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Penn State College of Engineering disables its network after two cyber attacks
The Penn State College of Engineering’s computer network has been temporarily disconnected from the Internet after its system was targeted by two cyber-attacks which were said to be advanced persistent...
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Address bar in Android browsers can be spoofed to lead to phishing attacks
Most of the time people identify malicious websites based on the URL in the address bar. A new vulnerability allows attackers to spoof that URL in android Stock browser and trick users into supplying...
View ArticleMillions Of Home Internet Users Vulnerable To Attack Due To Security Flaw in...
Millions of new home Internet connections for the telecom giant Verizon, after they purchased AOL for $4.4 billion. But vulnerability in its service may have put millions of their Internet customers at...
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Telstra reveals security breach in Pacnet's IT network
Australia’s biggest telecoms company Telstra revealed that the corporate IT network of Pacnet, the company acquired by it on April 16 this year, has been hacked.This breach came into light shortly...
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Distributed Denial of Service(DDOS) attacks
A well-known Indian security news portal was targeted on May 21st morning by a DDOS attack. 2 hours before the attack the company tweeted "NSA planned to hijack Google App Store and plant malware on...
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Adult dating site hacked to leak intimate secrets of 4 million users
Hackers have targeted one of the largest online dating sites of the world, Adult Friend Finder to leak personal data of four million users. The stolen data includes the sexual orientation of the users,...
View Article‘India should learn from Russia and China agreement’ says security expert
India should learn from the recent cyber-security agreement between Russia and China where both of the countries have agreed to not launch cyber-security attack against each other said an Indian...
View ArticleAn American admits hijacking plane mid-air: FBI
A security researcher told the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) he had hacked an airplane’s engine with his laptop. Chris Roberts admitted to hijacking a plane mid-flight in Feburary taking...
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Hack In Paris 5th edition - The French Cyber Security Conference
Sysdream, a French company which provides auditing skills and training from an attacker’s perspective to those companies which require a high level of security for their information systems, is...
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Astoria - Researchers develop a new Tor client which aims to beat NSA
With an aim to beat powerful intelligence: like NSA, researchers have developed Astoria, a new Tor client which is said to be capable of protecting user’s privacy, even from such powerful intelligence...
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Bettys Tea Rooms firm’s website hacked
The Bettys Tea Rooms firm’s website was hacked on Wednesday, affecting more than 120,000 customers.In a statement released by the company, they apologized, and blamed "industry-wide software weakness"...
View ArticleInformation of 4,000 students shared in accidental data breach
The personal information of 4,000 students who use the bus transportation system was put at risk by CPS, after they mistakenly sent out their personal information to five vendors who were seeking to do...
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Security and Privacy flaw in UC Browser leaks personally identifiable...
A visual summary of privacy and security issues presented by UC Browser. PC: Citizen LabA report has shown that a security and privacy flaw in a popular mobile web browser in India and China -...
View ArticleBeware of emails with subject titles like ‘Internship’ ‘My Resume’
Beware of emails with a subject like: ‘Any Jobs?’, ‘Any openings’, ‘Internship’, ‘Internship questions’, ‘Job questions’ and ‘My Resume’ as researchers have discovered a new strain of point-of-sale...
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Will Cyber Security Companies shift their Headquarters out of US?
Until now nuclear, radiological, chemical and biological weapons considered to be a Weapon of Mass Destruction(WMD). The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the United States Department...
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Emerson fixes SQL injection bug in AMS Device Manager
Emerson Process Management has released a patch for SQL Injection vulnerability in its AMS Device Manager application.Emerson AMS Device Manager is a software used worldwide primarily in the oil and...
View ArticleTop secret Saudi documents hacked and released to public
A group of hackers from Yemen have put out a message saying that they have hacked the servers of Saudi Arabia's Interior, Defense and Foreign and gained access to thousands of top secret documents."We...
View ArticleVancity urges its customer to change their debit cards
Hundreds of customers of Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, popularly known as Vancity which is one of the largest community credit unions in Canada, have been requested to change their debit cards...
View ArticleIndian online music streaming service Gaana website hacked by Pakistani hackers
Indian online music streaming service Gaana website has been hacked by Mak Man, Lahore, Pakistan, based hackers. Hacked database contains more than 12.5 million registered users.The hackers posted a...
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Data breach at IRS, taxpayers data at risk
The IRS put out a statement saying that criminals had breached the confidential data of approximately a 100,000 people. The hackers used sensitive data acquired from non-IRS sources - including Social...
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