A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE accessing to the database. A Pakistani hacker named ‘H4x0r HuSsY’ has successfully compromised the official Forum of the popular Linux OS openSUSE. The new shocking hack is shaking the IT security community, a few days after the […]
The UK based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers. The UK-based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, the company admitted that its servers were compromised and sensitive financial data of more than 93,000 customers have been stolen. This means that […]
Barnaby Jack is dead of an accidental drug overdose according the results provided by the San Francisco’s medical examiner’s office. Who or what killed Barnaby Jack? The answer is overdosing on drugs according to the results of the autopsy conducted by the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday. Barnaby Jack was a famous hacker, […]
The French hacker Eloi Vanderbeken discovered the presence of a backdoor in principal models of routers including Netgear, Linksys and Cisco. The presence of a backdoor in the commercial routers it is no more a surprise, we found flawed firmware in the popular D-Link in the past and now it seem that a similar problem […]
Security researchers at Symantec have spotted a series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection DDoS attacks during the Christmas Holidays. DDoS attacks are very simple methods of offence that could cause serious problems to targeted systems, behind the word DDoS there are numerous techniques that could be exploited by attackers to reach their goals. Last […]
Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk […]
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) have compromised Skype ‘s Twitter account and blog to protest against the support provided to NSA surveillance programme. Syrian Electronic Army has conducted first hack of 2014 hitting Skype, the group of hackers want to remind us that nothing is secure and that netizens will never accept the monitoring of […]
Leaked documents shared by Der Spiegel show how NSA spyware codenamed DROPOUTJEEP can spy on every Apple iPhone. Apple denies any claim. Users buy the iPhone, NSA controls them. This is not a slogan for the last Apple advertising, it is the uncomfortable truth revealed by another set of NSA documents leaked by Snowden and […]
The hardware hacker Bunnie Huang presented at the Chaos Compute Club Congress how to exploit SD cards microcontrolled for malicious purposes. How is it possible to exploit SD Card, USB stick and other mobile devices for hacking? Another interesting hack was presented at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), in Hamburg, Germany, while yesterday I’ve published a […]
Two German researchers at the last Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg revealed how cyber thieves steal money from ATMs win infected USB Sticks. Cyber criminals are exploiting new techniques to attack ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) infecting the devices with specifically crafted malware. Security researchers discovered a new series of attacks against ATMs, the criminals cut […]