Apple Ransomware Targeting iCloud Users Hits Australia

A handful of iPhone, iPad and Mac users, largely confined to Australia, awoke Tuesday to discover their devices had been taken hostage by ransomware. Instead of their normal home screens, users were greeted with a message promising that their devices would be unlocked if a ransom, somewhere betwe...

Like Apple's TouchID, Galaxy S5 Vulnerable to Fingerprint Hack

Researchers published a video this week demonstrating how Samsung’s latest entry in the smartphone arena, the Galaxy S5, is vulnerable to a hack that involves lifting and copying fingerprints to trick the phone’s biometric sensor. Much like the Apple iPhone 5S, the smartphone, which first hit the...

Burp Suite Professional v1.6 - The leading toolkit for web application security testing

Burp Suite is an integrated platform for performing security testing of web applications. Its various tools work seamlessly together to support the entire testing process, from initial mapping and analysis of an application’s attack surface, through to finding and exploiting security...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Fingerprint Scanner Easily Get Hacked

Samsung Galaxy S5 Fingerprint feature promises an extra layer of security for your smartphone, which also lets you make payments through PayPal. But does it really secure? Just three days after the launch of the Galaxy S5, Security researchers have successfully managed to hack Galaxy S5 Fingerpri...

Student Hacks Apple Passbook App to Get Free Flight Boarding Passes

Is Air Travel expensive for You?? Of course it’s costly for Common people. But, hackers have found a way out of it too. If you have an iPhone then there is no need to buy airline tickets, as a simple iPhone hack can fool any modern airport and get you a seat in first class for free. Anthony...

LinkedIn Hack Tool Exposes Users' Emails without Exploiting Any Vulnerability

A Free Chrome, Firefox and Safari web browser plugin floating around the web, called 'Sell Hack' allows users to view the hidden email address of any LinkedIn user, means anyone can grab email addresses that we use for professional purposes. When installed, the 'Sell Hack' plugin will pop up a...

LinkedIn Sends Cease-and-Desist to Sell Hack Plug-In Maker

UPDATE: The makers of the controversial Sell Hack browser plug-in responded this afternoon to a cease-and-desist order from LinkedIn and confirmed their extension no longer works on LinkedIn pages and that all of the publicly visible data it had processed from LinkedIn profiles has been deleted...

CVE-2013-6955 Synology DSM remote code execution

Products Affected By CVE-2013-6955 Diskstation Manager 4.0 4.2 4.3 4.3-3810 Vendor: Synology Status: Patched webman/imageSelector.cgi in Synology DiskStation Manager DSM 4.0 before 4.0-2259, 4.2 before 4.2-3243, and 4.3 before 4.3-3810 Update 1 allows remote attackers to append data to arbitrary...

HACK - A New Open Source Programming Language developed by Facebook

Facebook just released a new programming language called 'HACK', designed to build complex websites and other software quickly and without many flaws. The company has already migrated almost all of its PHP-based social networking site to HACK over the last year, but it has nothing to do with...

OkCupid: Security issue in OkCupid

I come across security issue in OkCupid. OkCupid is using Components with Known Vulnerabilities. Link: http://www.okcupid.com/ Criticality level: Medium Each http response shows server information Version, which is not useful to user and browser. But same can be useful to attacker. Description :...

Silent Circle's Blackphone - Privacy and Security Focused Smartphone for $629

Earlier this year encrypted communications firm Silent Circle and Spanish Smartphone maker Geeksphone announced a privacy-focused encrypted Smartphone called 'Blackphone' and today the company has revealed it as 'Mobile World Congress' in Barcelona. The Blackphone titled as, “world’s first...

ILIAS 4.4.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

============================================================== Title ...| Multiple vulnerabilities in ILIAS Version .| ilias-4.4.1.zip Date ....| 21.02.2014 Found ...| HauntIT Blog Home ....| www.ilias.de ============================================================== First from admin user logged...

ILIAS 4.4.1 Cross Site Scripting / Shell Upload Vulnerabilities

ILIAS version 4.4.1 suffers from cross site scripting and remote shell upload vulnerabilities. ============================================================== Title ...| Multiple vulnerabilities in ILIAS Version .| ilias-4.4.1.zip Date ....| 21.02.2014 Found ...| HauntIT Blog Home ....| www.ilias....

Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

On the 10th Anniversary of Social networking website Facebook, the hacker group 'Syrian Electronic Army' claimed that they managed to hack into the administrator account of the Facebook's Domain Registrar - MarkMonitor. The hacking group changed the Facebook Domain's contact information to a Syri...

NSA allegedly hacked Belgian Cryptography Expert with spoofed LinkedIn Profile

Cryptographer Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater has become the part of a targeted attack by the US National Security Agency NSA and its British counterpart GCHQ, first reported on Saturday morning by De Standaard. A few months back in September 2013 it was revealed that, Belgacom, the largest...

Snapchat's CAPTCHA Hacked in 30 Minutes, 100 Line of Code

It was only going to be a matter of time before someone figured out a way past Snapchat’s new CAPTCHA verification method. Just one day after the photo sharing application announced its latest security measure, one researcher claimed Wednesday that he was able to hack it with as few as 100 lines ...

CNN's Twitter, Facebook and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

A well-known pro-Syrian hacker group known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA, aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, who successfully attacked The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Twitter, BBC, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Microsoft, Xbox, Skype and responsible for cyber-attacks against...

BlackPOS Malware used in TARGET Data Breach developed by 17-Year Old Russian Hacker

The Holiday data breach at TARGET appeared to be part of a broad and highly sophisticated international hacking campaign against multiple retailers, involving the heist of possibly 110 million Credit-Debit cards, and personal information. Target confirmed last weekend that a malicious software wa...

Syrian Electronic Army's own website got hacked by Turkish hacker

Oops.. Hackers got Hacked! The Syrian Electronic Army, who has hacked hundreds of High Profile targets in 2013-14, today they got hacked by a Turkish hacker. Turkguvenligi, a Turkish hacker told The Hacker News that he hacked and defaced the official website of the hacking group SEA sea.sy and...

Blackhole Exploit Kit Successor Years Away

It should shock no one that a viable successor to the Blackhole exploit kit has yet to emerge in the criminal underground. It’s been less than three months since the arrest of its alleged creator Paunch sent cybercriminals reliant on the toolkit scrambling for a replacement. And like any profitab...