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Malaysian Politician and Vice-President of the Peoples Justice Party (PKR) Rafizi Ramli claims that his website has been hacked and all the contents of the website have been removed. In a statement given out yesterday, he said that he was informed of the cyber-hack by the blogs hosted service provider. Read more

Around 15,000 members of a credit union in the UK have had their personal data stolen due to a cyber-attack. Sheffield Credit Union (SCU) claims that names, national insurance numbers, addresses and bank details were accessed due to this breach in cyber-security. Read more

When we say “hack” here we most often mean either modifying something to do something different or building something out of parts. But as we build more Internet-connected things, it is worthwhile to think about the other kind of hack where people gain unauthorized access to a system. Read more

Android’s vulnerability is not something unfathomable. Despite, security researchers have finally discovered an effective way to hijack an Android phone remotely through a nearly four-year-old hacking technique known as ‘Rowhammer’. Read more

PUBG, short for Player Unknowns Battle Ground, is a popular game published by PUBG Corporation with more than 45 million active players worldwide. Quite recently the game was in the news for hackers breaking into the system to steal personal information of players. Read more

In a troubling denial-of-service (DDoS) attack this week, the website of a county election commission in Tennessee went offline during a mayoral primary. Knox County reported that despite the disruption, “The cyber-attack did not impact the results of the election.” Read more

An open students competition called Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge was held by NASA to encourage students in showing their talents by making real life projects. Read more

Cryptocurrencies are on the rise and this makes hackers curious. Recently, the Substatum Twitter account was hacked by some unknown hacker. It’s a company that deals in forwarding content from hosts in exchange for cryptocurrency as payment. Read more

A parent logging on their child’s high school account to check on his/her grades and homework assignments made an astonishing discovery: security camera images showing his teen walking down a hall inside the Colonial Heights High School. Read more

After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause. Read more