Hackers have breached the servers of Kagoya, a famous web hosting company in Japan, and made away with credit card information of millions of users. The company has sent an email to its clients, indicating that it has discovered a massive breach of its security. According to the company, the …
Read More »Hacker Creates a Hacking Competition in Turkey
A hacker who goes by the pseudonym, ‘Mehmet’ has created a competition in which participants are encouraged to launch DDoS attacks against specific websites. According to Forcepoint Security Labs, a security firm that carried out investigations on the competition and published its findings, the hacker has managed to create a …
Read More »Hacker Claims to Have Stolen Millions from a Leading Blockchain Investor
A hacker has claimed to have successfully hacked into the accounts of a prominent blockchain investor and stolen millions of dollars. The hacker, through a series of tweets of a hijacked Twitter account, claims to have breached the accounts of Bon Shen, one of the leading investors in Blockchain. Bon …
Read More »Talk Talk Routers Hit by Mirai Worm, Users’ Passwords at Risk
TalkTalk routers have been hit by a variant of the now famous Mirai worm. According to Ken Munro, one of the managing partners at Ken Test Partners, the router of TalkTalk known as D-Link DSL-3780, has been affected by a slightly new variant of Mirai worm called TR-06FAIL. The bug …
Read More »Dangers of GPS spoofing and hacking for location based services
We have all been in situations where Google Maps has come up and saved us from being lost and actually given us the correct location, but imagine cases whereby the Map application showed you the wrong place and showed you a wrong place. If the thing happened in previous years …
Read More »Hacker is Hacked Hours After Compromising The San Francisco Rail System
On Friday, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency was hit by an attack, and the ransomware attack caused some problems including on the fare station terminals whereby they carried the message which said, You Are Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. However, it turns out that the person who was responsible for …
Read More »Locky malware using malicious image files to attack Facebook, LinkedIn accounts
One cunning malware which is surprisingly low tech has been seen spreading over the week through a new attack vector, and the problem is worrying security researchers. The malware program works by exploiting some flaws which they see on the Facebook and LinkedIn platforms. One Israeli security firm, Check Point …
Read More »Users could hide with VPN services as the UK passes the ‘Snooper Charter’ into law
The UK Snooper’s Charter, which is the UK investigatory Power’s Bill, but famously known with the former name by most of its critics has now been successfully passed as a law. The law, among other things, brings corporations and tech firms to start storing their data in bulk and be …
Read More »The FBI used one warrant to hack into thousands of computers based in 120 countries
The FBI is said to have hacked thousands of computers around the world, and it did all of this based on just one warrant. And some deem the warrant to be illegal. According to one of the defendants in the case, Colin Fieman, there has never been a case where …
Read More »Huawei launches their new service, the Cloud VPN Integration Service
Huawei are launching a new VPN service which it claims will be able to resolve all the problems in the various enterprise leased services which seem to be affecting the telecoms operators. These problems include the slow provisioning of the network, the lack of services and the difficult operation. The …
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