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A Dutch politician could be living his last days at large, as he is facing a sentence of up to three years in prison for a hacking scandal. According to information security specialists, the politician aspiring faces charges for having compromised hundreds of iCloud accounts. Mitchel Van der K, a marketing worker nominated for the […]
HackerOne is one of the most important vulnerability reporting platforms, so it has access to large amounts of information, although sometimes that information can be exposed. According to ethical hacking specialists, the platform had to pay more than $20k USD after mistakenly handing over improper access to an external actor, as per a report published […]
Elliot Gunton, a UK resident, was first convicted at the age of 16 for breaching the UK telecom giant TalkTalk. He was accused of hacking accounts of 150,000 customers and snooping on the financial details of users. Interestingly, TalkTalk was fined £400,00 for failing to put enough security measures for protecting user data and making […]
There were many data breach 2016. It seemed like there was a new one in the news every other week during that year. From a cybersecurity perspective, it was one of the biggest years of breaches. It is interesting to note, though, that 95% of all data breach 2016 was comprised of three industries: technology […]
The incident took place in 2014 in which father of a French journalist died of a heart attack soon after prank call made by the hacker. Ulcan, an infamous hacker, could possibly be extradited to France as on Tuesday French prosecutors have officially requested Israeli authorities to let him stand trial in France. The 36-year […]
A group of hackers failed to deploy security mechanisms to secure the storage where they store hacked accounts and another hacker group hacked it. The story is indeed funny and real. Infamous forum named OGUSERS which is popular amongst hackers for obtaining “OG” Instagram, Twitter usernames, hacked accounts of Domino’s Pizza, Steam, PlayStation Network, and […]
According to ZDNet, a hacker by the name Gnosticplayers reveals to them in February about wanting to put up data of over one billion users for sale. ZDNet finds that the hacker is close to achieving this target after having released nearly 65.5 million records last week. So any soon he will reach that magic […]
Julian Assange’s lawyers want to see if hacking is protected by the First Amendment. London’s Metropolitan Police arrested Assange on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy, where he’d been granted asylum for seven years. The US government wants to extradite Assange over hacking charges. But Assange’s lawyers have a bigger concern. His lawyers argued that the […]
As a precaution to the risk of getting its election hacked, Australia has to create a special task force that will be tasked to inspect and prevent security issues come election time. This proposal is announced by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters to the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). Titled “Report on the Conduct […]
Sources close to the best ethical hacking institute and the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS) have confirmed that Kathryn Schrader, Gwinnett County Superior Court judge, decided to hire a private investigator to find out if anyone had hacked into her personal computer. The private investigator that the judge hired, along with a digital forensics […]
Criminals have stolen data of Titan Manufacturing and Distributing customers for almost a whole year Malicious hacker groups are attacking manufacturing companies, as reported by cybersecurity specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Recently it has been revealed that hackers attacked the company Titan Manufacturing and Distribution, compromising their computer systems to extract payment […]
The suspect claimed to be annoyed by recent statements by some of those involved in leaking information According to reports of cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, a 20-year-old man has confessed to being the author of the cyberattack against over a hundred German politicians, a campaign in which […]
Event-stream Node.js module called is used in millions of web applications, including BitPay’s open-source bitcoin wallet, Copay. This module was reportedly compromised thanks to the laziness, and incompetence of the engineer. A hacker gained access to a popular JavaScript library and injected malicious code that steals Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash funds stored in BitPay’s Copay wallet apps. The researcher identified this malicious […]
Computer security vulnerabilities are a threat that has spawned a booming industry, between the heightened global focus on security, and the proliferation of high-profile computer viruses and worms that have had major impacts worldwide, the time is right to be in the computer security business. When one thinks about who benefits from security problems, typically […]
A Tesla Model S was stolen recently in Essex, England after a pair of thieves hacked the car’s high-tech keyless entry system. The whole incident, however, got recorded on the owner’s security cameras. The thieves had used a method called “relay attack”, exploiting a vulnerability in the car’s PKE (Passive Keyless Entry) system. PKE, unlike […]
The U.S. has charged and sanctioned a North Korean hacker who is accused of being responsible for the infamous WannaCry Cyberattacks of 2017 and the 2014 cyberassault on Sony Corp. The man named Park Jin Kyok who is the part of the Lazarus Group, a team of hackers, has been sanctioned under the strategy devised […]
The flaw was found in a completely updated system A cyber security organization researcher has publicly disclosed the details about new zero-day vulnerability present in Microsoft’s Windows operating system that could help a local user or malicious programmer gain system privileges on the targeted machine. It was also confirmed that the zero-day vulnerability was found on a […]
A security researcher has demonstrated, at the recent Def Con security conference, that a Mac computer running Apple’s High Sierra operating system can be very easily hacked by simply tweaking two lines of the code. This revelation was made by Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker, who is at present the Chief Research Officer at Digita […]
As the digital world continues to turn, the risk of cyberattack is always on the horizon. And the arrival of the 2018 FIFA World Cup has served up more than just friendly competition—it’s created an excellent platform for hackers looking to target unsuspecting fans. As game-goers engage in all sorts of mobile transactions, from online […]
Are hackers smarter and more creative than cyber guardians? This is becoming the eternal question of the digital age. While we would like to think the protection of customer passwords and personal credentials is the job of IT experts, reports of recent data breaches now suggest we are losing the battle against online criminals. The situation […]
As we begin to discuss the different phases of a cyber attack, let’s not forget that things are changing drastically as regards the cyber security industry. Hacks today are being executed in a very different way and hackers are resorting to using all kinds of innovative techniques. If you examine the recent attacks that targeted […]