ISIS Calls Anonymous "IDIOTS" and Issues 5 Lame Tips for its Members to Avoid Getting Hacked

The Anonymous Hacking group on Sunday declared Total War against the ISIS, the Islamic State terror organization that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks on Friday that killed 129 people and hundreds more injured. In a sinister video posted on YouTube, the Cyber Hacktivists said they wil...

FBI reportedly Paid $1 Million to University Researchers for UnMasking Tor Users

The non-profit Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying the security researchers of Carnegie Mellon University CMU at least $1 Million to disclose the technique they had discovered that could help them… …Unmask Tor users as well as Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. A...

TeleGraph.co.uk Cross Site Scripting

TeleGraph All Photo Picture Pages Have Been Vulnerable to XSS Cyber Attacks Website Description: http://www.telegraph.co.uk "The Daily Telegraph is a British daily morning English-language broadsheet newspaper, published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed throughout the United...

ACSC Releases 2015 Threat Report

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released its 2015 Threat Report. This report provides threat information that Australian organizations are facing, such as cyber espionage, cyber attacks, and cyber crime. Mitigation and remediation steps are also included to assist organizations with...

Social Engineering — Free Online Training for Hackers

For most of us Hacking is Technological in Nature. But, we usually forget the most important element of hacking that makes a successful hack from 10% to over 90%... ...The Human Element. And here the Social Engineering comes in. Social Engineering deals with non-technical kind of intrusion and...

Emergency Patch released for Latest Flash Zero-Day Vulnerability

Two days ago, The Hacker News THN reported about the Zero-day vulnerability in the freshly patched Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability was exploited in the wild by a well-known group of Russian hackers, named "Pawn Storm," to target several foreign affairs ministries worldwide. The zero-day fla...

European Aviation Agency Warns of Aircraft Hacking

The director of one of Europe’s top aviation agencies warned on Thursday that hackers could infiltrate critical systems in an airplane on the ground. Patrick Ky director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, said a consultant hired by the agency—one who is a commercial pilot as well—exploited...

Researcher warns about Security Loopholes in Denmark's Largest Bank

While accessing your Bank account online, Have you ever thought… ...there could be a Hacker, somewhere in the World, who is after your Money? Maybe NO. Because, you believe that your bank offers Secure banking solution, Right? At The Hacker News, we have reported many incidents of cyber attacks,...

Design Flaws Make Drones Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks

In the past, The Hacker News THN reported about various activities surrounding Drones. Whether it was the development of the first backdoor for drones MalDrone, or Weaponized drones getting legal, or Drones hacking smartphones. And now the reports depict... Security Researcher has showcased a...

Is This Security-Focused Linux Kernel Really UnHackable?

Can you name which Operating System is most Secure? ...Windows, Mac, Linux or any particular Linux Distribution? Yes, we get that! It’s not an easy thing to pick. Besides Windows, Even the so-called ultra-secure Linux Distros were found to be vulnerable to various critical flaws in past years...

​SYNful Knock: Backdoor Malware Found in Cisco Routers

Mandiant, a FireEye sister concern has been involved in researches related to cyber defense. In their recent findings, a backdoor malware named SYNful Knock identified as the one compromising the principles of Cisco routers with features such as... ...Having an everlasting effect, i.e. Serious...

Health Insurer Excellus Hacked; 10.5 Million Records Breached

Health Care Hacks — the choice of hackers this year! In a delayed revelation made by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield BCBS, which says that about 10.5 Millions of their clients' data and information has been compromised by hackers. Excellus BCBS headquartered in Rochester, New York, provides finance...

Russian Hackers Hijack Satellite To Steal Data from Thousands of Hacked Computers

A group of Russian hackers, most notably the Turla APT Advanced Persistent Threat is hijacking commercial satellites to hide command-and-control operations, a security firm said today. Turla APT group, which was named after its notorious software Epic Turla, is abusing satellite-based Internet...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part II

In Part I of this two-part series from The Hacker News, the First Four list of Top Brutal Cyber Attacks shows that whoever you are, Security can never be perfect. As attackers employ innovative hacking techniques and zero-day exploits, the demand for increased threat protection grows. In this...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part I

If you believe that your organization is not at real risk of cyber attack, then you are absolutely wrong. Incidents of massive data breaches, advanced cyber attacks coming from China, groups like Syrian Electronic Army, Hacking Point of Sale machines at retailers such as Target have splashed acro...

Six U.K. Teens Arrested for using Lizard Squad's DDoS Tool

Six British teenagers arrested and released on bail on suspicion of launching cyber attacks on websites and services with the help of Lizard Squad DDoS attack tool, called Lizard Stresser. Lizard Squad is infamous for hacking and knocking down the largest online gaming networks – PlayStation...

Android mediaserver components exposed high-risk vulnerabilities CVE-2 0 1 5-3 8 4 2, and affects all Android devices-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! On the weeks, Android broke a wave of vulnerabilities, including Stagefright, a 0day serialization vulnerabilities, the Certifi-Gate vulnerability, etc., recent trends in science and technology fellows and broke yet another high-risk VulnerabilityCVE-2 0 1 5-3 8 4 2, and this one vulnerability...

SSL Encryption — Securing Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things IoT with the purpose of providing convenience to the users enabled every object in the universe to be as smart as a whip. By assigning IP address to all sorts of devices, ranging from household appliances, machines, medical devices and sensors to other day-to-day objects, and...

FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams

Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number of companies being targeted by scammers threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they don’t pay a ransom. The scam is a variation on a theme, th...

All Smartwatches are vulnerable to Hackers

Do you own a Smartwatch? If yes, then how safe it is? There are almost 100 percent chances that you own a vulnerable Smartwatch. Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is warning users of smartwatches including Apple Watch and Samsung Gear that their wearable devices are vulnerable to cyber attack...