Bank of the west confirmed that the login credentials of candidates applied for jobs was compromised during the month of December 2013. Although it was unclear, what other information was compromised, but Bank of the West promptly sent an email to all its candidates informing the incident and that necessary measures were taken to secure […]
Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher discovered a vulnerability within Snapchat mobile app which can crash your iphone by Denial of Service attack. The vulnerability can enable a hacker to launch DoS attacks which can potentially crash a users phone or requires that the user perform a hard reset. He further says with a video that […]
Researchers from Kaspersky discovered a Brazilian Java Trojan that spreads via phishing email. Dmitry Bestuzhev explains that he never owned a Playstation but received an email with an attachment with a unusual ways of spreading Trojan bankers via .Jar files ( 14KB). It appeared to be a strange Trojan because even if a user just clicks on a .jar […]
The Syrian Electronic Army – a hacker group supportive of Syrian President Bashar Assad – managed to hack into Facebook, on the week of 10th Anniversary. The hackers first claimed to obtain Facebook.com as published on twitter at approximately 6:30 Eastern Standard Time. WHOIS search on domain registrar indicated that the email address was tied […]
Its very common lately for sites spreading malware from ads. The ad which are served from Google and Microsoft may relie on third party syndication may potentially be compromised which may lead to malware distribution. A similar incident happened as reported by Kaspersky that the largest website of sweden was spreading scare-ware to its users. […]
Agencies of China, Romania and the United States have jointly acted with the India Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against cyber criminals in these countries who were allegedly hacking into US based websites. According to sources from TOI, Amit Tiwari was arrested on the information shared by the FBI, which were interrogating a global hacker […]
Eric Rosol from Wisconsin participated in the 2011 DDOS attack ( distributed denial o f service) with Anonymous on Koch Industries. For his participation of one minute, the judge fined $183,000 on Eric and two years of probation. Was this justified ? Well no one knows and its probobly not. For a company like Koch […] ESET researchers have spotted a new malware spreading campaign targeting online banking users in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Portugal and the United Kingdom. It uses phishing campaigns related to trustworthy organizations to infect user machines. Based on Esset analysis, the new banking Trojan Hesperbot with functionality similar to the most notorious Zeus & Spyeye. However […] After the NSA espionage of US on foreign governments, Indian government is enforcing all its employees to use in house services to main the integrity and confidentiality of data. A senior official in ministry of communications & information technology sent an official notification to approx. 500,000 of its employees to restrict services like Gmail for […] Facebook security is challenged again to check how weak their security team is and how low they pay for bug hunters. An engineer student Arul Kumar 21 from India discovered a security vulnerability on Facebook which can delete anyone’s pictures. Arul is a security enthusiast who submitted the code with proof of concept yesterday. The […]