Hacking

Expert found a way to bypass Windows UAC by mocking trusted Directory

David Wells, a security expert from Tenable, devised a method to bypass Windows’ User Account Control (UAC) by spoofing the…

7 years ago

Hacking the hackers – IOT botnet author adds his own backdoor on top of a ZTE router backdoor

The author of an IoT botnet is distributing a backdoor script for ZTE routers that also includes his own backdoor…

7 years ago

A critical flaw in GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress exploited in the wild

A critical security vulnerability affects a GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress has been already exploited in the wild to take…

7 years ago

Linux Cryptocurrency miner leverages rootkit to avoid detection

Researchers from Trend Micro spotted a new cryptocurrency miner that leverages a rootkit component to hide its presence on the…

7 years ago

VPN vs. proxy: which is better to stay anonymous online?

Most people prefer using proxies over VPN services because they are easy to use and mostly available for free, but…

7 years ago

Nginx server security flaws expose more than a million of servers to DoS attacks

Nginx developers released security updates to address several denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities affecting the nginx web server. nginx is an HTTP and reverse proxy server,…

7 years ago

VMware releases security patches for a critical virtual machine escape flaw

VMware released security patches for a critical virtual machine (VM) escape vulnerability that was recently discovered at a Chinese hacking…

7 years ago

Data from ‘almost all’ Pakistani banks stolen, Pakistani debit card details surface on the dark web

According to the head of the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing.almost all Pakistani banks were affected by a recent…

7 years ago

BCMPUPnP_Hunter Botnet infected 400k routers to turn them in email spammers

Security researchers at 360 Netlab have discovered a new spam botnet, dubbed BCMPUPnP_Hunter, that likely already infected around 400,000 machines to date.…

7 years ago

689,272 plaintext records of Amex India customers exposed online

Records associated with 689,272 plaintext records Amex India customers were exposed online via unsecured MongoDB server. Personal details of nearly…

7 years ago

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