World Cyber News

The popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were accessed by hackers as result of a massive credential stuffing attack. On Friday, the popular video sharing website Dailymotion announced that some accounts were hit by hackers. The company discovered unauthorized access attempts resulting from credential stuffingactivity. The company blocked the […]

A team at a robot cybersecurity startup has released a free, open-source tool for information security professionals to help them easily ‘footprint’ and detect unprotected robots, not only connected to the Internet, but also to the industrial environments where they operate. Dubbed « Aztarna, » the framework has been developed by Alias Robotics, […]

Here we have great news for all iPhone Jailbreak lovers and concerning one for the rest of iPhone users. A Chinese cybersecurity researcher has today revealed technical details of critical vulnerabilities in Apple Safari web browser and iOS that could allow a remote attacker to jailbreak and compromise victims’ iPhoneX […]

The French data protection watchdog CNIL announced a fine of 50 million euros ($57 million) for US search giant Google under GDPR. On 21 January 2019, the CNIL’s restricted committee imposed a financial penalty of 50 Million euros against the company GOOGLE LLC, in accordance with the General Data Protection […]

The popular cyber security expert Troy Hunt has uncovered a massive data leak he called ‘Collection #1’ that included 773 million records. The name ‘Collection #1’ comes from the name of the root folder. Someone has collected a huge trove of data through credential stuffing, the ‘Collection #1’ archive is a […]

A new reminder for those who are still holding on to the Windows 7 operating system—you have one year left until Microsoft ends support for its 9-year-old operating system. So it’s time for you to upgrade your OS and say goodbye to Windows 7, as its five years of extended […]

Almost every activity on the Internet starts with a DNS query, a key function of the Internet that works as an Internet’s directory where your device looks up for the server IP addresses after you enter a human-readable web address (e.g., thehackernews.com). Since DNS queries are sent in clear text […]

A security expert found a flaw in Skype for Android that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to view photos and contacts, and even open links in the browser. Security expert Florian Kunushevci (19) discovered a vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated local attacker to view photos and contacts, and […]

Une dernière polémique pour boucler l’année noire de Facebook. Privacy International constate l’envoi de données à Facebook par des applications Android à l’insu de l’utilisateur, et ce même s’il n’a pas de compte sur le réseau social. Selon un rapport de Privacy International (PDF), des applications Android parmi les plus […]

Google met régulièrement en avant la sécurité de son système Chrome OS grâce à des mises à jour régulières et la vérification de l’intégrité du firmware dans l’espoir de séduire les entreprises. Pour compléter ses défenses, du côté hardware cette fois, Chrome OS va se doter d’une nouvelle fonction USBGuard qui bloquera les ports USB […]