ILIAS 4.4.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

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...

Swiss Firm Digs Up 300,000+ Usernames/Passwords on Pastebin

More than 300,000 credentials, usernames and passwords, were posted on the clipboard website Pastebin.com in the year 2013 alone according to a recent analysis by a Swiss security firm. As part of an experiment to determine how big the hacking industry is, High-Tech Bridge, a company until now...

Confirmed: Samsung Galaxy S5 has a Fingerprint Scanner

After the huge success of Samsung galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4 and Samsung Tablets, the world’s most successful Android manufacturer is going to reveal its brand new Smartphone Samsung Galaxy S5 next week at Mobile World. Early in 2014, rumors suggested that Samsung Galaxy S5 will have Fingerprin...

Kickstarter Compromised, User Data Stolen

Attackers broke into the network of Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform, and stole a variety of user data, including usernames, addresses, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Company officials didn’t specify exactly how many users were affected and said that “no credit card data of any ki...

Forbes Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army; Website and Twitter accounts Compromised

Forbes is the latest victim in a long line of high-profile attacks by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, sending a reminder to the international community that cyber warfare is alive and well. The pro-Assad group also took responsibility for hacking multiple Forbes websites and hijacked three Twitte...

Underground Marketplace 'Utopia' Seized by Dutch Police, 5 suspects arrested

After Silk Road, another underground online marketplace 'Utopia' has been seized by Dutch National Police, where users could buy illegal drugs and guns for home delivery. The police started their investigation under Codename 'Operation Commodore' in 2013, and finally seized Utopia's Germany-based...

Detecting Car Hacks

PUNTA CANA–The car that you drive every day isn’t really a car. It’s mostly a collection of small computers with a bunch of wires and metal and plastic attached. And like any other computer, the ones in your car can be hacked, as researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have demonstrated in...

Hacking a Car remotely with $20 iPhone sized Device

In the era of Smart devices, we have Smartphones, Smart TVs, Smart Fridges, and even the Smart cars! We have made our life very easy and comfortable by providing the master control of every task to such smart devices. But imagine if an attacker wants to take revenge or hurt someone, now they can...

Google adds its Chrome apps and extensions to Bug Bounty Program

Google's Vulnerability Reward Program which started in November 2010, offers a hefty reward to the one who find a good vulnerability in its products. Now Google is getting a little more serious about the security of its Chrome Browser and has expanded its Bug Bounty Program to include all Chrome...

[FBHT v2.0] Facebook Hacking Tool

FBHT F aceb ook H ackingT ool is an open-source tool written in Python that exploits multiple vulnerabilities on the Facebook platform The tool provides: Tests account handling Create, Delete, Friend, Accept Youtube videos phishing Facebook links preview modification Friends list privacy bypass...

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Relaunching New Editions

Dear Readers, After publishing 15 informative editions of 'The Hacker News' magazine in past 2 years; we at THN are again planning to relaunch the new Chapters of 'The Hacker News Magazine'. The Hacker News THN Monthly Magazine is the most comprehensive and informative collection of IT Security,...

Google Chrome added pop-up warning to prevent users from Browser hijacking

GOOGLE, one of the most trusted brands continuously trying to keep its products more robust and secure for keeping its users safe. Google honors vulnerability hunters under its Bug bounty program and not only that, the company also offer a huge amount of reward to hackers in 'Pwnium' hacking...

Foursquare vulnerability that exposes 45 million users' email addresses

A location based Social Networking platform with 45 million users,'Foursquare' was vulnerable to the primary email address disclosed. Foursquare is a Smartphone application that gives you details of nearby cafes, bars, shops, parks using GPS location and also tells about your friends nearby...

Syrian Electronic Army Hits CNN, Microsoft

Just like it’s done time and time before, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA broke into yet another media outlet late last week, hacking a handful of social media accounts belonging to CNN, including seven Twitter accounts and two Facebook accounts. CNN admitted the accounts were compromised in a pos...

Google announces $2.7 million Reward for hacking Chrome OS at Pwnium Contest

Pwnium is the annual Hacking competition where Google invites coders from around the world to find security holes in Google Chrome. Google has announced its 4th Pwnium Hacking Contest hosted at the Canadian Security conference in March, offering more than $2.7 million in potential rewards for...

CBI arrests Indian mastermind behind Hire-a-Hacker service on FBI tip-off

For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency 'Central Bureau of Investigation' CBI has arrested a Cyber criminal after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who...

Google Pwnium 4 to Offer $2.7M in Prizes at CanSecWest

Building on the success of the last couple of years, Google plans to offer more than $2.7 million in potential rewards in the next iteration of its Pwnium hacking competition at this year’s CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. The company has run the contest in parallel with the older Pwn2Own...

Syrian Electronic Army kept their promise; Microsoft's Office blog hacked

Yesterday Night Microsoft has faced another targeted attack by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The SEA group is popular for its advance phishing attack and using the same technique they also hacked into the Official Twitter...

Adware Companies buying popular Chrome extensions to inject Ads and Malware

Browser extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome, Firefox and other popular Browsers, but they can be used to serve malicious adware, which automatically renders advertisements in order to generate revenue for its author. Hackers are now taking thei...

Mozilla recommends the use of Open Source Browsers against State Surveillance

After the revelations from NSA internal documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the world knows the NSA as the Real Techie Gangster of this 21st Century, with the ability to brutally infiltrate every kind of electronic device, the Internet, and global communications. "It is becoming increasingly...