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Short Bytes: Martin Gottesfeld, the alleged Anonymous hacker responsible for 2014’s hacking attack at Boston Children’s Hospital, has been arrested by the FBI. Martin’s co-workers and relatives contacted the security agency after he went missing, only to be rescued by a Disney Cruise ship. The FBI has arrested a man named Martin Gottesfeld in connection with […]
Short Bytes: The researchers from Tel Aviv University and Technion have found a way to steal encryption keys from “safe” air-gapped machines. The attack was launched from another room and the target was completely offline. Known as side-channel attack, it doesn’t try to break the encryption by exploiting encryption algorithm weakness or brute force attack. Instead, researchers captured the […]
Short Bytes: When we visit a hospital, we put our complete trust in our doctor and the medical equipment that he/she uses. With advancement in technology, these equipment have become more complex and interconnected. Sadly, ensuring standard cybersecurity measures is not a top priority of the medical professionals. This fact was recently outlined by a […]
Image: NTI Nuclear Security Index Short Bytes: Today, we are at a crossroads on nuclear security and the emerging threats in the form of cyber attacks and nuclear terrorism. Bur, our nuclear plants have failed to add necessary security measures to handle the cyber threats and potential security breaches. Based upon the two latest security […]
Short Bytes: From an IP address associated with 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32c3) taking place in Germany, some unknown hackers sent a poetic message to all the IPv4 addresses on the Internet who left with their web servers port open. Later, the hackers said that they didn’t mean to harm anybody and wished to remind […]
Short Bytes: An Indian hacking collective named Indian Black Hats has defaced multiple Pakistani websites. This Kerala-based group has dedicated the attack to the little daughter of a Pathankot terror attack martyr. The group told fossBytes, “Harming is not our aim..but if anyone pick their eyes on our mother India..we stand for it”. In response to Pathankot terror […]
Last month, it was revealed that Juniper Networks’ routers/firewalls were hacked. It was reported that a backdoor was implanted in the operating system of their routers/firewalls and that attackers could listen in on all encrypted communication. There are now fears that all confidential communications by U.S. government agencies and officials could have been compromised over […]
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Short Bytes: They got Livestream hacked! The popular live streaming platform Livestream has asked its users to reset the password through a mail. However, Livestream says that the database might have been breached but the hacker might not have access to confidential data of its customers. The popular live video streaming platform Livestream has announced that […]
Imagine this. Your girlfriend needs to type a very important report for her Accounting class but she forgot the password to her MacBook Pro. She tries and tries, but keeps getting the password wrong. She asks her boyfriend if he can “hack” into her laptop. He actually knows how to do this so he breaks […]
Image: fossBytes Short Bytes: Anonymous is known for taking up different causes and defacing the offensive websites. However, this time, the hacktivist group has hacked the European Space Agency website domains. Justifying the act, Anonymous has called it a hack that was carried out just for fun. The hacktivist collective Anonymous has just released the database […]
An article published by The Guardian in 2011 on the topic Cybercrime: is it out of control? received a nasty response from a hacker who inserted a malicious URL inside one of the syndicated link embedments in the article. The article published by the website was headlined “Cybercrime: Is it out of Control?” and the hacker […]
Short Bytes: In the past, Pakistani and India cyber hackers have been targeting each other by hacking different government websites. In the latest development, India-based hacking agencies have defaced some government and defense websites of Pakistan. In the recent hacking attacks by the India-based hacking agencies, some government and defense websites of Pakistan have been attacked. […]
The online hacktivist group Anonymous has declared a “total war” against the terrorist group and so-called Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) group. To keep up with their words, the hacktivists have exposed a list of hundreds of Twitter users allegedly sympathizing or having a soft corner for the group and helping it to spread its ideology. Anonymous has also […]
Egyptian Hacker Uses njRAT Codebase to Create KillerRat — The RAT goes completely hidden upon scanning. A new Remote Access Trojan/RAT has been created by an Egyptian hacker, which is so powerful that it lets hackers run their operations with advanced spying powers and without getting identified. The most interesting is that the old structure […]
The online hacktivist group Anonymous has announced a new series of cyber attacks against the ISIS/ISIL terrorist group. This Friday, terrorists targeted seven different locations in Paris including a Rock band “Eagles of Death Metal” concert, a café and outside a stadium where there was a football match between Germany and France. The terrorist group […]
A telephone tower-like device (IMSI-catcher) can be used for recording phone calls from the latest versions of Samsung Galaxy, demonstrated by two German researchers. IMSI-catchers are mostly used in laboratories for testing purposes, but they can be bought by anyone who wishes to have one. So, what happens is anyone having these catchers can mimic […]
Newsweek has revealed that Spotify (One of the giants of the Music industry) faced a hacking attack last week and thousands of email ids and passwords were leaked by hackers. Newsweek interacted within 9 of the users whose accounts were leaked and posted publicly on 2nd November. Out of those 9 users, a user claimed […]
Short Bytes: A new discovery at the PacSec Conference at Tokyo unveiled a great threat prevailing in the Android OS that hands over all your valuable data and full control of your device to the hackers with just a click. Read more to know about this vulnerability in detail. Security researchers have discovered a flaw […]
Cyber cooks breached the security of British parliament’s secure network and hacked into many of its computer systems. The hack allowed the hackers to leak several confidential documents in relation to MP for NewCastle upon Tyne Central, Chi Onwurah and her employees. This is one of the first successful attacks on the parliament’s secure network […]
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 […]