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Security Giant Entrust Hacked – Attackers Stole Data From Internal Systems

Entrust, a big name in digital security, announced recently on its website that it has been attacked by hackers. During this attack, hackers breached their firewalls and stole data from their internal systems through breaches in their network. It is an online trust and identity management company specializing in the deployment and management of online […]

T-Mobile Hacked – Hackers Gained Access to Prepaid Customers Data

American telecommunications giant T-Mobile Anoununced a data breach on its network, through which attackers gained access to a prepaid customer’s data. T-Mobile US provides wireless voice, messaging, and data services in the United States. The company operates the third largest wireless network in the U.S market with over 84.2 million customers and annual revenues of […]

OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprint Scanner Hacked In a Minutes Using a Fake Fingerprint

OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprint Scanner hacked within minutes using Fake Fingerprint that can be created using hot-glue due to inadequate security that is implemented in the OnePlus 7 Pro Fingerprinting unlock Feature. OnePlus, is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer based in  Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and it is one of the leading Smartphone manufacturers in the world. […]

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 […]

500px Hacked – Attackers Stolen 14.8 Million Users Personal Data

500px , an online photography community suffering a massive data breach that leaked 14.8 million users personal information by cybercriminals. 500px global network for photographers and the platform managing around 16 million users who get paid for their work and skills. Security experts learned this security incident in July 2018 when an unauthorized party breaking […]

500px’s Data Breach, Happening Since July 2018

500px, the popular photography app has forced all its users to reset their user passwords in a deliberate attempt to secure the remaining areas of their database. The leak included a portion of their users, which released to the unknown 3rd parties. “On February 8, 2019, our engineering team became aware of a potential security […]

What We Currently Know About Quora.com’s 100 Million User Account Breach?

Quora.com, a mainstream Q&A site is the latest victim of a massive security breach which affected an estimated 100 million user accounts. According to the initial report, the following records have been stolen from the site’s database: Hashed and salted passwords Email addresses Full names Linked network information (for those using Quora using their Facebook/Gmail […]

Most Important Steps to Prevent Your Organization From Identity Theft – Detailed Explanation

Identity theft by Identity Thief is the ponder utilization of another person’s character, it is a genuine wrongdoing(a serious crime). Identity Thief utilizes data about anybody without their consent. They could utilize name and address; Visa or financial balance numbers; Social Security number and substantially other valuable data. When data fraud happens, it is difficult to recover the […]

FIFA is hacked… Once again

The organization has admitted that much of its information was leaked by an attacker still unknown The International Football Federation Association (FIFA), the governing body of football worldwide, admitted that, once again, has suffered a security incident, as reported by specialists in digital forensics and information security from the International Institute of Cyber Security. The first hacking […]

Over 80k messages of hacked Facebook accounts for sale

Hackers seem to have compromised and posted private messages from at least 81k Facebook user accounts About 81k leaked Facebook messages are on sale in various hacking forums and web ads, according to reports of information security and digital forensics experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security. As if it was not enough, the perpetrators claim […]

Weapons controlling systems of the US Army could be easily hacked

A government report has concluded that some of the most advanced weapons in the US military arsenal can be hacked with very basic tools The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has disclosed a report of experts in digital forensics that verifies critical vulnerabilities in almost every system that controls weapons tested by the American military […]

Has your Twitter account been hacked?

How to do a security check on this social network Have you ever wondered if someone has accessed your Twitter account in an illegitimate way? Do you know when and how it could have happened? Well, now Twitter can help you to find out if your account is safe from hackers. First it was Google and Facebook; […]

Spyware trading company gets hacked

A hacker broke into the servers of TheTruthSpy, one of the most recognized stalkerware companies A company dedicated to selling spyware that directs its advertising specifically to domestic abusers has been hacked, as reported by cyber security organization specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. The hacker, who calls himself L.M., revealed to a digital media […]

Pennsylvania Birth Certificate System hacked

Further reports suggest no records were stolen The Pennsylvania Department of Health’s birth certificate system was closed for nearly a week last month after someone hacked into an internal website, although the attacker apparently did not subtracted or modify citizens’ records, as reported by experts in enterprise data protection services. The investigation is now underway, said the spokesman […]

Web Hosting Company Domainfactory Hacked – Customers Sensitive Personal Data Leaked

Web hosting company Domainfactory owned support forum has been compromised and hackers leaked personal sensitive data by breaking the customer database. A stranger who have shared internal data of several customers as a proof and confirmed the data belonged to Domainfactory. Domainfactory is a German hosting company which is owned by GoDaddy since 2016 and this breach Officially […]

SINGAPORE ISP LEAVES 1,000 ROUTERS OPEN TO ATTACK

Southeast Asian telcom giant Singapore Telecommunications Limited left approximately 1,000 customer routers wide open to a potential attack via an unprotected port. The flub occurred after the region’s largest ISP conducted remote maintenance on affected routers and failed to secure equipment when the work was complete, according to NewSky Security. “The root cause was that […]

The Congressional California debate hacked to display porn

The debate of the First Congressional District of California, transmitted by an online forum, was hacked by unknown malicious actors, after the statements of the participants Lewis Elbinger of Green Party and Lewis Elbinger of the Democratic Party. This debate, organized by the Independent Like the North State group on Thursday night, was being broadcast […]

Drupal websites, including government sites have been hacked to extract cryptocurrencies

Vulnerability in Drupal CMS turned popular websites into Monero Mining Platform. The criptockacking is becoming a plague that affects consumers around the world, and what are even worse, experts do not know how to deal with the situation. According to an investigation carried out by the information security professional Troo Mursch about the defective packages, more than […]

150000 Drupal websites got hacked by this new vulnerability

The Drupal security team has fixed another Drupal remote code execution vulnerability, which suggests users to implement the updates offered immediately as the flaw is being exploited actively in the wild. The experts in information security comment that the vulnerability (CVE-2018-7602) affects versions 7.x and 8.x of Drupal. Users should update to v7.59 and 8.5.3 as soon […]

Vevo’s channel hacked, YouTube safe and sound

YouTube make it very clear that it didn’t suffer a hack, Vevo did. People began noticing early this morning that music videos from some of the most popular artists in the world, (including Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito,” the most-watched video on YouTube) on Vevo were taken down. The videos were replaced with messages from hackers, and […]