Hacking News

ISLAMABAD: The ongoing investigation of the Automated Teller Machines (ATM) skimming scam took a new turn on Friday as a link was found between the prime suspect and an Indian national, according to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). In a press conference in Islamabad, FIA Director Shakeel Durrani revealed the details of the ongoing investigation. […]

THROUGHOUT 2016 AND 2017, individuals in Canada, United States, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom, and numerous other countries began to receive suspicious emails. It wasn’t just common spam. These people were chosen. Read more

The 20th century gave birth to the Nuclear Age as the power of the atom was harnessed and unleashed. Today, we are on the cusp of an equally momentous and irrevocable breakthrough: the advent of computers that draw their computational capability from quantum mechanics. Read more

North Korea is seeking to profit from Bitcoin’s surging value by hacking Bitcoin exchanges, security researchers have told Sky News. Ashley Shen, an independent security researcher, said: “We assume one of the reasons why Bitcoin is being attacked is because the price keeps increasing and we think it’s reasonable for hackers (to target). “Digital currency

THE INTERNATIONAL INTELLIGENCE agency always has a keen interest in Iran’s hacking activity. And new research published by the security firm FireEye on Thursday indicates the country’s efforts show no signs of slowing. In fact, a new network reconnaissance group— FireEye calls them Advanced Persistent Threat 34—has spent the last few years burrowing deep into

Fictional Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital is locked out of its electronic medical records, but in the real world, healthcare organizations face even greater risks. Like many couples, my wife and I enjoy watching TV dramas together. However, the recent winter finale of the long-running Grey’s Anatomy really hit home. It was about how the debilitating

To demonstrate such attacks, researchers at ERNW developed a testing framework covering information gathering, mobile phone tracking, denial-of-service, pay fraud, and interception of data. The framework was released after a talk on the research at the Black Hat EU conference this week. Read more

The SSL certificate on the criminal justice and court listing site justice.gov.uk expired yesterday, causing browsers to now warn users that their information is at risk. The site can still be accessed if users click through their browser’s warnings, and contains resources on courts, procedure rules and offenders. It is separate from the Gov.uk Ministry

Google is pausing its decision that cracks down on apps on the Google Play Store using the Android Accessibility API for anything other than its intended purpose, the company told developers in an email. Google will use a 30-day pause to consider “responsible and innovative uses of accessibility services.” It had originally set a 30-day

Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference is wrapped up and in the bag, but the cloud juggernaut appears to have had at least one more product to release before the year’s end. On Thursday, the company quietly announced AWS SSO, a single sign-on service for the AWS cloud. Amazon describes the product as a centralized portal