Why Protecting Your Magento Ecommerce Website Is So Damn Important

The Market of E-commerce websites is at its peak, as today people love to shop online to save their time. However, E-commerce and financial sites stand first in the rundown of potential victims as they manage financial exchanges. The traditional way to target victims of e-commerce sites is to use...

Anonymous Hackers Target Israeli Websites and Leak Credentials

The infamous hacking group Anonymous that vowed an 'Electronic Holocaust' against Israel and promised to 'erase Israel from cyberspace' on 7th April, managed to launch a cyber attack, beginning Tuesday morning. In a spooky video "message to Israel" posted on YouTube March 4, Anonymous declared...

Dyre Wolf Banking Malware Stole More Than $1 Million

Security researchers have uncovered an active cyber attack campaign that has successfully stolen more than $1 Million from a variety of targeted enterprise organizations using spear phishing emails, malware and social engineering tricks. The campaign, dubbed "The Dyre Wolf" by researchers from...

Anonymous Hackers Threaten Israel with 'Electronic-Holocaust' on 7th April

The famous cyber hacker group Anonymous has vowed an 'Electronic Holocaust' against Israel in response to what the group calls 'crimes in the Palestinian territories'. In a spooky video "message to Israel" posted on YouTube March 4, Anonymous declared yet another cyber attack on April 7, which is...

Tor Browser 4.0.4 Released

Tor — a privacy oriented encrypted anonymizing service, has announced the launch of its next version of Tor Browser Bundle, i.e. Tor version 4.0.4, mostly supposed to improve the built-in utilities, privacy and security of online users on the Internet. Tor Browser helps users to browse the Intern...

Anthem Hack May Implicate 18 Million Non-Customers

In addition to roughly 80 million Anthem customers, nearly 20 million more individuals who aren’t customers of the health insurer could ultimately wind up implicated in this month’s massive data breach. The company disclosed yesterday that between 8.8 million and 18.8 million Blue Cross Blue Shie...

NSA Planted Stuxnet-Type Malware Deep Within Hard Drive Firmware

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA may be hiding highly-sophisticated hacking payloads in the firmware of consumer hard drives over the last 15 to 20 years in a campaign, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on thousands of targets’ computers, according to an analysis by Kaspersky labs and...

Hacktivist Group Anonymous (#OpISIS) Takes Down Islamic State (ISIS) Social Media Accounts

The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a massive cyber attack against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS — the radical Islamic terrorist group who were responsible for the terrorist attack against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. With huge social media presence,...

Anthem Data Breach Could Affect Millions of Consumers

Attackers have compromised Anthem Inc., one of the larger health-care companies in the United States, gaining access to the Social Security numbers, birth dates, names, employment and income data and other personal information of an untold number of customers. The company says it is not sure yet...

FBI Director says 'Sloppy' Sony Hackers Left Clues that Point to North Korea

The hackers group responsible for the last year’s largest hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment left many clues which proves that the Sony's hackers, who called themselves Guardians of Peace GOP, linked to North Korea, as claimed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. Speaking at the...

North Korea Sanctions Handed Out in Sony Hack

President Obama today signed an Executive Order authorizing sanctions against North Korea for its alleged involvement in the Sony hack. The FBI on Dec. 19 formally blamed the hack on the North Korean government; the attack destroyed workstations and resulted in the loss of employee personal and...

South Korean Nuclear Power Plant Hacked

Koreans have once again gain media attention but this time not as an accused of any kind of hack attack, but as a victim of a severe attack on computers systems at a nuclear power plant in South Korea by an unknown hacker or a group. South Korea was hit by a cyber attack on its nuclear power plan...

Tor Network Is Under Attack through Directory Authority Servers Seizures

Tor has been targeted once again, but this time at a much larger scale. A new attack on Tor network reportedly would either completely shut it down worldwide or turn it into evil network. This time Tor – an internet browser which allows people to maintain their anonymity online by protecting thei...

FBI Officially Blames North Korea in Sony Hacks

The FBI announced today that it has gathered enough evidence to say with certainty that the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is in fact responsible for recent intrusions into the networks of Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE. This fact was all but officially stated yesterday...

Global Internet Authority ICANN Has Been Hacked

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN has been hacked by unknown attackers that allowed them to gain administrative access to some of the organization's systems, the organization confirmed. The attackers used "spear phishing" campaign to target sensitive systems operated b...

Sony Warns Employees Health Information May Have Been Compromised

Sony Pictures Entertainment has sent a letter to employees warning them that, along with huge amounts of corporate and employee information, some personal health data belonging to SPE employees may also have been compromised in the attack that hit the company in late November. The letter, which...

Las Vegas Sands' Casino Network hit by Destructive Malware

Sony Pictures Entertainment hack that started at the end of the last month and so far has caused a severe damage to its reputation as well as resources, from internal system shutdown to upcoming movies and scripts leak. Now, a similar cyber attack against Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp has...

Lax Crossdomain Policy Puts Yahoo Mail At Risk

Yahoo has made strides in battening down its security in the last 12 months, most publicly with its decision to enable end-to-end encryption for its email service, turn on SSL by default, and encrypt links between its data centers. There are still some darkened corners of its infrastructure,...

Sony Pictures Employees Receive Threatening Email After Hack

The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment have reached a totally unbelievable and scary phase as multiple media sources are saying that Sony Pictures employees received e-mails from hackers threatening to harm them and their family members. Said one employee, "It's really cra...

F.B.I., Mandiant Investigating Sony Pictures Breach

Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE is continuing to investigate a potentially massive breach that last week compromised most of the company’s systems and leaked several films online, some which haven’t even been released in theaters yet. Officials from the FBI and experts with Mandiant, FireEye’s...