Exclusive : New Touch ID hack allows hacker to unlock an iPhone by multiple fingerprints

The Iranian group defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints. Apple‘s iPhone 5s, was launched just available in stores two weeks before with a new feature of biometrics-based security system calle...

Palestinian Hacker posted vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline

A Palestinian Web Developer and Hacker, 'Khalil Shreateh' found an interesting vulnerability in Facebook, that allows hacker to bypass the Privacy settings to make a post on anyone's Timeline / Wall. He was forced to post vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Founder Timeline to prove...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks the Outbrain service; Washington Post, CNN suffers

After months of disrupting the Twitter accounts of major U.S. media outlets, The Syrian Electronic Army Leader Says that they won't Stop hacking. Just two days before SocialFlow, a social media optimization platform was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army and readers on certain stories being...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks the Outbrain service; Washington Post, CNN suffers

After months of disrupting the Twitter accounts of major U.S. media outlets, The Syrian Electronic Army Leader Says that they won’t Stop hacking. Just two days before SocialFlow, a social media optimization platform was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army and readers on certain stories being...

Hacking Facebook users just from chat box using multiple vulnerabilities

Nir Goldshlager, Founder/CEO at Break Security known for finding serious flaws in Facebook once again on The Hacker News for sharing his new finding i.e Stored Cross-site Scripting XSS in Facebook Chat, Check In and Facebook Messenger. Stored Cross-site Scripting XSS is the most dangerous type of...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

First week at MEGA Bounty Program, paid out thousands of dollars for seven Bugs

One week after launching a Bug bounty program by the Kim Dotcom's new file-storage and sharing service MEGA claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities. Although Mega hasn't shared how much money and to whom it paid out in the first week. But as promised, it is clear that MEGA paid out thousands o...

Hackers and Anti-Government Protests rage across Iraq

Four Iraqi Government websites defaced today by hacker going by name "riSky". Defaced domains include Iraq National Investment Commission website also. Where, Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across Iraq on Friday, charging that Sunni Muslims had been disenfranchised under the Shiite-led...

First Android Rom with Kurdish Language

Android devices having more than 1.3 million daily activation and that there are now more than 500 million Android devices active worldwide. Where Android is growing at a rapid pace, there is equal growth in users from various countries like Kurdistan. Kurdistan refers to parts of eastern Turkey...

Exclusive : Hacking Hotmail and Outlook accounts using Cookie reuse vulnerability

This Friday I was working with my co-security researcher "Christy Philip Mathew" in +The Hacker News Lab for testing the Cookie Handling Vulnerabilities in the most famous email services i.e Hotmail and Outlook. Well, both are merged now and part of the same parent company - Microsoft, the softwa...

500 Websites defaced by Anonymous Supporters

Hacker Supporting Anonymous Group, with his nickname - "PVE.rr0r" hack 516 websites. Deface page shows a very cool animated Anonymous logo with text "We unite as one but no one can divide us. Expect us!" Because hacker intention was not to harm the website, so he has not change or delete any file...

Cyber Criminals phishing with smart subdomains to earn millions

Like many other security issues that now affect computer users, there is a growing threat known as phishing". Phishing attacks are perpetrated by criminals who send deceptive emails in order to lure someone into visiting a fraudulent web site or downloading malicious software, expressly for...

XSS vulnerability in 4shared and NATO Multimedia Library Exposed

Inj3ct0r Team found cross site scripting vulnerability in 4shared , a file sharing site. Vulnerability link is exposed in a note available at their website. In general, cross-site scripting refers to that hacking technique that leverages vulnerabilities in the code of a web application to allow a...

Israeli Hackers Leak Credit Card Data from Palestine ISP

Along war with airstrikes between Israel and Palestine, Cyber war between hackers from both country on fire. First Hackers from all over world who supporting Palestine start attacking Israeli sites, now a hacker going by name "yourikan" has leaked a complete database from an ISP called PALNET...

Airline, Myspace, Banks, Government websites vulnerable to Hackers

Cross Site Scripting XSS is currently the most common vulnerability in the world. This is vulnerability of some host which allows anyone to inject code/scripts into the page. The injected scripts could be html tags, javascript script, vbscript scripts. A Hacker with virtual name 'Human mind...

'The Hacker News' Celebrating 2nd Birthday

One of the most awaited occasions in a year is your birthday, same way we are today celebrating 'The Hacker News' 2nd Birthday week from on 28th October-3rd November 2012. Originally founded on 1st November 2010 by Mohit Kumar, 'The Hacker News' was the very First dedicated Hacking and Security...

CVE-2012-4501 : Critical vulnerability warned in Cloudstack

Citrix and the Apache Software Foundation have alerted users to a critical vulnerability in the CloudStack open source cloud infrastructure management software. The vulnerability affects all versions of Cloudstack prior to October 7, including the Citrix commercial version. Vulnerability could...

WhatsApp vulnerability can be misused for Spreading Malware

A Cross site scripting XSS vulnerability in WhatsApp website reported to The Hacker News by Edgard Chammas. WhatsApp is one of the most famous cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia used to send text, video, images, audio b/w Whatsapp users...

#Antisec Hackers hack FBI laptop and leak 12 Million Apple Device Records

The hacker group AntiSec released a file of a million and one UDIDs unique device identifiers which it claims to have hacked it off an FBI computer via a Java vulnerability. UDIDs are unique IDs for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. They said they obtained the file in March by hacking into the...

Al Jazeera News network website hacked by Pro-Assad hackers

The official website of one of the biggest Arabic-language news network "Al Jazeera" got hacked just now by Pro-Assad hackers called "Al-Rashedon". If your miss the deface page, please have a look to mirror of it Here. Deface page designed with Dark color as shown in image and have some message i...