been plagued with a severe security flaw for the second time in consecutive years, and this time it is even worse. A web security firm- Sucuri discovered that the NextGen gallery for WordPress (WP) is affected by a severe SQL injection vulnerability and attackers can access the targeted website’s database within […]
Filippo Valsorda, a researcher from Cloudflare, recently discovered a bug in F5’s BIG-IP Networks. The flaw has been dubbed as Ticketbleed, keeping in mind its similarity with another such bug, Heartbleed. How does Ticketbleed work? Ticketbleed is a vulnerability in the BIG-IP SSL networks that allows for SSL sessions to be leaked which are as large as 31 bytes. This happens due to the […]
WordPress is one of the most used content management system (CMS) in the world. So when there is a security flaw in its system, it affects millions of users on the Internet. That is exactly what has been discovered by security researchers at Sucuri, an Internet security company which revealed that WordPress websites are vulnerable […]
Security flaws are plaguing devices one-by-one and network routers are the latest to bear the brunt of such flaws as lately, security flaws in routers are being exploited by attackers with extreme enthusiasm. Their aim is to exploit the flaws and launch massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) DDoS attacks for bombarding networks with traffic and shutting the […]
Security Researchers Discover AtomBombing — An Injection Code that Infects Multiple Processes in Windows leading to malware installation. Ensilo’s security researchers have identified a unique method that allows injection of malicious code into multiple processes without getting identified by any endpoint security system or antivirus software. This method has been labeled as AtomBombing It has […]
For the Past 9 Years, Linux Kernel has been Plagued with Dirty Cow – A Privilege-Escalation Bug Red Hat, the leading open source software development firm, has revealed that Linux Kernel has been infected with a serious bug for the past 9 years. The bug has been dubbed as Dirty Cow. It is deemed dangerous […]
Researchers at Cisco Talos have discovered a dangerous zero-day vulnerability in the OpenJPEG JPEG 2000 codec. The flaw can allow attackers to conduct remote code execution on systems. OpenJPEG is a JPEG 2000 codec, which is programmed in C language while the software particularly was developed to popularize JPEG 2000. The JPEG 2000 is an […]
Everyone wants to know how to hack a Facebook page or an account but no one wants to do the hard work — Here’s an Indian hacker who found a critical security flaw in Facebook Business Manager allowing him to hack any Facebook page within 10 seconds. Arun Sureshkumar, an Indian IT security researcher exposed a critical […]
A hacker from California has revealed a trick which could allow him to hack into a user’s Facebook account and gain complete access to it. Learning to hack a Facebook account is one of the first things people want to learn. Many try their hand at this to gain complete access to someone’s Facebook profile. […]
A couple of days ago researchers exposed a Linux flaw allowing hackers to hijack Internet traffic — Now it’s been discovered that the flaw also affects 80% of Android devices! The university of California, Riverside researchers along with the US Army Research Lab has recently announced the presence of a TCP vulnerability in Linux based […]
An IT security firm CheckPoint has discovered a set of critical security flaws in several Android devices affecting 900 million users worldwide. Dubbed QuadRooter by the research team, these security flaws can provide an attacker full access to any smartphone that is built using Qualcomm chipsets. Currently, Qualcomm processors are being used in 900 million Android devices. Qualcomm is the world’s […]
Hackers show how easy it is for attackers to hack Samsung Pay and make Fraudulent Transactions! The token-based payment system developed by Samsung called Samsung Pay is vulnerable to credit fraud as hackers can use the tokens generated to carry out transactions remotely, ZDNet reports. Samsung Pay is a magnetic-based contactless system that was created in order to […]
Telegram users are vulnerable to attacks due to programming error allowing anyone to send invisible and over-sized messages on their devices! Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging service which allows users to send encrypted messages on platforms like (Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Ubuntu Touch) and desktop systems (Windows, OS X, Linux). The service has 100 million […]
You Would be Giving open Invitation to Hackers for Following you by Using Waze. Waze is a well-known and widely used navigation app developed and owned by Google. It is in use by literally million of drivers because it helps in identifying the most appropriate, safe and fastest route to any destination. However, according to the […]
In various Samsung Galaxy devices, it is possible to send AT commands through USB cables — The most startling fact is that it is possible even if the devices are locked You might be thinking that it is not a serious issue. But think again… don’t we leave our phones on our desks thinking that […]
Old is gold for sure but in this case old is bad and bold Google’s security researcher Dan Kaminsky along with Redhat Linux has identified a flaw in “glibc” also known as the Gnu C standard library. This flaw isn’t a new one as Kaminsky reported that it has “been around for quite some time,” […]