Author Archives: Swati Khandelwal

Radio Stations Hacked to Play “F**k Donald Trump” on Repeat Across the Country

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It’s just two weeks into the Trump presidency, but his decisions have caused utter chaos around the country.

One such order signed by the president was banning both refugees and visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, and Sudan) from entering the United States, resulting in unexpectedly arrest of some travelers at airports.

Now, it seems

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Critical WordPress REST API Bug: Prevent Your Blog From Being Hacked!

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Last week, WordPress patched three security flaws, but just yesterday the company disclosed about a nasty then-secret zero-day vulnerability that let remote unauthorized hackers modify the content of any post or page within a WordPress site.

The nasty… Continue reading Critical WordPress REST API Bug: Prevent Your Blog From Being Hacked!→

Police Arrested Suspected Hacker Who Hacked the ‘Hacking Team’

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Remember the Hacker who hacked Hacking Team?

In 2015, a hacker named Phineas Fisher hacked Hacking Team – the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide – and exposed some 500 gigabytes of internal data for anyone to download.

Now, the Spanish authorities believe that they have arrested Phineas Fisher, who was not just behind the embarrassing

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Check If Your Netgear Router is also Vulnerable to this Password Bypass Flaw

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Again bad news for consumers with Netgear routers: Netgear routers hit by another serious security vulnerability, but this time more than two dozens router models are affected.

Security researchers from Trustwave are warning of a new authentication vu… Continue reading Check If Your Netgear Router is also Vulnerable to this Password Bypass Flaw→

Over 70% of Washington DC’s CCTV Were Hacked Before Trump Inauguration

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Just days before the inauguration of President Donald Trump, cyber criminals infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from feds surveillance cameras in Washington D.C. in a cyber attack.

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Google becomes its own Root Certificate Authority

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In an effort to expand its certificate authority capabilities and build the “foundation of a more secure web,” Google has finally launched its root certificate authority.

In past few years, we have seen Google taking many steps to show its strong supp… Continue reading Google becomes its own Root Certificate Authority→

AlphaBay Dark Web Marketplace Hacked; Exposes Over 200,000 Private Messages

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AlphaBay, possibly the largest active dark web marketplace at the moment, has paid a hacker after he successfully exploited vulnerabilities in the internal mailing system of the website and hijacked over 200,000 private unencrypted messages from severa… Continue reading AlphaBay Dark Web Marketplace Hacked; Exposes Over 200,000 Private Messages→

Nasty Android Malware that Infected Millions Returns to Google Play Store

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HummingBad – an Android-based malware that infected over 10 million Android devices around the world last year and made its gang an estimated US$300,000 per month at its peak – has made a comeback.

Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the HummingBad malware hiding in more than 20 Android apps on Google Play Store.

The infected apps were already downloaded by over 12 Million

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Nasty Android Malware that Infected Millions Returns to Google Play Store

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HummingBad – an Android-based malware that infected over 10 million Android devices around the world last year and made its gang an estimated US$300,000 per month at its peak – has made a comeback.

Security researchers have discovered a new variant of the HummingBad malware hiding in more than 20 Android apps on Google Play Store.

The infected apps were already downloaded by over 12 Million

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Over 199,500 Websites Are Still Vulnerable to Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug

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It’s more than two and half years since the discovery of the critical OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, but the flaw is still alive as it appears that many organizations did not remediate properly to the serious security glitch.

It was one of the bigg… Continue reading Over 199,500 Websites Are Still Vulnerable to Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug→