People with accounts on Adult FriendFinder, Penthouse, Cams.com, Stripshow and various other adult networks have had their accounts compromised and if you have used the same password on a different network then you might need to change your passwords. The parent company for all these networks was hacked and as …
Read More »Hacking of Canadian Casino Results in Theft of Financial Data
The Casino Rama Hotel in Ontario has been hit with a massive data breach attack that has resulted in the theft of personal data of customers and staff. It seems that hacking has gone from being surreptitious to being done in the open and for everyone to see nowadays. Big …
Read More »Metropolitan police hacked by Anonymous
The Metropolitan police news site was hacked by cyber activists who were retaliating for the Million Mask march arrests which had been made earlier and been reported on the news site earlier that day, according to reports coming out of the country. The hacking group, Crash OverRide, took responsibility pf …
Read More »Google Assistant feature has benign bug which shows offline when you use VPN
One of the most advertised features on the knee Google Pixel which was released last month is the Google Assistant feature. The feature is also accessible in some ways on the non Pixel Nougat devices and the non Nougat devices. The search giant has restricted the official compatibility of the …
Read More »100,000 enslaved web devices were used for the attack
The cyber attack which took down various websites such as Twitter, Netflix, and Reddit last week has now been said to have been originated from the 100,000 web enabled devices which were taken together by the malicious software program. This is according to the company which was involved in the …
Read More »New Eko malware seen in France and its targeting the Messenger users
A new malware called Eko malware has been seen in France and it’s been terrorizing Facebook users in the country. The malware now intends to branch out to the rest of the world and that would mean bad news to all Facebook users. The Eko malware manages to get into …
Read More »500,000 IoT devices made vulnerable to Mirai Botnet
Security researchers have managed to identify about 500,000 vulnerable Internet of Things devices which might have been easily taken up by the Mirai or other similar botnets. A group of security researchers had noticed that the recent attacks were being powered by many of the Internet of Things devices. The …
Read More »Web malware used to steal card data from e-commerce websites
A campaign which cyber criminals have been attacking the various e-commerce websites online has been noticed by the security researchers. The hackers are trying to steal the payment card and sensitive information of the e-commerce sites which would have been given by the customers. The campaign is known as the …
Read More »Betternet releases new portable VPN device named Betterspot
Some technology inventions and breakthroughs have made it easier for anyone anywhere to check what you have been browsing on the internet while at work. Everyone from your company to the government and hackers all have the means to check your browsing history. That is of course if the necessary …
Read More »Source code for Mirai Trojan made public by author
A Trojan program that managed to infect about hundreds of thousands of internet of things devices has had its source code published online which will clearly pave a way for more botnets to be used. The Trojan used the IoT devices to launch some distributed denial of service attacks against …
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