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A critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers.
Exim maintainers toda… Continue reading New Critical Exim Flaw Exposes Email Servers to Remote Attacks — Patch Released
If you have an account with Microsoft Outlook email service, there is a possibility that your account information has been compromised by an unknown hacker or group of hackers, Microsoft confirmed The Hacker News.
Earlier this year, hackers managed to… Continue reading Hackers Compromise Microsoft Support Agent to Access Outlook Email Accounts
Facebook has been caught practicing the worst ever user-verification mechanism that could put the security of its users at risk.
Generally, social media or any other online service asks users to confirm a secret code or a unique URL sent to the email … Continue reading Facebook Caught Asking Some Users Passwords for Their Email Accounts
A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Karim Baratov (a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k… Continue reading Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison
The British teenager who managed to hack into the online accounts of several high-profile US government employees sentenced to two years in prison on Friday.
Kane Gamble, now 18, hacked into email accounts of former CIA director John Brennan, former D… Continue reading British Schoolboy Who Hacked CIA Director Gets 2-Year Prison Term
Another day, another data breach. This time one of the world’s “big four” accountancy firms has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack.
Global tax and auditing firm Deloitte has confirmed the company had suffered a cyber attack that resulted in… Continue reading Deloitte Hacked — Cyber Attack Exposes Clients’ Emails
A cyber attack has hit the email system of UK Houses of Parliament on Friday morning that breached at least 90 emails accounts protected by weak passwords belonging to MPs, lawmakers, and other parliamentary staff.
Meanwhile, as a precaution, the Secu… Continue reading UK Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Up to 90 MPs’ E-mail Accounts Hacked
Did someone just share a random Google Doc with you?
First of all — Do not click on that Google Doc link you might have just received in your email and delete it immediately — even if it’s from someone you know.
I, my colleagues at The Hacker News, and even people all around the Internet, especially journalists, are receiving a very convincing OAuth phishing email, which says that the person
Continue reading Warning! Don’t Click that Google Docs Link You Just Received in Your Email
In the digital world, it just takes one click to get the keys to the kingdom.
Do you know spear-phishing was the only secret weapon behind the biggest data breach in the history?
It’s true, as one of the Yahoo employees fell victim to a simple phishing attack and clicked one wrong link that let the hackers gain a foothold in the company’s internal networks.
You may be familiar with phishing
Continue reading Yahoo! Hack! How It Took Just One-Click to Execute Biggest Data Breach in History
Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet.
Now, according to the… Continue reading Hacker Selling Over 1 Million Decrypted Gmail and Yahoo Passwords On Dark Web