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No US Voter Registration data breaches… yet
Although those news resources belonging to Russia are spreading misinformation on the social media that the US Vote Registration database was hacked and the information is been circulating on the dark web from the past couple of days, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency(CISA) has released a press statement or rather was forced to […]
FBI issues Cyber Attack warning against Smart TVs
As sales of smart TVs have boomed on this Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Thanksgiving weekend, the FBI has issued a warning that hackers are now becoming sophisticated enough to punch a hole on the cyber defenses of smart TV users. In general, we use smart TVs to watch Netflix, Amazon Prime, and such video […]
XKCD data breach exposes passwords of more than 560,000 users
XKCD which is owned and run by American author Randall Munroe has is reported to have become a victim of a data breach leaking passwords, usernames and IP addresses of more than 560,000 users. High placed sources say that data access to hackers took place in July this year and the company discovered the breach […]
Bitglass Security Spotlight: iPhones Susceptible to a Hack via Text
This post was originally published by Juan Lugo. Earlier this month, Natalie Silvanovich, a Google Project Zero researcher, presented multiple interaction-less bugs in Apple’s iOS iMessage client during the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. Silvanovich asserts that these bugs can be used to interact with a user’s device and exploit it. Although Apple […]
China has been hacking data from UK mobile phones from the past 7 years
Its bad news to those using a mobile phone in the United Kingdom as a recent survey claims that hackers employed by the Chinese government have been spying on your call, text and internet data from the past 7 years. Yes, you’ve read it right! An Israeli based Cybersecurity firm named Cybereason has claimed this […]
Hackers exploit Grindr, Romeo, Recon, and 3Fun apps to access user data
All those who are interested in Gay and 3 some apps, here’s a security alert which might be of your interest. Reports are in that hackers have learned ways to exploit vulnerabilities in apps like Grindr, Romeo, 3Fun, and Recon to access personal info of consumers of these platforms. News is out that the bad […]
Rewards to hack Microsoft Azure, Apple iPhone, and iOS
Microsoft, the American software giant has launched a dedicated cloud environment for security researchers to launch attacks on scenarios which involve Infrastructure as a service. Launched at Black Hat USA 2019 Conference and Dubbed as Azure Security Lab, the service happens to host dedicated servers for hackers to exploit and launch test attacks on IaaS […]
Amazon hacked by retailers to post fake reviews
Which?, a brand name which is associated to a Consumers Association based in the United Kingdom has made a startling revelation yesterday that some retailers were seen abusing the user-friendly features of Amazon’s security systems to post fake reviews in order to spike sales of their products. The discovery was made after scrutinizing 1000’s of […]
Microsoft encourages hacking its cloud services with ‘Safe Harbor’
American tech giant Microsoft Corporation has released a press statement yesterday encouraging hackers to hack into its Azure cloud. Technically speaking, the company wants to encourage security hackers to find vulnerabilities in its cloud services platform as a part of the ‘Safe Harbor’ initiative. “From the past few years, white hat hackers have been regularly […]
Data hacking news from Australia
Australian banking corporation Westpac has discovered that a cyber attack has exposed details of more than 98,000 of its customers. And authorities report that the breach occurred when cyber crooks infiltrated into the bank’s PayID feature. PayID is a feature which allows searching a registered account in the bank by typing in a phone number. […]
