Hacking News

A vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook allowed hackers to steal a user’s Windows password just by having the target preview an email with a Rich Text Format (RTF) attachment that contained a remotely hosted OLE object. Read more

Britain has launched a Cyber Attack on an Islamic State’s Communications to stop a Terrorist Group from spreading false propaganda on the internet. The Director of GCHQ said that “The outcomes of these operations are wide-ranging,”. at Cyber UK conference in Manchester. Read more

Vevo suffered a shocking and devastating blow as their official Youtube account got hacked last night. Vevo is one of the most well known and popular video hosting companies and hosts a number of popular music videos on its YouTube channel as will. Read more

Hackers have attacked networks in multiple countries including the data centers of Iran where the hackers left an image of United States flag on their screens along with a message warning them. Read more

As Amanda Noble, Atlanta City Auditor logged onto her work computer on March 22nd, she immediately knew something was wrong. The icons on her desktop were changed and some were even replaced with black rectangles. Read more

The hacker gained access in to their twitter account to proclaim that the members of the LAPD police force are “white supremacists”. The twitter account contains 93,601 followers and at 1:53PM local time a tweet was posted that said, “Lapd WHITESUPREMACISTS”. Read more

There was a recent attack on ABTA, United Kingdom’s largest travel association website which affected around 43,000 people including 1000 holiday makers private details. ABTA (Association Of British Travel Agents) claim that the hackers got in to their web servers hosting the organization’s website and stole data from their customers, members and tour operators. Read

The private details of almost 57 million Uber clienteles were stolen in a data breach of 2016. Uber somehow managed to cover up the loss of their information for over a year but here is what we know about this hacking up till now. Read more

A hacker group pulled of one off the biggest data hacks in history when they successfully stole 5 million credit card information from customers. The customers compromised are found to be the ones who shopped from Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord and Taylor stores. Read more

The U.S. Department of Defense is doubling down on routing out vulnerabilities in its massive government systems. On Monday, the DoD announced it was expanding its bug bounty program to include the agency’s massive Defense Travel System. Read more