Las Vegas Sands casino websites hacked and defaced by Anti WMD Team
Las Vegas Sands Corp which is said to be the world largest casino operator, has been targeted by hackers. Websites of Sands casino and its subsidiaries have been defaced.The sites home page modified...
View Article400Gbps NTP-based DDOS attack hits CloudFlare - largest DDOS attack in History
Until a week ago, it was believed that Distributed denial-of-service(DDOS) attack against Spamhaus is the largest one in the history. Now, an even bigger DDOS attack has been recorded by the Content...
View ArticleAnonymous hacktivists launch DDOS attack against GCHQ website
It seems like Anonymous hackers have launched a Distributed denial of service(ddos) attack against GCHQ website.The attack just came after Edward Snowden leaked a document which revealed that British...
View ArticleBitcoin stealing Mac malware found to be hosted on Download.com and...
Image Credits: ThreatPost. Another variant of the recently discovered Mac Trojan "OSX/CoinThief" is found to be hosted on two popular download websites Download.com and MacUpdate.com.CoinThief malware...
View ArticleTarget data breach started with a Spear phishing attack targeting HVAC firm
A latest information on Target data breach published by security blogger Brian Krebs shows the power of Social Engineering attacks. It appears everything began from a spear phishing attack in which...
View ArticleCVE-2014-0050: Apache Tomcat vulnerable to Denial of service attack
If you are a developer, you should always be careful when writing loops especially an endless loops [ for(;;) or while(true) ] which are coded to be stopped by an 'if' statement. Security researchers...
View ArticleSyrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes website and twitter accounts
Forbes, american business magazine, is appeared to be the latest victim of the Syrian Electronic Army. The group has managed to post articles entitled "hacked by syrian electronic army".The group is...
View ArticleAndroid SMS malware hosted on Google Play infects 1.2 Million users
Experts often suggest to download android apps only from Google Play to avoid malware infection. But, it doesn't mean that we can trust all of the apps hosted on Google. Security researchers from...
View ArticleKickStarter kicked by Hackers, username and password stolen
Online Crowdfunding website KickStarter is to be the latest high-profile website reporting security breach. KickStarter became aware of the breach, after receiving a notification from Law enforcement....
View ArticleTwo Students hacked Data InfoSys website to recharge mobile phones worth Rs.8...
Two Information Technology(IT) students have been arrested by Jaipur cyber crime police for hacking Data InfoSys e-processing system and fraudulently recharging BSNL mobile phones. Kulshrestha Varma...
View ArticleHackers compromised 300k personal records from University of Maryland
Hackers breached University of Maryland's computer and compromised data belong to more than 300,000 people affiliated with the school on its College Park and Shady Grove campuses.Details of students,...
View ArticleEC Council official website hacked
A hacker who calls himself "Eugene Belford" (A character from the movie "Hackers" )has hacked the EC-Council website - an organization that offers Certified Ethical Hacker(CEH)"Owned by certified...
View ArticleYouTube ads serve Banking Trojan Caphaw
Number of Malvertising attacks are appeared to be increasing day by day, even top websites fall victim to such kind of attacks - YouTube is to be the latest popular organization affected by malicious...
View ArticleRussian Today (RT) news website hacked
On Sunday, the famous Russian news website RT.com has bee hacked and defaced. The hackers gained access to the admin panel of the RT website and managed to publish several articles containing "Nazi"...
View ArticleDefcon Kerala Information Security Meet 2014
DEFCON KERALA chapter is pleased to announce that the second edition of DEFCON Kerala 2014 will be held on March 8th at Hotel Travancore Court, Kochi. DEFCON Kerala (DC0497) is the first DEFCON Chapter...
View ArticleHackers compromise 300,000 SOHO routers and changed DNS to redirect to...
A security researchers at Team Cymru have uncovered a Pharming attack campaign targeting Small office and Home office(SOHO) routers. So far, more than 300k SOHO routers have been compromised. The...
View ArticleBitcoin Bank Flexcoin website hacked, $600,000 worth Bitcoins stolen
Bitcoin Bank "FlexCoin" website has been closed after reportedly hackers attacked the site and stole 896 bitcoins worth $600,320. The organization claims the attack happened on March 2nd, in which...
View ArticleBitcoin Exchange Poloniex website got hacked
Here comes another hacking news related to Bitcoin. Multi crypto currency exchange Poloniex has announced today that their website suffered a cyber attack, leading to Bitcoins being stolen from their...
View ArticleCritical Bug in GnuTLS library affects Linux and hundreds of apps
A critical bug(CVE-2014-0092) in handling the errors in the GNU Security library GnuTLS affects hundreds of software packages including RedHat, Debian and Ubuntu distros. According to RedHat security...
View ArticleEuropean Apple users targeted with phishing emails
A new phishing campaign targeting European users of Apple store which promises to offer a discount.Security researchers at Kaspersky have spotted a new spam mail targeting Apple users, tricks users...
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