Hacking

Update: October 23(4:33 AM IST/ 1:03 AM CEST): GitHub noted on its status blog that all the services are now up and running. Update: (3:26PM IST/ 11:56PM CEST) GitHub said that the majority of restore processes have completed. And they anticipate all data stores will be fully consistent within the next hour. Update (03:17PM IST / 11:47AM CEST): GitHub noted that it needs […]

A critical Vulnerabilities that affected FreeRTOS TCP/IP Stack puts millions of IoT devices at risk and let attackers allows to compromise the Smart home devices and Critical Infrastructure Systems. FreeRTOS is a  real-time operating system kernel for embedded devices that support various architectures such as  Altera Nios II, ARM architecture, Fujitsu, Microchip Technology, STMicroelectronics etc. Vulnerabilities affected multiple Versions of […]

Hackers steal a Tesla Model S car by intercepting the signal from car’s key fob with a tablet to unlock and start the car. The car was stolen by capturing its passive entry that used to automatically unlock the car when approached with the key. Antony Kennedy who lives in […]

Cybercriminals are distributing new phishing scam related to natural disasters that abusing Microsoft Azure Blog Hosting and also attempt to steal the login credentials. Victims abused by forcing them to involved with fake donations or steal funds directly via fraudulent donations in order to steal the credit card numbers. This Phishing campaign Lures Florida Hurricane […]

Security researchers from WizCase have discovered several vulnerabilities in WD My Book, NetGear Stora, SeaGate Home, Medion LifeCloud NAS. NAS devices have become the storage device of choice for many small and medium businesses (SMB). They are inexpensive, easy to operate, and you can add additional storage if you’re running low on […]

Attackers are targeting high-value servers using a three of hacking tools from NSA arsenal, including DarkPulsar, that were leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacker group. The hackers used the powerful cyber weapons to compromise systems used in aerospace, nuclear energy, R&D, and other industries. According to experts from Kaspersky Lab, threat actors leverage NSA tools DarkPulsar, DanderSpritz and Fuzzbunch to infect Windows […]

A security researcher discovered a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-9206, that affects older versions of the jQuery File Upload plugin since 2010. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability to carry out several malicious activities, including defacement, exfiltration, and malware infection. The flaw was reported by the Akamai researcher Larry Cashdollar, he explained that many […]

A new tech support scam pretending to be from McAfee was discovered last week that is harvesting credit card details and personal information of its victims. Last week I was tipped off about a new browser-based tech support scam that stated « Your Mcafee subscription has expired on 18 October 2018 ». […]

A month after its most recent iPhone and Mac launches, Apple has refreshed its privacy pages. There isn’t much that’s changed: those pages still espouse Apple’s long-held commitment to privacy being a “fundamental human right” and that your information is, for the most part, kept on your iPhones, iPads and Macs. […]

Mozilla says Firefox Nightly now supports encrypting the Transport Layer Security (TLS) Server Name Indication (SNI) extension, several weeks after Cloudflare announced it turned on Encrypted SNI (ESNI) across all of its network. Introduced in 2003 to address the issue of accessing encrypted websites hosted at the same IP, the SNI extension […]