Swansea Massachusetts police department, in a bid to get back all the data locked away by the Cryptolocker, shelled out $750 to buy two bitcoins and pay the ransom demand by criminals….
Tag: Security
Marissa Mayer: Yahoo to extend encryption to all its products by 2014
Yahoo on Monday resolved to extend encryption to all its services and products by early 2014 amidst reports that government agencies specifically the NSA was intercepting server traffic between Google and Yahoo…
National Cyber Crime Unit: UK under huge ransomware spam attack
The newly formed National Cyber Crime Unit of the UK has sent out an alert stating that millions of Britons are at the receiving end of a huge ransomware spam attack appearing…
LulzSec’s Jeremy Hammond gets 10 years for Stratfor hack
Jeremy Hammond has been sentenced to 10 years in jail plus an additional 3 years of supervised release for his involvement in Stratfor hack. The LulzSec hacker was sentenced at the federal…
Bitcash.cz hacked; Bitcoin wallets of 4000 users emptied
What seems to be a trend now, another online repository and Bitcoin exchange, Bitcash.cz, based out of Czech Republic has been hacked and wallets of as many as 4000 users have been…
Adobe hack exposed 152 million accounts; company refutes
A security firm has claimed that it has uncovered data belonging to 152 million Adobe user accounts indicating that the numbers provided by the Photoshop maker may not be reflective of the…
Secure Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io hacked; unable to pay all user balances
Update November 7 @ 08:40 We have heard back from Inputs.io. According to a reply we received on our email, the service was hacked on October 24 and the wallet claims that…
NIST initiates cryptographic standards review over NSA foul play
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced review of all its previous recommendations in wake of recent reports of secret NSA meddling leading to weakening of standards making it…
Adobe: At least 38 million users impacted; Photoshop source code accessed by hackers
Update @ 21:09 GMT Wiebke Lips, Sr. Manager Corporate Communication at Adobe, has clarified in an emailed statement that Adobe is still investigating the security breach and the information pertaining to 2.9…
Flash Player sandboxed in Mac OS X Mavericks Safari
Adobe has worked with Apple to implement sandboxing for Flash Player in Safari browser for the Mac OS X Mavericks to restrict malicious code from running outside of the browser and to…
Google unveils uProxy, Project Shield & Digital Attack Map
As part of the service package specially designed to pillar internet access in the most disturbed and restricted areas; protect websites from massive DDoS attacks; and general internet users visualize and keep…
Adobe hackers may have hacked PR Newswire
PR Newswire, one of the most popular marketing and press release distribution services, was hacked on or after March 8 it has been revealed. According to a report by Brian Krebs hackers…
Indonesia tops cyber-attack charts, China comes in second
According to latest reports its not China that leads the pack of countries from which most of the cyber-attacks emanate, but Indonesia accounting for nearly 40 percent of all attacks in cyber…
D-Link acknowledges router backdoor, will patch it by end of the month
D-Link has acknowledged the presence of a backdoor in version 1.13 of its firmware and has announced that it will be releasing an update to fix the issue by end of the…
D-Link router firmware contains hardcoded backdoor
Security researcher Craig Heffner has found a serious vulnerability in D-Link routers wherein the firmware code contains a hardcoded backdoor which will allow access to the administrative settings of the router simply…