Axis Bank Claims No Monetary Loss From Cyber Attack
(pc-Google Images)In the last three months, three financial institutions have faced data breaches. The most recent case of breach was seen in the case of Axis Bank- India’s third largest private sector...
View ArticleHackers crippled US internet
Friday morning was quite unusual for most of the people living across the parts of the United States as they were unable to access several world's best-known websites.A company, Dyn, which manages...
View ArticleMajor websites knocked down after cyberattack
Popular websites such as Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, SoundCloud, PayPal, Netflix and several others remained unreachable for part of the day after being hit by three web attacks on Friday (October...
View ArticleUK confirms using cyber warfare against ISIS
(pc-Google Images)The UK government has confirmed using cyber warfare in the bid to retake Mosul from Islamic State forces.In a conference, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the country had...
View ArticleMicrosoft opens first Cybersecurity Engagement Centre in India
Around the globe, everyone has been a victim of the cyber-attack directly or indirectly. To tackle this problem technology giant Microsoft has launched a full-scale Cybersecurity Engagement Centre...
View ArticleRussian Arrested For 2012 LinkedIn Website Hack
(pc-Google Images)The Czech police has arrested a Russian man in Prague in connection with the 2012 hacking of the LinkedIn site.LinkedIn Corp has said that the breach may have compromised credentials...
View ArticleWebcams hijacked in Dyn attack recalled
Chinese electronics company, Hangzhou Xiongmai has recalled its home webcams in the US which were hijacked last week in the massive distributed denial-of-service attack which had knocked down popular...
View ArticleHackers adopting new tactics, techniques and procedures
NTT security published a report focusing on how organizations need to have better penetration testing to reduce the continual changes in hackers’ tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).“Our Q3 2016...
View ArticleCyber attacks disrupts major websites
(pc-Google Images)Recent web attacks on many popular sites like Twitter, Spotify, Reddit, SoundCloud, PayPal have caused widespread online disruption. The attacks seemed to have been focused on Dyn,...
View ArticleLeslie Jones Slams Hackers And Trolls in SNL Takedown
(pc-google images)American comedian Leslie Jones isn’t afraid of being what she is. The Ghostbusters star fired back at hackers and trolls who have made her life difficult in the past few months....
View ArticleTeen hackers linked to addiction
It's quite shocking to believe that there is a parallel connection between the youngsters turning into hackers and how they become addicted to drugs and alcohol.But according to the report written...
View ArticleIndia's 'Debit Card' Wake-Up Call !
(pc-Google Images)The recent data breach of debit cards is said to be the largest rupture in the country’s banking system to date. The massive breach affected 3.2 Million Indian people and posed a...
View ArticleHospital Data In US Prone To Dark Web Attacks
(pc-Google Images)It is now becoming easier for cyber criminals to steal hospital data and records or hold patient data for ransom. Cybercriminals are sneaking into more and more health insurance...
View ArticleHackers awarded $215,000 for hacking Nexus 6P, iPhone 6S
Tencent Keen Security lab team won $215,000 for finding the security flaws in fully updated and patched Nexus 6P at a mobile-only Pwn2Own competition.The team from China accepted the challenge from the...
View ArticleCelebgate: Hacker gets 18-Month Sentence
A Pennsylvania hacker who stole more than 100 Apple and Google e-mail accounts, including those of several Hollywood celebrities in 2014, has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. In May...
View ArticleNew OLX App Enhances Security Features
(PC-Google Images)The new OLX app is designed in such a way that it enhances the security of the users especially women. OLX, now, comes with an enhanced security feature to help internet users who are...
View ArticleNude Photo Leaker Gets 18 months In Jail
(pc-Google Images)A Pennsylvania resident has been sentenced to 18 months in jail for hacking the accounts of celebrities and leaking their nude photos and videos.36-year-old Ryan Collins is pleaded...
View ArticleRussia Shuns Off E-mail Breach From Putin's Aide's Account
(Vladislav Surkov / pc-Google Images)Russia has brushed off hacking allegations and challenged the authenticity of leaked e-mails purportedly from the inbox of presidential aide Vladislav...
View ArticleAustralian Red Cross suffers Massive Data Breach
(PC-Google Images)In a major data breach, the personal details of more than half a million blood donors was compromised in a major hack at the Australian Red Cross.The compromised records, made up of...
View ArticleArizona Teen Arrested For Disrupting iPhone 911 Emergency Services
(PC-GOOGLE IMAGES)An 18-year-old teenager from Arizona has been arrested after he disrupted the emergency 911 system for the Phoenix metro area and surrounding states this week with a malicious link...
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