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What are Meltdown and Spectre? Critical CPU flaws in Intel, AMD, ARM chips put millions at risk

The flaws potentially affect nearly all processors built in the last two decades and impact almost any device that uses the hardware.

Jan 4, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Homeland Security data breach: Sensitive information of over 240,000 employees and case witnesses exposed

"Please be assured that we will make every effort to ensure this does not happen again," the DHS said in a statement.

Jan 4, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

U.S. intelligence to reveal an estimate of how many Americans were under government surveillance

Trackmageddon: Flaws in hundreds of GPS services risk exposing millions of devices' data to hackers

The vulnerable GPS services are exposing location data, phone numbers, device model, IMEI numbers, photos and more.

Jan 3, 2018

By India Ashok

Hundreds of Android apps found covertly using your phone's microphone to track your TV habits

While most apps seemed to be available on Google Play Store some were also spotted on Apple's App Store as well.

Jan 3, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Google Apple

Mirai botnet creator Anna Senpai unmasked DDoS protection service provider gone rogue

Hackers have posted the malware code behind Satori botnet for free on Pastebin

"When an IoT exploit becomes freely available, it hardly takes much time for threat actors to up their arsenal," NewSky Security warned.

Jan 3, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

MacOS zero-day: 15-year-old Apple root access bug was publicly released on the last day of 2017

The zero-day vulnerability is a local privilege escalation (LPE) flaw and can only be exploited when the attacker has local access to the targeted device.

Jan 3, 2018

By India Ashok

Apple

What is the Nigerian prince scam? Elderly man faces around 270 charges for fake inheritance scheme

The scam involved people being told that they had been named benefactors by an African royal and had to share their personal information to get the money.

Jan 3, 2018

By Lara Rebello

Hackers can figure out your phone's PIN code using just its sensor data

The vulnerability shows how seemingly insignificant side-channels can exploited to infiltrate even strong smartphone security measures.

Jan 2, 2018

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Popular Chrome extension with over 105,000 users found secretly mining cryptocurrency

Users of the popular Chrome extension Archive Poster reported observing the change around the beginning of December.

Dec 30, 2017

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Forever 21 hack: Customers' payment card details left exposed to hackers throughout most of 2017

Forever 21 has over 815 stores in 57 countries including the US, UK, Australia, China, India, Germany, Japan and Latin America.

Dec 30, 2017

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Exmo hack: UK Bitcoin exchange hit with DDoS attack days after lead analyst was kidnapped

UK-based Bitcoin exchange Exmo, took to Twitter to inform its users about having suffered a DDoS attack just days after one of its employees was kidnapped.

Dec 30, 2017

By India Ashok

Bitcoin

Why was John McAfee's Twitter account hacked? Cyber guru says hackers with a grudge targeted him

McAfee claims his Twitter account was used by unknown hackers to promote little-known cryptocurrencies.

Dec 29, 2017

By India Ashok

Force 47: Vietnam setting up 10,000-strong cyber army to crack down on dissent in internet

The military cyber warfare unit is codenamed Force 47 and will sanitise "wrong viewpoints" emerging in the cyberspace.

Dec 28, 2017

By Vasudevan Sridharan

Hackers can remotely hijack thousands of Sonos and Bose speakers to play mysterious ghostly sounds

"While these devices are never supposed to be exposed on the internet, we have shown that they can and will find their way directly on the internet," Trend Micro said.

Dec 28, 2017

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Ancestry.com data leak: RootsWeb server accidentally exposes 300,000 email addresses and passwords

Troy Hunt, security expert and creator of the data breach repository "HaveIBeenPwned.com" discovered the unsecured file and said the data was compromised in 2015.

Dec 28, 2017

By Hyacinth Mascarenhas

Does Russia have backdoor access to the FBI? Americans' biometric data feared at risk of being hacked

The FBI reportedly purchased biometric data from a French firm, which contains code created by a Russian company with close ties to the Kremlin.

Dec 27, 2017

By India Ashok

FBI

Israel considering issuing digital shekel to tackle tax evasion

The Bank of Israel proposes to issue the cryptocurrency once the government approves it.

Dec 26, 2017

By Shubham Sharma

Bitcoin

How not to get hired: Man threatens to hack company unless firm fires female employee and hires him

28-year-old Todd Michael Gori was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for threatening cyberattacks against a company.

Dec 25, 2017

By India Ashok

What is Digmine? New malware is infecting Facebook Messenger users to secretly mine Monero

The malware installs a Monero miner and a malicious Chrome extension, which helps it spread to other victims.

Dec 25, 2017

By India Ashok

Facebook

Satori botnet: Hacker 'Nexus Zeta' found exploiting a Huawei zero-day flaw to spread Mirai variant

Security experts said that they detected a barrage of attacks exploiting the zero-day flaw, with the U.S., Italy, Germany and Egypt being hit the hardest.

Dec 23, 2017

By India Ashok

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