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…
Category: Security
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…
Microsoft releases ‘Fix it’ for remote code execution flaw in Windows, Office
Microsoft has released a temporary emergency fix addressing a security flaw in its graphics component that affects Windows, Office and Lync and if exploited can lead to remote code execution. Microsoft revealed…
Adobe hack password dump analysis shows users still pathetic at choosing passwords
A password security expert at Stricture Consulting Group has revealed top 100 passwords being used by Adobe’s customers and has claimed that nearly two million of them used the easily guessable string…
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…
Briton charged with hacking US Government, military networks
Lauri Love, a Briton in his late twenties, has been arrested in UK on charges of violating the Computer Misuse Act in the UK and accessing a U.S. government computer without permission…
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…
Researcher discovers stored XSS flaw in GMail for iOS, gets $5,000 reward
A security researcher has found a cross site scripting (XSS) flaw in Gmail for iOS app that gets triggered without any user intervention. Roy Castillo, the researcher who found the flaw, notes…
Shortage of cyber crime fighters to affect anti-hacker fight back
Governments and corporations facing cyber attacks are struggling hard to search for the right cyber warriors that too in enough numbers to fight back against increasing cyber attacks. According to reports, Government…
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…
Chrome caches personal data in plain text leaving users vulnerable to data theft
Google Chrome has come under fire for the second time in under three months and this time around it is for the caching method it employs which leaves users vulnerable to data…