Showing posts with label cyber attack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyber attack. Show all posts
Wednesday, 30 October 2013

iOS apps vulnerable to HTTP Request Hijacking attacks over WiFi

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Security researchers Adi Sharabani and Yair Amit  have disclosed details about a widespread vulnerability in iOS apps, that could ...
Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Hackers breach PureVPN website by exploiting a zero-day WHMCS vulnerability

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Customers of the Virtual Private network provider "PureVPN" over the weekend started receiving a fake email claiming to be from t...
Tuesday, 15 October 2013

Vulnerability in WhatsApp allows decrypting user messages

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A serious vulnerability in WhatsApp allows anyone who is able to eavesdrop on WhatsApp connection to decrypt users' messages. ...

Antivirus firm ESET and BitDefender website defaced by Pro-Palestinian Hackers

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A pro-Palestinian hacktivist group ' KDMS Team ', who recently managed to briefly hijack the Metasploit website of security fi...
Friday, 4 October 2013

Silk Road taken down by FBI

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Notorious online marketplace "Silk Road" has been taken down by the FBI and the owner "Ross Ulbricht" a.k.a (Dread Pira...
Thursday, 3 October 2013

Jordan's PM's website hacked by Anonymous hacktivist

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Anonymous hacktivists have hacked into official website of Jordan's Prime ministry in a protest against raising taxes and prices.  T...

FBI demands SSL Keys from Secure-Email provider Lavabit in Espionage probe

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During the summer, The Secure email provider 'Lavabit' and preferred service for PRISM leaker  Edward Snowden  decided to shut d...
Wednesday, 2 October 2013

16-Year School boy arrested for World's biggest cyber attack ever

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16-Year-Old Teenager has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the World's biggest DDoS attacks against the Dutch anti-spa...
Saturday, 7 September 2013

Researchers Discover 'Hesperbot' - A New and Potent Banking Trojan

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  Security firm ESET has discovered a new and effective banking trojan, targeting online banking users and designed to beat the ...

Hacking Facebook to delete any account; Facebook again refuses to pay Bounty

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In the past few days, Facebook refused to pay bounty to Khalil Shreateh, the security researcher who used the bug he discovered ...

Secunia launches the next generation of Complete Patch Management: The Secunia CSI 7.0

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Cybercrime costs organizations millions of dollars and to protect business from the consequences of security breaches, vulnerabil...
Friday, 6 September 2013

Fake 'Grand Theft Auto V' Torrent Spreads Malware

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Excitement continues .. Rockstar Games schedule the release of latest The Grand Theft Auto series, GTA 5  on September 17, but C...

Code-sharing site GitHub now offers two-factor authentication to its users

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Code repository GitHub  offers two-factor authentication to beef up security around its users’ accounts. Github is a coding repositor...
Saturday, 31 August 2013

Fear of NSA PRISM : Indian Government may ban US email services for official communication

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The Indian Government is planning to ban the use of US based email services like Gmail for official communications to increase the sec...
Thursday, 29 August 2013

China hit by DDoS attack causes Internet inaccessible for hours

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During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the .cn domain slow...

FBI used Anonymous to attack foreign government systems, claims jailed hacker Hammond

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Sentencing for former LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur , better known as " Sabu " , has again been delayed. Monsegur p...

Java 6 vulnerable to #0day exploit; added to Neutrino exploit kit

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Hackers are using a new exploit for a bug in the out-of-date but popular Java 6 platform to attack victims, and has been added to a co...
Monday, 26 August 2013

Pinterest Exploit exposes user information of 70 Million accounts

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Security researcher Dan Melamed has found a serious Pinterest Exploit that exposed user's information of over 70 Million accounts....
Sunday, 25 August 2013

Hacker reported vulnerability in Kaspersky website, Demonstrated malware spreading technique

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The cyber Security Analyst  'Ebrahim Hegazy' (@Zigoo0) Consultant at Q-CERT has found an " Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerabili...