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Hotel guests locked up after ransomware hits Austrian 4-star
The electronic key system of Romantik Seehotel Jaegerwirt in Austrian Alps was compromised by hackers, forcing managers to pay a bitcoin ransom in order to recover it.The 4-star hotel's systems were...
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WordPress secretly fixes serious security vulnerability
The core development team of WordPress revealed that a critical zero-day vulnerability was quietly patched by a recent update to the content management system.The vulnerability was discovered by a...
View ArticleDark Web Paying Corporate staffs to Leak secrets
This is not the first time when 'Dark Web' is in news for their notorious deeds, this time they are in news for paying corporate workers to leak information most importantly stock prices (earnings...
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Indian court grants ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ in a rare case
In the Internet age when the information is at a step of a click, it’s difficult to be hidden but in a rare case to protect the dignity of a woman, the Karnataka High court made a landmark judgment and...
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RANSOMWARE ATTACK IN D.C. COMPROMISED CCTV NETWORK
(pc-Google Images)A ransomware infected storage devices used by the Washington DC CCTV systems, eight days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump and affected 70% of the network.The attacks...
View ArticlePhishing attack on PayPal
Sometimes back Gmail users were targeted with a phishing scam while recently PayPal has been affected by a similar phishing attack. PayPal is one of the most used online payment systems in the world...
View ArticleSevere Content Injection Vulnerability on WordPress Website
People goes after anything that is free without thinking about any consequences. WordPress is one of the most popular and easy to handle content management system (CMS) in the world. So a small...
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RANSOMWARES AT LARGE, BREAK INTO GOVERNING BODIES
(pc-Google Images)In another interesting series of what happens when you don’t manage your backups correctly, the Licking County government offices, including the police, have been shut down by...
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AFTER KASPERSKY, FSB OFFICIALS FACE TREASON CHARGES
(pc-Google Images)Two of Moscow’s top cybersecurity officials are facing treason charges for cooperating with the CIA. The accusations further highlight intrigue to a mysterious scandal that has had...
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The changing face of ransomware attacks
(pc-Google Images)An Austrian hotel was recently attacked by a ransomware which lead to the lost control of its door locks, keeping new guests stranded in the lobby.A police department in Cockrell...
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New Ad Malware in Play Store
Software Company, Symantec has revealed three malicious android apps that click on ads without their user's knowledge by fooling the security scanners. After the revelation, Google had removed those...
View ArticleTwo Arrested for hacking Washington's CCTV Network
UK's National Crime Agency has arrested two suspects who allegedly hacked the CCTV network of Washington and installed ransomware.An NCA spokesperson confirmed the news via email to Bleeping...
View ArticleDarknet follows bug bounty lead
Closed networks are not solely hotbeds of crime and depravity, now darknet marketplace too hopes on putting bounties on bugs which can help improve security for its clientele.Dark net black markets are...
View ArticleResearchers’ find way to protect quantum computing networks from hacking
Chinese researchers have discovered the way to protect quantum computing networks from external attacks. They have managed to build “the first high-dimensional quantum cloning machine capable of...
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Stay protected against USB sticks
The USB (Universal Serial Bus) has become a ubiquitous storage device for consumers and businesses alike in which they store everything under the sun-work files to personal clicks. Businesses often...
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Anonymous hacker knocks down 20% of Dark Web’s child Pornography
A hacktivist breached the largest host of Dark web-sites, Freedom Hosting II on February 03 and took down around 10,613 .onion websites, nearly a fifth of the Dark Web for hosting child pornography.The...
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nullcon Information Security Conference 8Bit, Goa 2017
nullcon was founded in 2010 with the idea of providing an integrated platform for exchanging information on the latest attack vectors, zero day vulnerabilities and unknown threats. Our motto - "The...
View ArticleSamara region protected from cyber-threatening through FinCERT
The Department of information technologies and communications of Samara region (in the Russian Federation) had tied up with the FinCERT (center for monitoring and responding to computer attacks in the...
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Duqu malware’s descendant strikes over 140 organisations across the globe
The security firm, Kaspersky has a descendant of ugly malware, Stuxnet which has infected more than 140 companies, banks, government groups and telecom companies. Because infections are so hard to...
View ArticleHacker hijacked more than 150,000 printers
For many of us hacking of printers seems to be next to impossible thing. But, a hacker has hacked more than 150,000 printers via the internet.The attack affected all kinds of printers- from home...
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