Donald Trump appoints a CyberSecurity Advisor Whose Own Site is Damn Vulnerable

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been appointed as a cyber security advisor for the President-elect Donald Trump, but it appears that he never actually checked the security defenses of his own company’s website.

Giuliani is going to … Continue reading Donald Trump appoints a CyberSecurity Advisor Whose Own Site is Damn Vulnerable

Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

The company that sells digital forensics and mobile hacking tools to others has itself been hacked.

Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investi… Continue reading Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

The company that sells digital forensics and mobile hacking tools to others has itself been hacked.

Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investi… Continue reading Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

Update — Hacker Claims to Have Hacked the FBI, But It Wasn’t

Update: A hacker yesterday claimed to have hacked the FBI’s website running on Plone CMS, but it seems it wasn’t hacked using any zero-day vulnerability in Plone. We contacted Plone security team and updated this story (see below) with official stateme… Continue reading Update — Hacker Claims to Have Hacked the FBI, But It Wasn’t

Update — Hacker Claims to Have Hacked the FBI, But It Wasn’t

Update: A hacker yesterday claimed to have hacked the FBI’s website running on Plone CMS, but it seems it wasn’t hacked using any zero-day vulnerability in Plone. We contacted Plone security team and updated this story (see below) with official stateme… Continue reading Update — Hacker Claims to Have Hacked the FBI, But It Wasn’t

Critical PHPMailer Flaw leaves Millions of Websites Vulnerable to Remote Exploit

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in PHPMailer, which is one of the most popular open source PHP libraries to send emails used by more than 9 Million users worldwide.

Millions of PHP websites and popular open source web applications, includ… Continue reading Critical PHPMailer Flaw leaves Millions of Websites Vulnerable to Remote Exploit

Websites of Indian Embassy in 7 Countries Hacked; Database Leaked Online

Indian embassy websites in seven different countries have been hacked, and attackers have leaked personal data, including full name, residential address, email address, passport number and phone number, of Indian citizens living abroad.

This incident … Continue reading Websites of Indian Embassy in 7 Countries Hacked; Database Leaked Online

Shadow Brokers reveals list of Servers Hacked by the NSA

The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked a portion of the NSA’s hacking tools and exploits, is back with a Bang!

The Shadow Brokers published more files today, and this time the group dumped a list of foreign servers allegedly compromised by the NSA-linked hacking unit, Equation Group, in various countries to expand its espionage operations.

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Over 43 Million Weebly Accounts Hacked; Foursquare Also Hit By Data Breach

2016 is the year of data breaches that has made almost every major companies victims to the cyber attacks, resulting in compromise of over billion of online users accounts.

Weebly and Foursquare are the latest victims of the massive data breach, joini… Continue reading Over 43 Million Weebly Accounts Hacked; Foursquare Also Hit By Data Breach

FBI is Investigating Theft of $1.3 Million in Bitcoin from a Massachusetts Man

Over two months ago, the world’s third largest Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex lost around $72 Million worth of Bitcoins in a major hack.

Shortly after the company encountered a $72,000,000 Bitcoin theft, an unnamed Bitfinex user from Cambridge, Massachuset… Continue reading FBI is Investigating Theft of $1.3 Million in Bitcoin from a Massachusetts Man