There is no doubt about the fact that Nintendo Switch is currently the most sought-after device. However, the device is also prone to be hacked. According to hackers Yellow8, Plutoo, Derrek, and Naehrwert, it is possible to hack Nintendo Switch and install unofficial homebrew software and pirated games on the […]
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According to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist Shivam Bhasin, NTU Senior Research, data from your smartphone sensors can reveal PINs and passwords to hackers and allow them to unlock your mobile devices. Researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore used sensors in a smart phone to model […]
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The exploit code used to trigger the CVE-2017-17215 vulnerability in Huawei routers over the past several weeks is now publicly available. Before Christmas, the Mirai botnet made the headlines once again, a new variant dubbed Satori was responsible for hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in Huawei HG532 home routers. The […]
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Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into US Capital Police cameras ahead of the inauguration of President Trump. Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into control systems of the surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US. The two suspects, […]
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Ancestry.com Responds Well To RootsWeb Data Breach The popular expert Troy Hunt notified the Ancestry.com security team of an unsecured file on a RootsWeb server containing “email addresses/username and password combinations as well as usernames from a RootsWeb.com server”. When you think of personal security questions, you might think […]
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Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the CryptoMix ransomware that appends the .tastylock extension to encrypted files and changes the contact emails used by the ransomware. In this article I will provide a brief summary of any changes that have occurred in this new variant. As we are always looking for weaknesses, if […]
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Ancestry.com said it closed portions of its community-driven genealogy site RootsWeb as it investigated a leaky server that exposed 300,000 passwords, email addresses and usernames to the public internet. In a statement issued over the weekend, Chief Information Security Officer of Ancestry.com Tony Blackham said a file containing the user data […]
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Connaissez-vous le « Deep Web » ? Ce web caché qui fait référence aux données non-indexées et aux pages web non-détectées par les moteurs de recherche standards ; dans ses extrémités sombres réside une partie spécifique appelé « Dark Web »contenant des sites ayant des visées criminelles et comprenant du […]
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The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789) as well as a large number of tokens. The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta that announced a potential attack […]
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For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017 despite the numerous warning of using strong passwords. For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password among the millions of cleartext passwords exposed online due to the numerous […]
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