Car Hacking ? Scary, But Now it’s REALITY!

Next time you find yourself hooked up behind the wheel, make sure that your car is actually in your control.
Hackers are now able to break into hundreds of thousands of vehicles on the road.
Car hacking is a hot topic today and until now it was performed only while researchers were hard-wired into a car's electrical system.
However, the most recent hack performed by two computer hackers, who have

All Smartwatches are vulnerable to Hackers

Do you own a Smartwatch? If yes, then how safe it is? There are almost 100 percent chances that you own a vulnerable Smartwatch.



Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is warning users of smartwatches including Apple Watch and Samsung Gear that their wearable devices are vulnerable to cyber attacks.



In a study, HP's Fortify tested today's top 10 smartwatches for security features, such

Oh Gosh! Four Zero Day Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Internet Explorer

How many Zero-Days do you think could hit Microsoft today? Neither one nor two; this times its Four.



The Hewlett-Packard's Zero-Day Initiative (ZDI) has disclosed four new zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser that could be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on victim's machine.



All the four zero-days originally were reported to Microsoft, affecting

Bug in OpenSSH Opens Linux Machines to Password Cracking Attack

A simple but highly critical vulnerability recently disclosed in the most widely used OpenSSH software allows attackers to try thousands of password login attempts per connection in a short period.



OpenSSH is the most popular software widely used for secure remote access to Linux-based systems. Generally, the software allows 3 to 6 Password login attempts before closing a connection, but a

Hacking Team: We're Victim of a Criminal Cyber Attack

Hacking Team, the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide, says the company has always operated with the law and regulation in an ethical manner.



However, there was only one Violation of Law in this entire event, and that is – "the massive cyber attack on the Hacking Team." company stated.



The recent hack on Hacking Team exposed

​Google, Yahoo, Facebook Collaborate to Blacklist Bad Bots

The major tech companies including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo! have joined their hands to launch a new program meant to block fake web traffic by blacklisting flagged IP addresses.



Today, majority of data center traffic is non-human or illegitimate, so to fight against this issue the Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) has announced a program that will tap into Google's internal

600TB MongoDB Database 'accidentally' exposed on the Internet

System administrators have reportedly exposed almost 600 Terabytes (TB) of MongoDB database due to running outdated and unpatched versions of the NoSQL MongoDB database.



The open source MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database used by companies of all sizes, from eBay and Sourceforge to The New York Times and LinkedIn.



According to Shodan's representative John Matherly, nearly 30,000

Lessons We Learned From Ashley Madison Data Breach

Do you use your Real Identity online and think about being private? If yes, then you are insane.



Ashley Madison, the popular online dating website with tagline "Life is short. Have an affair", recently got hacked, reportedly exposing a sample of its users' account information and other personal data online.



The hacker group, called itself 'The Impact Team', is also threatening to

Oops! Adult Dating Website Ashley Madison Hacked; 37 Million Accounts Affected

"Life is short. Have an affair," but always remember "Cheaters never prosper."



AshleyMadison.com, an American most prominent dating website, that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, potentially putting very private details of Millions of its users at risk of being exposed.



The Stolen personal data may include information from users’ real names, addresses and

Phishing Your Employees: Clever way to Promote Cyber Awareness

Employees are the weakest link when it comes to enterprise security, and unfortunately hackers realized this years ago. All an attacker needs to use some social engineering tactics against employees of companies and organizations they want to target.



A massive 91% of successful data breaches at companies started with a social engineering and spear-phishing attack. A phishing attack usually

Hacking Team and Boeing Built Cyber Weaponized Drones to Spy on Targets

The leaked internal emails from the Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team have revealed that the spyware company developed a robotic aircraft designed to attack computers and smartphone devices through Wi-Fi networks.



Over a year ago, some security researchers developed a drone called 'Snoopy' that was capable to intercept data from users' Smartphones through spoofed wireless

Hacker Earns 1.25 Million Free Frequent Flyer Miles On United Airlines

What if you get 1 Million Frequent Flyer Miles for Free? Yes, 1 Million Air Miles…



…I think that would be enough for several first-class trips to Europe or up to 20 round-trips in the United States.



Two Computer Hackers have earned more than 1 Million frequent-flyer miles each from United Airlines for finding multiple security vulnerabilities in the Airline's website.



Back in May

NSA Releases Open Source Network Security Tool for Linux

The United States National Security Agency (NSA) has released a network security tool for Government and the private sectors to help secure their networks against cyber attacks.



Dubbed Systems Integrity Management Platform (SIMP), the tool is now publicly available on the popular source code sharing website GitHub.



According to an official release from NSA, SIMP makes it easier for

Malware And Hacking Forum Seized, Dozens Arrested

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 70 people suspected of carrying out cyber criminal activities associated with one of the most active underground web forums known as Darkode.



Darkode, also used by notorious Lizard Squad, was an online bazaar for cyber criminals looking to buy and sell hacking tools, botnet tools, zero-day exploits, ransomware programs,

How Hacking Team and FBI planned to Unmask A Tor User

The huge cache of internal files recently leaked from the controversial Italian surveillance software company Hacking Team has now revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) purchased surveillance software from the company.



The leaked documents contains more than 1 Million internal emails, including emails from FBI agent who wanted to unmask the identity of a user of Tor, the

Java Zero-day vulnerability exploited in the Wild

Really a bad weekend for Internet users. Three previously unknown critical zero-day vulnerabilities were revealed in Adobe’s Flash Player over the weekend, thanks to Hacking team data Breach in which 400GB of internal data were leaked over the Internet.



Now, a new zero-day vulnerability has been reported in Oracle’s Java that is reportedly being exploited in the wild by hackers to target

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service Hacked; Database On Sale for Just 1 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and its whole users database is on sale for 1 Bitcoin.



The unknown hackers have successfully taken full control of the website's server and defaced the homepage of the website.



Users visiting the website are greeted with a defaced homepage showing the partial database of around 1000 clients including their usernames and

Malicious Gaming App Infects More than 1 Million Android Users

It's not at all surprising that the Google Play Store is surrounded by a number of malicious applications that may gain users' attention to fall victim for one, but this time it might be even worse than you thought.



Threat researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a malicious Facebook-Credentials-Stealing Trojan masquerading as an Android game that has been downloaded by more

Israeli Singer Jailed for Hacking Madonna Emails

An Israeli Singer and former contestant on a reality talent show has been jailed for hacking Madonna's online accounts and stealing songs from her unreleased music tracks.



Adi Lederman, 39, who participated in Israel's version of American Idol called A Star Is Born, is set to spend his 14 months in prison and pay $4000 in fine after confessing to computer trespassing, infringement of

Second Flash Player Zero-day Exploit found in 'Hacking Team' Dump

Another Flash zero-day exploit has emerged from the hundreds of gigabytes of data recently leaked from Hacking Team, an Italian surveillance software company that is long been accused of selling spying software to governments and intelligence agencies.



The critical zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash is a Use-After-Free() programming flaw (CVE-2015-5122) which is similar to the