Monthly Archives: January 2016
ISIS offers hackers up to $10,000 to hack govt websites
The ISIS radical group is trying to infiltrate the Indian hacking community by offering money to hack government websites. 30,000 people on social media have been already contacted by the […]
Where’s the Breach? or would you like fraud with that burger?
Wendy’s (NASDAQ:WEN), the third largest fast-food chain in the world is probing a breach on their networks with loss of personally identifiable information (PII) according to sources. Krebs reports that […]
Israeli Public Utility Authority hit by a severe cyber attack
The Israeli Public Utility Authority is suffering one of the largest cyber attack that the country has experienced, Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday. The Israel’s Minister of Infrastructure, […]
Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams
Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams, including the one that is monitoring your kids while sleeping. The explosion of the paradigm of the Internet of things has dramatically […]
Potentially backdoored AMX equipment being used by US President Obama and US Military
Experts from the security firm SEC Consult discovered a backdoor in the AMX equipment being used by US President Obama and the US Military. AMX is a company that supplies […]
A new archive of US voting records appeared on the Dark Web
A new archive containing alleged voting records of millions of US citizens is available on a hidden service on the dark web. Joseph Fox from Motherboard discovered alleged voting records […]
Ukraine blames Russia of cyber attacks against the Boryspil airport
Ukrainian Government is accusing Russia of organizing hacker attacks against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine are […]
Senior Bitcoin developer expects a failure of the currency
Mike Hearn explains that the fundamentals are broken and the price the long term trend should probably be downwards. Mike Hearn, a senior Bitcoin developer explained the failure of the […]
Law enforcement arrested operators behind the MegalodonHTTP Botnet
The operators behind the MegalodonHTTP botnet have been arrested in an international joint effort of law enforcement and a private security firm. In December, Norway law enforcement arrested five people […]
Teen hacker Cracka owned head of US intelligence James Clapper
Head of US intelligence James Clapper owned by the same hacker who broke into CIA director Brennan’s personal email account. According to Motherboard, a hacker associated with the “Crackas With Attitude” group […]
The German intelligence agency BND resumed surveillance activities with the NSA support
According to the German media the German intelligence agency BND has resumed the monitoring activities conducted in a joint effort with the US NSA. It seems that the German government […]
Juniper will drop a function alleged developed by the NSA for surveillance
Juniper Networks announced on Friday it would stop using the security code that experts believe was developed by NSA for surveillance purpose. The Juniper Networks company announced last week it […]
RSA® Conference Ignites Security Industry Discussion and Further Education Initiatives in 2016
RSA® Conference, the world’s leading information security conferences and expositions, once again sets the stage for the world to talk security at San Francisco’s Moscone Center Feb. 29-March 4, 2016. […]
iSight Partners says the Sandworm APT is involved Ukrainian power outage
The Russian Sandworm APT group if the first suspect for the Ukrainian power outage, states experts at eiSight Partners. According to a report published by experts at eiSight Partners the cyber attack against […]
Time Warner Cable security breach may have exposed 320K customers
The TV cable and Internet service provider Time Warner Cable is warning customers their emails and passwords may have been exposed. Nearly 320,000 of the TV cable and Internet service provider […]
Zerodium offers $100,000 for bypass Flash Player heap isolation
The zero-day exploit broker Zerodium is offering up to $100,000 to security experts who can provide an exploit for bypassing the Flash heap isolation. Once again, the zero-day exploit trader Zerodium […]
Hackers cause power outage with malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act?
Hackers cause power outage with the BlackEnergy malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act? Cyber security of ICS e SCADA systems in the critical infrastructure is essential, these components are […]
Mac OS X is the software with most vulnerabilities in 2015
According to data provided by the CVE Details Apple Mac OS X is the software with the highest number of vulnerabilities in 2015. Which is the software with the greatest […]
Discovered a new DB containing more than 56 million records of US Voters
A second misconfigured database has been discovered by Chris Vickery containing data of US voters, including 19 million profiles with private information on religion, gun ownership and more. A couple […]
Microsoft maintains the recovery key of your new PC
If you login to Windows 10 using your Microsoft account you have to know that your computer automatically uploaded a copy of your recovery key. New Windows computers implement a built-in […]
The Ramnit Botnet is back after the law enforcement takedown
The Ramnit botnet that has been disrupted by European law enforcement in February is back and it’s targeting online banking worldwide. Security researchers at IBM Security have discovered a new […]