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Topics: Hacking

Facebook’s Twitter account hacked by OurMine

Dubai-based hacker group OurMine on Friday hacked the Twitter accounts of Facebook and Messenger and posted on social media by stating, “Even Facebook account...

Hacker arrested after hacking Twitter’s Boss account

The hacker, a minor who hacked Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's account by the 'SIM swapping' technique in August and sent out numerous anti-semitic and...

Reports: Indian education institutions attacked most by hackers

Education domain is one of the most "at-risk" industries in India, with the sector accounting for more than 30 percent of cyber threats targeting...

A ‘Taj Mahal’ warning for you

Researchers with cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a sophisticated spying platform, TajMahal, that has been active for more than five years now...

Google sharing data with US officials

At a time when concerns over data collection and breach by tech majors are on the rise, it has been reported that US law...
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Report: Over 79% of firms don’t have counter security measures for hacking

Nearly 79 percent of Indian firms do not have a computer security incident response plan (CSIRP) in place that is applied consistently across operations,...

Yahoo to pay $117.5 million in latest data breach settlement

Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential...

Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak customers booking details to third party sites.

Two out of three hotel websites inadvertently leak guests' booking details and personal data to third-party sites, including advertisers and analytics companies, according to...

IoT in healthcare is likely to come under cyber attacks

While the healthcare industry is rapidly adopting new-age technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve access and...

Apple bans another spyware app from App store

Immediately after spyware-maker Connexxa's infamous app "Assistenza SIM" was caught abusing the iOS enterprise certificate to bypass Apples App Store guidelines, the iPhone-maker revoked...
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Hackers targets thousands of Asus computers last year

Hackers targeted "hundreds of thousands" of Asustek computer owners by pushing a backdoor update software tool from the computer maker's servers, cyber security firm...

Reports: 50 million cyber threats targeted enterprises during the second half of 2018

Researchers detected close to 50 million cyber threats targeting enterprises during the second half of 2018, according to a new report from Seqrite, the...

Two Ukrainian hackers leak the data of 60K Facebook users through online quizzes

Two Ukrainian men used online quizzes to lure more than 60,000 Facebook users into installing malicious browser extensions that leaked their profile data and...

Software pirates hijacked Apple technology to put a hacked version of apps on iPhones

Software pirates have hijacked technology designed by Apple Inc to distribute hacked versions of Spotify, Angry Birds, Pokemon Go, Minecraft and other popular apps...

Fazle Kabir: Bangladesh sues Manila Bank over $81 million cyber-heist

Bangladesh will file a lawsuit in a US court on January 30 against Philippine bank Rizal Commercial Banking Corp (RCBC) over its role in...
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Avast: Over 55% of apps running on PC are obsolete software

More than half (55 per cent) of the personal computer (PC) applications installed worldwide are obsolete, thus making the users and their personal data...

M.K. Narayanan: India should strengthen its cyber warfare capabilities

Underscoring that India was on the threshold of a digital age, former National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan on Wednesday said the country needed to...

Trend Micro says, Sophisticated cyber attacks on cloud will dominate in 2019

A Japan-based cybersecurity firm, Trend Micro on Friday released its cybersecurity reports, in which it said that "In 2019, the hackers will use more...

Quora’s latest data breach hits 100 million users

Quora, a question and answer providing site on Tuesday reported that "It site was affected with a massive data breach which disclosed the account...

Marriott reports data breach at Starwood which affected 500 million guests

One of the world's largest hotel's and restaurants chain Starwood on Friday confirmed that "Its hotel guest database of about 500 million customers has...
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Study : Chinese-style ‘digital authoritarianism’ grows globally

WASHINGTON - Governments worldwide are stepping up the use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China's model, to suppress dissent and tighten...

Paras Jha, a Mirai Botnet hacker ordered to Pay $8.2 million in damage

The U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey has said: "The federal court has found Paras Jha, guilty in the charge of violating...
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