ICANN has announced that majority of top level domains in the root have DNSSEC and the overall implementation of the DNS Security Extensions has surpassed 50 percent milestone. Described as one of…
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Google announces Pwnium 4; over $2.7 million in bounty up for grabs
Google has announced the fourth edition of its Pwnium competition for Chrome OS this March at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver. Continuing the trend starting 2013, those who can hack Chrome…
Snapchat account registration CAPTCHA defeated
Snapchat’s security troubles continue as a security researcher has managed to hack its account registration CAPTCHA system with a program of less than 100 lines that took 30 minutes to develop. Steve…
Official Perl blog hacked; details of over 2900 users leaked
Islamic Cyber Resistance (ICR) hackers have hacked official Perl blog today and leaked details of nearly 3000 users online. The hackers defaced the blog in an unobtrusive way by leaving a page…
WhatsApp for PC is a banking Trojan in disguise
A spam email campaign claiming to provide WhatsApp for PC download is circulating on the web and according to security experts it spreads banking Trojan with low detection rate. WhatsApp, the messaging…
Cisco: 99% of all mobile malware in 2013 targeted Android
Android malware days are far away from over as Cisco claims in its 2014 latest Annual Security Report that 99 percent of all mobile malware targeted Android devices last year. Android malware…
SEA hacks into official Microsoft Office blog
The Syrian Electronic Army has kept to its word and continues its attack on Microsoft’s digital assets – the latest in line of fire being the official Office blog. Just a few…
Cisco: There is a shortage of more than a million security professionals globally
Cisco’s 2014 Annual Security Report claims that as governments, organisations and IT industry as a whole is failing to cope with the ever increasing number of cyber attacks and security breaches, there…
Amazon hosts 16% of global malware as cyber-criminals go cloud hunting
Amazon Web Services is a popular choice among cyber-criminals for hosting their warez – a whopping 16 percent of global malware – security company Solutionary claims through its Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report…
Android vulnerability allows interception of VPN data, researchers claim
Security researchers over at the Ben Gurion University (BGU), Israel claim to have discovered a vulnerability in Android that allows for interception of encrypted data travelling over a VPN in plain text….
Microsoft backpedals on Security Essentials for Windows XP decision; extends support till July 2015
Microsoft has softened its stand on Security Essentials for Windows XP and has extended support for its antimalware software till July 2015. Microsoft has noted that although operating system patches including security…
Researchers develop mathematical model to predict next cyber attack
Researchers over at the University of Michigan claim that cyber attacks follow a pattern that is predictable and to prove their claims they have developed a mathematical model to predict the attacks….
Government wants Brits to be Cyber Streetwise
With a massive increase in the number of people browsing the web on laptops, tablets and smartphones, it’s high time that people should be made aware of skills and knowledge which will…
SEA’s latest target: Microsoft’s official blog, MSFT News Twitter feed, [and possibly] employee email accounts
Syrian Electronic Army kept to its words of ‘Game On..’, which the hacking collective promised during its Xbox Support Twitter account hack and hijacked Microsoft’s official blog, Microsoft’s News Twitter feed and…
SEA hijacks official Xbox Support Twitter account
Syrian Electronic Army managed to hijack official Xbox Support Twitter account and posted a series of tweets. Signs of possible hijack came in the form of a couple of tweets wherein the…