Hackers are increasingly targeting paid-for-apps on Google and Apple mobile platforms with latest reports indicating that hackers have managed to hack 100 percent of the top 100 apps on Android while they…
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Techie News to cover Nullcon 2014
Techie News will be covering Nullcon 2014 to be held at Goa between February 12 and 15. Celebrating its fifth anniversary this year, the primary idea behind Nullcon is to provide “an…
Creator of Blackhole exploit kit ‘Paunch’ arrested
Creator of one of the most feared and successful cybercrime tools, Blackhole Exploit Kit, known as ‘Paunch’ has been arrested along with 12 others and has been charged with creating and participating…
Anonymous hackers plead guilty in PayPal DDoS attack
A group of hackers linked with the notorious Anonymous hacking collective have pleaded guilty in the 2010 PayPal Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. Out of the thirteen hackers, ten pleaded guilty…
Sony resets PSN passwords for some users, again
Sony has sent emails to multiple PSN users informing them that it has reset their passwords because of detection of irregular activity on PlayStation Network. The email, a copy of which was…
At least 150 hit by Cryptolocker in the UK
Cryptolocker has hit a reported 157 Britons according to a latest report by UK’s National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB). The NFIB said in a blog post that it has received 157 reports…
138 Cryptolocker C&C domains identified, taken down
Cryptolocker has been menacing gullible users, encrypting their files and demanding ransom in lieu of a private decryption key. Users and even law enforcement agencies have been succumbing to the demands and…
Vodafone Iceland hacked; data of over 70k users stolen
Vodafone Iceland was hacked on November 29 within initial breach only pegged to website defacement; however, after initial investigation the company confirmed that attackers have had accessed customer information as well as…
D-Link SOHO networking devices contain hardcoded telnet credentials in plaintext
Reports of networking vendors hardcoding credentials in their SOHO routers is increasingly becoming a commonplace with the latest one being D-Link, which has hardcoded telnet credentials in quite few of its routers…
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Time magazine’s Twitter account
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has managed to hack it way through Time’s Twitter account and posted tweets hailing the Syrian President. The Twitter account was reportedly hacked on Friday and a…
Captcha bypass vulnerability in Pastebin discovered
A security researcher has discovered a captcha bypass vulnerability in Pastebin and has opted for full disclosure as the online pasting tool has failed to resolve the issue even after multiple reminders….
Google Nexus 5 vulnerable to denial-of-service attack
Google Nexus smartphones including the latest Google Nexus 5 running Android 4.4 KitKat are vulnerable to denial-of-service attack via Flash SMS messages; it has been revealed on Friday during DefCamp security conference…
Windows XP local privilege escalation zero-day discovered; Microsoft initiates investigation
Security researchers have warned of a local privilege escalation bug in Windows XP, the exploit code was which is already available on the net. FireEye researchers revealed through a blog post that…
European Parliament culls public Wi-Fi access after email hack
A white hat hacker managed to break into multiple email accounts thereby forcing the European Parliament to cutoff its public Wi-Fi access. The French security researcher apparently performed man-in-the-middle attacks on multiple…
Adobe: It is ‘taking longer than expected’ to alert affected users
Adobe, which suffered from a severe security breach recently, has admitted that its timeline of alerting affected users is stretching and is ‘taking longer than expected’. Adobe came across evidence that its…