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The record folders of a University Center that contained Medicaid billing data was breached by cyber criminals. The breaching incident was reported by the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences on Jan. 5 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as an impact on the network server causing to affect a massive […]

Word of the NSA’s foul-up is beginning just as Congress has increased for six years the legal administration the agency uses for critical of its surveillance work handled through U.S. internet providers and tech firms. President Donald Trump employed that measure by law Friday. Read more

The DNS server for blackballet.co was hijacked by anonymous hackers, stealing over $400,000 in cryptocurrency from user’s accounts. BlackWallet is a web based wallet application forStellar Lumen cryptocurrency (XLM). The hack happened late Saturday afternoon, when cyber criminals attacked and hijacked the DNS entry of the blackwallet.co domain and redirected it towards their own server.

OnePlus has confirmed that its systems have been breached, following reports of credit card fraud from customers who bought a phone from the company. The phone maker sent an email to customers Friday, saying customers’ credit card numbers, expiry dates, and security codes “may have been compromised.” Read more

Researchers have identified a powerful new Android malware strain called Skygofree capable of eavesdropping on WhatsApp messages, siphoning private data off phones and allowing adversaries to open reverse shell modules on targeted devices, giving attackers ultimate remote control. Read more

Oracle has shipped 237 patches for vulnerabilities impacting hundreds of product versions as part of its latest quarterly critical patch update. Product lines coming in for some of the most fixes include Oracle Financial Services Applications, with 34, Fusion Middleware with 27, MySQL with 25 and Java SE with 21. In many cases, the vulnerabilities

Google has awarded a total of $112,500 to a security researcher for reporting an exploit chain which could be used to compromise Pixel mobile devices. The tech giant revealed the technical details of the exploit chain on Wednesday. In August 2017, Guang Gong from Alpha Team, Qihoo 360 Technology submitted an exploit chain through the

A man from New Mexico has admitted to launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against former employees, as well as possessing a firearm illegally. On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said John Kelsey Gammell has pleaded guilty in a St. Paul, Minnesota court to directing DDoS attacks against former employers, business competitors, companies that

A new variant of the Satori botnet has raised again with a new target, and this one is hacking into Claymore mining rigs (which mine the cryptocurrency Ethereum (ETH)) and replacing the machine owner’s mining wallet address with the attacker’s wallet. Read more

Wray opened his anti-encryption discourse last week at a cybersecurity conference in New York. In short, encryption is essentially dangerous. And the FBI boss will obviously continue to complain about encryption without suggesting any solutions. Read more