PlayStation Network seems to be at the receiving end of a barrage of ‘suspicious activity’ as just days after Sony reset passwords of some of its PSN users in Europe, it has…
Category: Security
Cryptolocker ransomware scammers offering discounts as Bitcoin prices soar
Cryptolocker has been making the headlines lately after National Cyber Crime Unit of UK warned of a large spam attack involving the ransomware and more recently because Swansea Massachusetts police department in…
Evernote asking users to change passwords following Adobe hack
Evernote has compared the database leaked from Adobe hack with its own and is asking users who used the same email address on both the services to change their passwords. Evernote, through…
Microsoft announces message encryption for Office 365
Microsoft has announced its plans of automatically encrypting emails on its Office 365 service by early 2014 through its new feature which it calls Office 365 Message Encryption. Under this new feature…
Sony resets passwords of some EU PSN users as a ‘precautionary measure’
Sony has reset passwords of an undisclosed number of its PlayStation Network users based out of the EU as a ‘precautionary measure’ after it observed ‘irregular activity’. A PSN support coordinator has…
LG spying on its smart TV customers
An unidentified blogger has claimed that his Internet-connected smart television has been transmitting detailed information including the times and channels his family members watch and even the names of all computer video…
US police department gives in on Cryptolocker ransom demand; shells out £470
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….
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…
Microsoft: We erred in recent Patch Tuesday; Internet Explorer zero-day still unpatched
Microsoft has revealed that it messed up in its recent Patch Tuesday bulletin by including details about the Internet Explorer zero-day that shouldn’t have been there in the first place as the…
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…
Researchers detect smartphone unlock codes, PINs through mic and camera
Researchers over at Cambridge University have created an app to demonstrate the ease with which smartphones PINs can be detected using microphone and camera of the device. The scientists, using an app…
D-Link 2760N routers marred with reflected, stored XSS flaws
A security researcher has reported a number of reflected and stored XSS flaws in D-Link’s 2760N routers (DSL-2760U-BN) through full disclosure mailing list. Liad Mizrachi, the researcher who revealed the flaws, claimed…
Attack tool targeting Obamacare website Healthcare.gov released
An attack tool that specifically targets Healthcare.gov has been released by a hacktivists that go by the name “Destroy Obama Care!” Claimed to be a means for launching a Distributed Denial of…