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Hackers Dumped One-Gigabyte Leaked Emails and Documents From Putin’s Advisor

Recently a cache of 2,337 e-mails from the office of a high-ranking advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin was dumped on the Internet after purportedly being obtained by a Ukrainian hacking group calling itself CyberHunta. The cache shows that the Putin government communicated with separatist forces in Eastern Ukraine, receiving lists of casualties and expense reports […]

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The Only Realistic Plan to Avoid DDoS Disaster Might Be “End of Anonymity”

Experts said that the cyberattacks using the internet of things (IoT) is a taste of disruptions to come. The attack, which affected a number of major websites primarily in east coast of the United States, reportedly used Internet-enabled cameras as a platform for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The attackers exploited manufacturer-set passwords […]

Lyft Customer Alarmed On Data Breach With Recycled Numbers
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Lyft Customer Alarmed On Data Breach With Recycled Numbers

Taxi hailing service, Lyft, has been pit on high alert after users of the American based ride sharing app reported that they had noticed attempts at fraudulent transactions made on their debit cards. One of the Lyft service users, Lara Miller saw two charges on her debit card earlier this month, and they showed that […]

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Best VPN for Mobile Security

Mobile devices give you almost all the power and functionality of a computer on the go. Since they have become more affordable and they can be used to connect to internet and access a wide range of applications and services, many people have opted for getting a tablet, or a smartphone instead of a computer. […]

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Nuclear Plants Leak Critical Alerts in Unencrypted Pager Messages

A fairly large number of critical infrastructure organizations have been found relying on unsecured pagers for communication between employees, which security experts believe could potentially expose them to hack and espionage. In a report by Trend Micro, a L.A.-based security software company, researchers said: “Our research on unencrypted pager messages led us to discover which […]

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Android Phones Rooted by DirtyCow, Could Be Most Serious Linux Escalation Bug Ever

There’s a new method for rooting Android devices that’s believed to work reliably on every version of the mobile operating system and a wide array of hardware, and it could be the most serious Linux escalation bug ever. Independent security researcher David Manouchehri said that this proof-of-concept code that exploits Dirty Cow on Android gets […]

Hackers managed to get access to webcams to take down the Internet
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Hackers managed to get access to webcams to take down the Internet

One Chinese security firm has admitted that their products were used in the massive cyber attack which took place at the end of last week and saw millions of Internet users being limited in access. The threat highlighted the global problems with the connected devices we have in our houses. The cyber attackers who attacked […]

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Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases

Electronic surveillance is a way of monitoring a home, business, or individual using a variety of devices such as CCTV, television, wiretapping, cameras, digital video equipment, and other electronic, digital, and audio-visual means. U.S. secret law enforcement requests to conduct electronic surveillance in domestic criminal cases have surged in federal courts for Northern Virginia and the […]

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Mozilla Completely Distrusts WoSign CA, WoSign “Accepts” Sanctions and Puts SSL Certificates On Sale

Mozilla announced its final decision over the WoSign Certificate Authority (CA) reviews on October 20, 2016. According to the announcement, Mozilla will no longer trust any CA certificates issued by WoSign from October 21 onwards. The change of trust to distrust will also go into the Firefox 51 release train. “Mozilla has discovered that a […]

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China Electronics Firm to Recall Some U.S. Products after Friday’s DDoS Attacks

Chinese firm Hangzhou Xiongmai said it will recall some of its products sold in the United States after it was identified by security researchers as having made parts for devices that were targeted in a major hacking attack on Friday. Hackers unleashed a complex attack on the Internet through common devices like webcams and digital […]

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New Attack Allows Intercepting Every LTE Phone Call And Text

All LTE networks and devices are vulnerable to a new attack demonstrated at the Ruxon security conference in Melbourne, Australia. Ruxcon Hacker Wanqiao Zhang of Chinese hacking house Qihoo 360 has blown holes in 4G LTE networks by detailing how to intercept and make calls, send text messages and even force phones offline. The tested […]

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New Zealand Private Company Helps British GCHQ Surveil The World

Endace, a little-known New Zealand company, is discovered to have developed the Medusa system, named after the ancient Greek mythology snake demon, whose main purpose is to collect large amounts of high-speed Internet data. Its main customer is the British Government Communications General Administration GCHQ as well as other government agencies and telecommunications customers from […]

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Comodo Found to Send Certificates to the Wrong Persons Due to Faulty OCR

Comodo, which brands itself as “Global Leader in Cyber Security Solutions”, turns out to have a crappy backend and certification management systems. Two European security researchers exploited these systems to obtain a HTTPS certificate for a domain they do not own. The certification could be used to impersonate the website, allowing passwords and other sensitive […]

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A Massive Internet Power Outage Was Powered By Some Hacked IoTs

One massive Internet attack which was sustained over the last few weeks and resulted in Internet outages and network congestion has been retraced back to number of hacked of Internet of things devices which included the video cameras, digital video recorders as new data has shown. An internet infrastructure company going by the name Dyn, […]

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