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...

'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...

KALI Linux 1.0.6 released; officially added Emergency Self Destruct feature

A few days back the developers of one of the most advance open source operating system for penetration testing called 'KALI Linux' announced that they were planning to include "emergency self-destruction of LUKS".They patched a utility called cryptsetup, which introduces a self destruction featur...

Small satellite terminals (VSAT) are vulnerable to Cyber attack

+are+vulnerable+to+Cyber+attack.gif The Military Units that rely on very small aperture terminals VSATs for satellite communications in remote areas are vulnerable to cyber attack. Researchers from cyber intelligence company IntelCrawler recently identified nearly 3 million VSATs, many of them in...

PrisonLocker Ransomware Emerges From Criminal Underground

Security researchers from Malware Must Die uncovered new ransomware called PrisonLocker, and said the malware author is either a legitimate security researcher or is posing as one via a personal blog and Twitter handle. Malware Must Die has monitored PrisonLocker’s development since spotting it f...

Weak Password Used to Access Hypervisor, Deface OpenSSL Site

The OpenSSL Project blames a weak password used at its hosting provider for its recent site defacement. The organization that hosts the ubiquitous open source encryption implementation updated a notice on its website yesterday informing users that attackers used the weak credential to gain contro...