Hacker Steals Money from Bank and Donates $11,000 to Anti-ISIS Group

Meet this Robin Hood Hacker:

Phineas Fisher, who breached Hacking Team last year, revealed on Reddit Wednesday that he hacked a bank and donated the money to Kurdish anti-capitalists in Rojava autonomous region in northern Syria that borders territory… Continue reading Hacker Steals Money from Bank and Donates $11,000 to Anti-ISIS Group

How to Decrypt TeslaCrypt Ransomware Files Using Master Key

Here’s some good news for victims who are trying to unlock and remove TeslaCrypt ransomware.

Now, you can decrypt all your important files that have been encrypted by TeslaCrypt ransomware.

So, stop Googling about How to decrypt TeslaCrypt Ransomware encrypted files, as the malware authors themselves provided the solution to your problem.
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Since its launch in March last year,

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This App Lets You Find Anyone’s Social Profile Just By Taking Their Photo

Is Google or Facebook evil? Forget it!

Russian nerds have developed a new Face Recognition technology based app called FindFace, which is a nightmare for privacy lovers and human right advocates.

FindFace is a terrifyingly powerful facial recognition… Continue reading This App Lets You Find Anyone’s Social Profile Just By Taking Their Photo

Microsoft removes its controversial Windows 10 Wi-Fi Sense Password Sharing Feature

Microsoft has finally decided to remove one of its controversial features Wi-Fi Sense network sharing feature from Windows 10 that shares your WiFi password with your Facebook, Skype and Outlook friends and enabled by default.

With the launch of Windows 10 last year, Microsoft introduced Wi-Fi Sense network sharing feature aimed at making it easy to share your password-protected WiFi network

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Kernel Backdoor found in Gadgets Powered by Popular Chinese ARM Maker

How to Hack an Android device?

It is possibly one of the most frequently asked questions on the Internet.

Although it’s not pretty simple to hack Android devices and gadgets, sometimes you just get lucky to find a backdoor access.

Thanks to Allwinne… Continue reading Kernel Backdoor found in Gadgets Powered by Popular Chinese ARM Maker

Facebook Open Sources its Capture the Flag (CTF) Platform

Hacking into computer, networks and websites could easily land you in jail. But what if you could freely test and practice your hacking skills in a legally safe environment?

Facebook just open-sourced its Capture The Flag (CTF) platform to encourage s… Continue reading Facebook Open Sources its Capture the Flag (CTF) Platform

Hacker Arrested after Exposing Flaws in Elections Site

A security researcher responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities in the poorly secured web domains of a Florida county elections, but he ended up in handcuffs on criminal hacking charges and jailed for six hours Wednesday.

Security researcher David Michael… Continue reading Hacker Arrested after Exposing Flaws in Elections Site

This 10-year-old Boy becomes the youngest Bug Bounty Hacker

“Talent has no Age Limit”

That’s what I said for a 10-year-old Finnish boy on our official Facebook page while sharing his recent achievement with our readers i.e. Winning $10,000 bug bounty from Instagram.

Last Tuesday when we at The Hacker News first acknowledged this talented boy and the flaw he discovered in image-sharing social network Instagram, I did not have an idea that the Facebook

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U.S. developing Technology to Identify and Track Hackers Worldwide

Without adequate analysis and algorithms, mass surveillance is not the answer to fighting terrorism and tracking suspects.

That’s what President Obama had learned last year when he signed the USA Freedom Act, which ends the bulk collection of domestic… Continue reading U.S. developing Technology to Identify and Track Hackers Worldwide