19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats

British police have arrested a 19-year-old teen who is an alleged member of Apophis Squad cybercriminal group responsible for making hoax bomb threats to thousands of schools and airlines; and DDoSing ProtonMail and Tutanota secure email services. George Duke-Cohan was arrested in his bedroom at...

3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack

Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as "swatting," in which perpetrators call or message a target's local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target's address -- with the expectation that local police may...

Lies and More Lies

Following the release of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU attacks, the security community wondered if other researchers would find related speculative attack problems. When the following appeared, we were concerned: "Skyfall and Solace More vulnerabilities in modern computers. Following the recent...

Kansas Man Killed In ‘SWATting’ Attack

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a dangerous hoax known as "swatting," wherein the perpetrator falsely reports a dangerous...

Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author -- involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at "swatting" -- a dangerous...

Facebook is Going to make all your Private Photos Public Tomorrow — It's a Hoax!

Don't believe everything you read on Facebook. Despite so many awareness about Facebook hoaxes, online users fall for them and make them viral. One such viral post is circulating on Facebook that suggests everything that you have ever posted on the social media platform will become public tomorro...

STOP Sharing that Facebook Privacy and Permission Notice, It's a HOAX

Recently, you may have seen some of your Facebook friends started posting a Facebook "Privacy Notice" clarifying that they no longer give Facebook permission to use their photos, personal information, and so on. The Privacy message looks something like this: "From Monday, 27th June, 2016, 1528 IS...

FBI Most Wanted — Three 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers Charged for Cyber Crime

Syrian Electronic Army SEA Hackers have made their place on the FBI's Most Wanted List. The US Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI are willing to pay $100,000 reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the heads of the infamous hacking group Syrian...

'Facebook To Begin Charging Users $2.99 / Month' — Totally BULLSHIT!

Facebook going to charge users per month?? Nobody expected such a news story this week, but it seems that Facebook will No longer be a Free Service, according to reports claimed by the National Report, "Facebook To Begin Charging Users $2.99/mo Starting November 1st", which turns out fake. Thank...

Default password (dasdec1) for 'root' account

The account 'root' on the remote host has the password 'dasdec1'. An attacker may leverage this issue to gain access to the affected system and launch further attacks against it. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. account = "root"; password = "dasdec1";...

Script that gives hackers access to user accounts floods Facebook !

A widespread hack spread across Facebook early Thursday morning and shows no signs of abating as of yet. It comes in the form of a script that posts heavily profanity-laden wall posts continuously, instructing you that the only way to remove the posts is to click a 'Remove This App' link...

Worm Virus Twitter Scam Push Rogue !

Thousands of Twitter users are believed to have been struck with malicious links tied to a rogue anti-virus hoax circulating the microblog service. Scam is spreading malicious links goo.gl wrong URL shortening services. According to Kaspersky Lab, malicious links to redirect users to different...