SRTT Vulnerability in BIND Software Puts DNS Protocol Security At Risk

After the Heartbleed bug that exposed half of the Internet vulnerable to hackers thereby marking as one of the largest Internet vulnerability in recent history, the critical flaw in the implementation of the DNS protocol could also represent a serious menace to the Internet security. A Serious...

German Aerospace Center targeted by Self-Destructing Spyware

It’s not so far when Germany confirmed its biggest Data theft in the country's history with the usernames and passwords of some 18 million email accounts stolen and compromised by Hackers, and now German space research center has been reportedly targeted in a cyber attack. The new story broke by...

Vulnerable Texas Transportation Site 'TxTag' leaves 1.2 Million Credit Cards at Risk

Do you know, Why another major company is getting hacked every week? Because of poor policies, Laziness to Incident Response and lack in will-power to put efforts on applying important patches. Some companies are not taking their security more seriously, and best suitable example for this is TxTa...

Popular Navigation App hijacked with Fake Bots to Cause Traffic Jam

Beware! Hackers can cause Traffic jams with just a navigation Smartphone application. Two Israeli students were assigned by college to hack Google-owned Waze GPS app, an Israeli-made Smartphone app that provides directions and alerts drivers to traffic and accidents. Shir Yadid and Meital...

Cyber Tool Estimates Incident Response Cost for Businesses

A thorough and freely available tool aims to help security professionals and executives anonymously tabulate the costs incurred on enterprises following all manner of cyber-incidents. Called CyberTab, the tool was created by The Economist Intelligence Unit and sponsored by the consulting firm Boo...

ZeuS Trojan variant Targets Salesforce accounts and SaaS Applications

Zeus, a financially aimed Banking Trojan that comes in many different forms and flavors, is capable to steal users' online-banking credentials once installed. This time, an infamous Zeus Trojan has turned out to be a more sophisticated piece of malware that uses web-crawling action. Instead of...

Hackers exploiting Router vulnerabilities to hack Bank accounts through DNS Hijacking

In past months, we have reported about critical vulnerabilities in many wireless Routers including Netgear, Linksys, TP-LINK, Cisco, ASUS, TENDA and more vendors, installed by millions of home users worldwide. Polish Computer Emergency Response Team CERT Polska recently noticed a large scale cybe...

Snapchat app vulnerable to denial-of-service attack, allows remotely crash iPhone

SNAPCHAT, photo sharing app is the majority choice for variety of users. Recently, the company has faced data breach and Captcha bypass vulnerability, and just yesterday a new denial-of-service attack has been revealed which can crash an iPhone. Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher has found the...

HVAC Vendor: Data Connection to Target was Billing System

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor linked to the Target breach said its data connection to the giant retailer was “exclusively for electronic billing, contract submission and project management,” the company’s president and owner said yesterday. Ross E. Fazio said in a...

Navy's Cyberwar Expert - New Director of NSA, replacing Gen. Keith Alexander

It is very clear that when we talk about Intelligence and Surveillance, the first name comes to our mind is the U.S National Security Agency NSA and, the second is Gen. Keith Alexander, the Director of NSA..GEEK behind the massive surveillance Programs. Many documents revealed by the former NSA’s...

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...

[BlackArch] Linux Distribution with 600 Security Tools

BlackArch Linux is a lightweight expansion to Arch Linux for penetration testers and security researchers. The repository contains 630 tools. You can install tools individually or in groups. BlackArch is compatible with existing Arch installs. Tool List: Name | Version | Description | Homepage...

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...

Rogue software update cause Malware attack on Japanese Nuclear Power Plant

The most critical and worst target of a State-sponsored cyber-attacks could be Hospitals, Dams, Dykes and Nuclear power stations and this may cause military conflicts between countries. According to Japan Today, The Monju nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan was accidentally targeted by a malwar...

Staysure Hacked, Credit Card details of 93,000 Customers stolen

Staysure, a UK based Insurance company has suffered a massive data breach. More than 93,000 customers' sensitive financial data may have been compromised by unknown hackers. We became aware of the problem on November 14, and quickly informed the relevant card issuing bodies and subsequently The...

The Evolution of Cyber Threat; Interview with IntelCrawler's Researchers

Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big data pool of over 3, 000, 000, 000 IPv4 and over 200,...

Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information. In the Security Breach that took place on the bank's website...

Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen

JPMorgan Chase, one of the world’s biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information. In the Security Breach that took place on the bank’s website...

Malware that transfers stolen data using Inaudible Audio signals

If you think that a computer which is not connected to a network, doesn't have any USB sticks attached to it and doesn't accept any kind of electronic connection requests are reasonably safe against hackers and from all the malware, then you are Wrong. Here we have something shocking update that...

$100 Million Worth of Bitcoins Stolen

UPDATE: As if Bitcoin malware and Bitcoin mining malware weren’t enough to worry about, there was more trouble for the users of the digital crypto-currency last week as 96,000 Bitcoins disappeared from the Sheep Marketplace. Bicoin’s value has surged in recent weeks, peaking at an astonishing...