Collaborate Disseminate
SMS-based Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) has been declared insecure and soon it might be a thing of the past.
Two-Factor Authentication or 2FA adds an extra step of entering a random passcode sent to you via an SMS or call when you log in to your acc… Continue reading End of SMS-based 2-Factor Authentication; Yes, It’s Insecure!
Radio-based wireless keyboards and mice that use a special USB dongle to communicate with your PC can expose all your secrets – your passwords, credit card numbers and everything you type.
Back in February, researchers from the Internet of things security firm Bastille Networks demonstrated how they could take control of wireless keyboards and mice from several top vendors using so-called
Continue reading KeySniffer Lets Hackers Steal Keystrokes from Wireless Keyboards
Guess What? Someone just downloaded Twitter’s Vine complete source code.
Vine is a short-form video sharing service where people can share 6-second-long looping video clips. Twitter acquired the service in October 2012.
Indian Bug bounty hunter Avinash discovered a loophole in Vine that allowed him to download a Docker image containing complete source code of Vine without any hassle.
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Continue reading Hacker Downloaded Vine’s Entire Source Code. Here’s How…
Today, whistleblowing website Wikileaks has finally published more than 19,000 e-mails, which contains more than 8,000 attachments from the US Democratic National Committee (DNC).
The new trove of documents apparently pilfered from the DMC released af… Continue reading Hillary Leaks Series: Wikileaks releases 20,000 DNC Emails
The federal authorities have finally arrested the alleged mastermind behind the world’s largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site Kickass Torrents (KAT), the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday.
After The Pirate Bay had suffered… Continue reading Kickass Torrents — Domain Names Seized! Owner Arrested! Website Goes Down!
In Brief
Do you own an iPhone? Mac? Or any Apple device?
Just one specially-crafted message can expose your personal information, including your authentication credentials stored in your device’s memory, to a hacker.
The vulnerability is quite simila… Continue reading Beware! Your iPhone Can Be Hacked Remotely With Just A Message
Smart hackers could exploit a loophole that could allow them to steal a significant amount of cash from Google, Microsoft and Instagram using a Premium rate phone number.
Security researcher Arne Swinnen from Belgium has discovered an ingenious way to… Continue reading That’s A Clever Hack! How anyone could make Money from Google and Microsoft
Pokémon GO launched just two weeks ago, and people have been getting crazy to catch ’em all.
Users, on an average, are spending more time engaged with the new Pokémon GO app than any other apps like Snapchat.
But, before downloading and playing Nintendo’s new location-based augmented reality game, users are required to keep the following points in their minds:
1. Unofficial Pokémon GO app
Continue reading Pokémon GO — 6 Important Things You Should Know Before Playing this Game
Why we can’t detect all security loopholes and patch them before hackers exploit them?
Because… we know that humans are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs, which is why vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, POODLE and GHOST remained undetected for decades and rendered almost half of the Internet vulnerable to theft by the time patches were rolled out.
Now to solve this hurdle, DARPA
Continue reading DARPA Challenges Hackers to Create Automated Hacking System — WIN $2 Million
Millions of Xiaomi smartphones are vulnerable to a dangerous remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that could grant attackers complete control of handsets.
The vulnerability, now patched, exists in MIUI – Xiaomi’s own implementation of the Android operating system – in versions prior to MIUI Global Stable 7.2 which is based on Android 6.0.
The flaw, discovered by IBM X-Force researcher
Continue reading Warning: Millions of Xiaomi Phones Vulnerable to Remote Hacking