Two new Point of Sale malware targeted on Small and Medium Business in the...
Two new malwares that affect point of sale (PoS) machines have been detected by the researchers at Trend Micro. The malware have been affecting small and medium sized businesses or SMBs, primarily in...
View ArticleSmartphone browsers can deliver powerful DDoS attack with 4.5billion requests...
One of the most malicious attacks that can ever be launched on a website is being flooded with multiple requests that it cannot handle, otherwise known as DDoS’es. According to internet security...
View Article50 million users users impacted by WINRAR bug
On 28th September 2015, a vulnerability was detected in WinRAR SFX v5.21. It is the latest version of WinRAR, a commonly used file compression tool. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability and...
View ArticleAn exploit can completely bypasses Mac’s malware Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper is the security feature of Mac OS X that protects users from malicious applications and code execution on their Mac computers. It warns Mac users from installing unsigned apps or the ones...
View ArticleThousands of medical systems are exposed to widespread cyber-attacks – Derbycon
Recent reports presented by Scott Erven and Mark Collao at Derbycon have revealed that thousands of medical systems are exposed to widespread cyber-attacks. The researchers reported that a giant U.S....
View ArticleTrading firm Scottrade hacked, loses information of 4.6 million customers
St. Louise-based Scottrade Inc. has sent out an email to its clients informing them of a recent cyber -attack that affected their systems. The company has revealed that they were alerted of the breach...
View ArticleYiSpecter malware can infect non Jailbroken iOS devices
Palo Alto Networks has detected a malware capable of attacking even those non-jailbroken iOS devices. The researchers have named the malware as YiSpecter. It follows unique methods that involves...
View ArticleMore than 20 countries were infected with adware mobile malware – Kemoge
In September, researchers at FireEye Labs discovered a group of malicious adware created by a company based in China and Singapore called NGE Mobi/Xinyinhe. On October 7, FireEye detected a similar...
View ArticleCredentials of 13 million users breached from 000Webhost, a free webhosting...
The Lithuanian 000Webhost is one of the most popular free webhosting services and has over 13.5 million users. It ranks among the top search results in Google and is quite popular for its services....
View ArticleInformation of customers of 14 companies being sold on Dark Web
After the TalkTalk incident when data of over 1.2 million customers was stolen and leaked online; The Mail has reported that 14 other companies are also victims of similar attack. The Mail has also...
View ArticleThe mobile game ‘Clash of Kings’ was hacked and 1.6 million user info exposed
The Clash of the Kings is one of the most liked game on the mobile environment with more than 100 million downloads but recent hack exposes its 1.6 million gamer information exposed. The hacker...
View ArticleThe Eleventh HOPE conference attracts audience from a broad areas of interest...
The most admired and well known hacker convention “HOPE” which takes place every two years in the heart of New York City attracted some of the greatest security experts from various disciplines. Hope –...
View ArticleWindows 10 – Evil to the Core for Privacy and pain for the users
Last evening I left my desktop running the whole night on a photoshop job. Today morning my desktop was showing “blue screen of death ” with a message and a hung desktop. “Your PC ran into a problem...
View ArticleBlackhat Vs Defcon in a Nutshell – 2016
The two names “Blackhat” & “Defcon” rings the bell as the scariest hacker conference for people around the world. People from various disciplines in security with their best researches are invited...
View ArticleWhatsup which is now Facebook, backstabs its users by sharing users data
It was long due before Facebook made its move to share data between Whatsup app and Facebook after the acquisition. Facebook is known to invade its users privacy with a claim of openness by its CEO...
View ArticleSteps to Change your Whatsapp Settings before Facebook Begins Sharing data –...
From the first time you see the privacy policy update screen on WhatsApp ( both iPhone & Android phones) , you have 30 days to click through and agree or not agree to Facebook, using your Whatsapp...
View ArticleWhatsApp, aka Facebook was sued in India by two college students due to...
After the recent changes to privacy policy on WhatsApp , people around the world feels to have betrayed by Facebook’s decision. To challenge this, two students from India have filed a legal challenge...
View ArticleTodesco, a security researcher breaks Apple iphone 7 in less than 24 hours
Its hardly been two weeks since release of iphone 7 and a security researcher claims that he has already jailbroken in less than 24 hours. Motherboard,a online news portal mentioned that “one teenage...
View ArticleAkamai’s incapability to protect, dups its customer after massive DDOS...
Last week KrebsOnSecurity.com was targeted by massive 620Gbps DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) and Kerbs had to take his site down for days. The decision of taking the site down was made...
View ArticleApprox. 68 million Dropbox accounts available to download by anyone wordwide
During the month of August, motherboard one of prominent online magazine released a report that more than 60 million account details were stolen from the cloud storage provider Dropbox. However now...
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