Email Hacking Reigns as Top Cybersecurity Threat, Indusface Study

By Waqas The new study has identified a cybersecurity training gap and an alarming lack of preparedness in countering emerging threats. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Email Hacking Reigns as Top Cybersecurity Threat, Indusface Study...

Zero-Day Warning: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails

Watch out Apple users! The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild, at least, from the last two years to spy on high-profile victims. The flaws could eventually let remote hackers...

BitDam Study Exposes High Miss Rates of Leading Email Security Systems

Imagine receiving an email from US VP Mike Pence's official email account asking for help because he has been stranded in the Philippines. Actually, you don't have to. This actually happened. Pence's email was hacked when he was still the governor of Indiana, and his account was used to attempt t...

Woman charged for hacking & leaking private pictures of Selena Gomez

By Carolina Selena Gomez, a well-known celebrity pop star, is in the news for getting her email hacked that led to the exposure of her personal pictures on the internet. A 21-year old female has been arrested and charged for performing the hacking of Gomez’ email. Susan Atrach from Ridgefield Par...

21-Year-Old Woman Charged With Hacking Selena Gomez's Email Account

A 21-year-old New Jersey woman has been charged with hacking into the email accounts of pop star and actress Selena Gomez, stealing her personal photos, and then leaked them to the Internet. Susan Atrach of Ridgefield Park was charged Thursday with 11 felony counts—five counts of identity theft,...

Cybercriminals Infiltrating E-Mail Networks to Divert Large Customer Payments

There's a new criminal tactic involving hacking an e-mail account of a company that handles high-value transactions and diverting payments. Here it is in real estate: The scam generally works like this: Hackers find an opening into a title company's or realty agent's email account, track upcoming...

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...

Researcher Owns Internal Network after Victim Opens Email

Security researcher Bogdan Calin found that he could remotely compromise the internal networks of users with default or weak router passwords merely by compelling them to open a legitimate looking email on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Writing for the Acunetix blog, Calin explains that he has found...

Alleged TeamPoison Member Sentenced to Six Months in Jail

A British teenager has been sentenced to six months in jail after pleading guilty to illegally accessing the Gmail account of a former top aide to former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Junaid Hussain was allegedly a member of the TeamPoison hacking crew and had posted some of Blair’s personal...

Syrian president's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers

Syrian president's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers According to report received to THN editorial, A hacker based out of Saudi Arabia, identified as Salman Al Anzi, claims to have hacked the private email account of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. He also hack a number of Syrian ministries, the...

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. According to Assange, over 150 private sector organisations in 25 countri...

International Association of Chiefs of Police Investigators Owned by Anonymous Hackers

International Association of Chiefs of Police Investigators Owned by Anonymous Hackers The Antisec wing of Anonymous has come out with another document release in its ongoing assault on law enforcement. A Special Agent Supervisor of the CA Department of Justice is the latest victim of Anonymous w...

International Foreign Government E-Mails Hacked by TeaMp0isoN

International Foreign Government E-Mails Hacked by TeaMp0isoN TeaMp0isoN group of hackers claim to hack more than 150 Email Id's of International Foreign Governments. They Release the Email List with Password on Pastebin note. Hex000101 Hacker, A member of TeaMp0isoN team got these Login...

Suspect in "Hackerazzi" Case Says He Will Plead Guilty

A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson. According to a copy of the indictment PDF, Christopher Chaney of...

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man,Christopher Chaney and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe...

Sonu Nigam's email hacked !

Sonu Nigam's email hacked ! Singer Sonu Nigam pressed the panic button when all his friends started receiving random emails, supposedly from him at a time when he was shooting for a TV show. Nigam didn't want to specify the content of the abusive mails but dismissed them saying that they were...

Emailrevealer.com Launches New Email Hacking Investigation service !

EmailRevealer.com the Colorado based private investigation firm specializing in cyber stalking intervention and email tracing, has added Email Hacking Investigations to their investigative tool box. EmailRevealer's Email Hacking Investigations, available through their web site at...

Ahmedabad Police register FIR in email hacking case !

The city crime branch hasregistered an FIR based on allegation by Rais Khan, a formeraide of social activist Teesta Setalwad, that his emailaccount was hacked. "An FIR has been registered in connection with thealleged hacking of email account of Khan," DCP crime branchHimanshu Shukla told PTI. Th...

Kelly Osbourne Email Got Hacked by Stupid Cyber Thief !

Kelly Osbourne is the new victim of a cyberthief who tapped into her email. And the Dancing With The Stars alum and chic Fashion Police co-host made sure all of her fans found out about the unfortunate situation via her Twitter page. "Someone has hacked my mail account the police are now involved...

Hacking Services On the Rise

The last couple of years have seen a dramatic rise in the number and quality of malware-as-a-service and hacking-as-a-service providers, with many of them advertising their services on the Web. And while law enforcement officials are well aware of the problem, they’re not having much luck in...