5.6 Million Fingerprints Stolen In OPM Hack

It turns out roughly 5.6 million federal employees may have had their fingerprints stolen as part of this year’s mammoth Office of Personnel Management breach – a figure five times what the agency initially announced in June. OPM press secretary Sam Schumach broke the bad news Wednesday morning,...

iOS 9 Hack: How to Access Private Photos and Contacts Without a Passcode

Setting a passcode on your iPhone is the first line of defense to help prevent other people from accessing your device. However, it's pretty easy for anyone to access your personal photographs and contacts from your iPhone running iOS 9 in just 30 seconds or less, even with a passcode and/or Touc...

AVG Antivirus Plans to Collect & Sell Your Personal Data to Advertisers

We at The Hacker News are big fans of Security Software – The first thing we install while setting our Computers and Devices. Thanks to Free Security Software that protects Internet users without paying for their security. But, Remember: Nothing comes for FREE "Free" is just a relative term, as o...

CVE-2015-4980

Unspecified vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Commerce 7.0.0.6 through 7.0.0.9 allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive personal information via unknown vectors...

NY Health Provider Excellus Discloses Data Breach Dating to 2013

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, a large health care provider in New York state, says it was hit by an attack that began in 2013 and wasn’t discovered until last month, resulting in the compromise of members’ personal information, including Social Security numbers, addresses, financial and account...

China Police Arrest 15,000 Suspects for Alleged Cyber Crimes

China Police has arrested nearly 15,000 people on suspicion of cyber crimes as part of an operation dubbed "Cleaning the Internet," according to reports. According to the Chinese Ministry of Public Security MPS, the suspects have been arrested for their involvement in cyber crimes that "jeopardiz...

Disgusting! Ashley Madison was Building an App – 'What's your Wife Worth?'

We could expect Ashley Madison to cross any limits when it comes to cheating, but this is WORSE. After all the revelations made by the Impact Team past week, this was something different from the leaked data that had names, password and other details of Ashley Madison clients. A dump from the...

Facebook M: Facebook's Answer to Siri, Cortana and Google Now

Microsoft's 'Cortana', Google's 'Google Now', Apple's 'Siri', Now meet Facebook's 'M.' Facebook's announcement to introduce their Personal Digital Assistant “M” comes with powers within the Facebook Messenger. It is a similar virtual assistant like Google Now, Apple's Siri and Microsoft's smart...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager authentication bypass

Added: 08/26/2015 CVE: CVE-2015-1486 BID: 76074 Background Symantec Endpoint Protection, by Symantec Corporation, is an antivirus and personal firewall product designed to be centrally managed in corporate environments by the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager SEPM. Problem Symantec Endpoint...

Ashley Madison Hacker – An Insider Woman Employee?

"Ashley Madison was not hacked!" This is what declared by John McAfee, former founder of antivirus software company McAfee. So far everyone must be aware of Ashley Madison massive data breach. Last week, the hackers, who called themselves Impact Team, posted 10GB of personal data for tens of...

Microsoft Launches Cortana App For Android Users

Yes, she is here! Android users can now talk to Cortana – the first personal digital assistant – which is a patented product of Microsoft. She is available on all the devices running Windows 10. Earlier in May, Microsoft said they will make Cortana available for Android and iOS users. Therefore, ...

Web.com Hacked! Credit Card information of 93,000 Customers Compromised

Web.com, a Florida-based web hosting company with up to 3.3 Million customers, has suffered a data breach and may have compromised personal information and credit card data belonging to 93,000 of its clients. The company on Tuesday confirmed that some unknown hackers had breached one of its...

Web.com Data Breach

Update Florida-based web hosting company Web.com on Tuesday announced that it had suffered a data breach and payment card and personal information belonging to 93,000 customers was accessed. The company did not say in a statement or press release whether the stolen data was encrypted, nor how it...

WordPress WP Symposium Plugin 15.1 - SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Wordpress Plugin wp-symposium Unauthenticated SQL Injection Vulnerability Date: 2015-07-30 Exploit Author: PizzaHatHacker Vendor Homepage: http://www.wpsymposium.com/ Version: ? = version = 15.5.1 Tested on: Apache / WordPress...

Lenovo Service Engine (LSE) BIOS Vulnerability

Certain Lenovo personal computers contain a vulnerability in LSE a Lenovo BIOS feature. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the Lenovo Security Advisories for notebooks and desktops...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID17308: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 11, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40399 First Published: 2015 August 11 16:14 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID17308 may contain the following files: Name |...

The vulnerability of the Moodle learning management system allows a hacker to gain access to personal contact information and details about unread messages.

The vulnerability of the Moodle learning management system’s sub-component message/index.php is related to the lack of protection for administrative data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain access to personal contact information and details...

Census Bureau Says Breach Didn't Compromise Sensitive Data

Officials at the United States Census Bureau say that the attackers who compromised one of the bureau’s databases last week did not get access to any confidential information, but only data such as names and phone numbers of organizations that submit information to the Federal Audit Clearinghouse...

Oops! Adult Dating Website Ashley Madison Hacked; 37 Million Accounts Affected

"Life is short. Have an affair," but always remember "Cheaters never prosper." AshleyMadison.com, an American most prominent dating website, that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, potentially putting very private details of Millions of its users at risk of being exposed...

The social security system, The exposed proximal 2 0 0 vulnerabilities, a hacker can obtain sensitive information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In recent years, because of the leakage of personal information causes of telecommunications fraud, crooks know of the victims unit, name, ID number, level of income. The social security system vulnerability to cause the leakage of personal information, may be one of the sources. 2 0 1 3 year to...