You are not alone; WhatsApp is down for many (Updated)

By Carolina If you are wondering whats going on with the popular messenger app WhatsApp then you are not alone because its service is down in many countries. Although it is unclear whats going on and why the service is down theres a massive number of users complaining on Twitter. WhatsApp users i...

Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

By Jahanzaib Hassan Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out...

Super Free Music Player Android App Comes with Malware Infection

By Ali Raza A music app in the Google Play Store called Super Free Music Player turns out to be yet another malware-infected app that Google has missed. So far, between 5,000 and 10,000 people have downloaded it. The app was uploaded to the Play Store on March 31 this year, which means that it wa...

Unity 3D Forums Hacked by OurMine Hacking Group

By Waqas The OurMine hackers are back in the news again. This time the group hacked and defaced the official domain of Unity 3D Forums leaving a deface page along with a note over the weekend. The hack which took place on 30th April allowed the Saudi Arabia-based OurMine hacking group to...

Facebook Last Warning Phishing Scam Stealing Login, Credit Card Data

By Waqas Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most used social media networks with 1.86 billion monthly active users. Thats why its users are also under constant threat by hackers and cyber criminals. Recently, we discovered a phishing scam targeting Facebook users by tricking them into giving away...

A $22 Radio device to crack car’s security system

By Jahanzaib Hassan Cracking the wireless security systems of cars has been done in the past several times, but now researchers of Qihoo 360 showed that it’s a piece of cake if you have the right device. For better or worse, researchers of a Beijing-based security firm- Qihoo 360 built a gadget...

Flickr’ Account Takeover Vulnerability Patched, Researcher Gets $7k Bounty

By Jahanzaib Hassan A security researcher named “Michael Reizelman” privately disclosed a serious vulnerability in Flickr and earned a bounty of $7,000 in the process. A few days back, Michael spotted a critical flaw in the multimillion-image and video hosting website-Flickr through Yahoo’s...