Oracle is set to release one of the biggest security patch update this Tuesday comprising of 147 patches, 36 of which address vulnerabilities in Java. Oracle has categorized January 14 patch update…
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Anonymous hacks MIT website on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide
Anonymous is at it again and has defaced the Cogeneration project page of MIT on the anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide. The project’s webpage is still defaced as of this writing and…
Dropbox hits by DDoS, but user data safe; The 1775 Sec claims responsibility
Dropbox website went offline last night with a hacking collecting calling itself The 1775 Sec claiming responsibility of the attack on the cloud storage company’s website. The 1775 Sec took to twitter…
Microsoft to patch an important Windows XP vulnerability this Patch Tuesday
Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday addresses a total of four vulnerabilities including one present in Windows XP and Windows 2003, which was reportedly being exploited in the wild in November last year. None…
Yahoo’s malware laden ads turned millions of PCs into Bitcoin mining machines
Recent malware laden ads that showed up on Yahoo websites wasn’t just infecting vulnerable systems with Trojans, they were also dropping Bitcoin mining software onto victim systems in a bid to create…
Samsung issues official response to Knox vulnerability claims
Samsung has issued an official response to address claims that Knox was vulnerable stating that the security suite isn’t vulnerable and users need not worry as long as they properly configure the…
Snapchat says sorry 9 days after security breach
Snapchat Inc. has released an update to its messaging app and along with it issued an apology for the December 31 breach which exposed details of over 4.6 million users. Snapchat earlier…
LinkedIn sues unknown hackers for scraping data from real profiles, creating fake ones
LinkedIn has filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California against an unknown group of hackers who allegedly used automated software to scrape data from real profiles on…
Microsoft to abandon Security Essentials alongside Windows XP on April 8
Microsoft is set to pull the plug on Windows XP on April 8 this year and along with that it will also abandon Security Essentials for Windows XP, the company has revealed….
Google, Facebook working to secure accounts using physical keys
It has been months since Google is blowing its anti-password trumpet and latest reports indicate that the search engine giant and Facebook both may be working on securing users accounts using physical…
Researchers develop ‘narrative authentication’ system
Researchers have developed a ‘narrative authentication’ system that could put an end to the need of remembering complex passwords to logging onto computer systems. The new system has been developed by Carson…
New Cryptolocker variant that spreads through USB drives discovered
Cryptolocker has gained a new capability – ability to spread over USB drives – thereby increasing its attack surface and adding to the worries of security researcher and security companies. According to…
Yahoo reportedly serving malicious advertisements
Users visiting yahoo.com are being reportedly served with malicious advertisements, which when clicked upon and were redirected to an exploit kit via HTTP redirect. Security firm FOX IT revealed yesterday that they came…
SnapchatDB.info back online as Snapchat promises app update
Update [03/01/2014 23:16 GMT] We have heard back from the hackers and according to them SnapchatDB.info was taken offline because their “hosting provider was intimidated by the overwhelming public interest.” “It wasn’t…
Steam & Origin servers hit by separate DDoS attacks
The same individual / group which claimed the responsibility of taking down Dota 2, LoL, Quake Live, Club Penguin, Battle.net servers a couple of days back have taken down EA’s Origin servers…