Hacking News

It is very common for ridesharing apps to get hacked, and Denmark’s Copenhagen bicycle sharing company that goes by the name of Bycyclen was a recent victim adding to the list of companies hacked. Read more

Tuesday brought shocking news for Kylie Jenner and her fans around the globe. Kylie’s instagram handle that goes by the name of Kylie’s Cosmetics was hacked and the handle was changed to Kris Cosmetics. Read more

Iran has the ability to strike the heart of the United States by releasing a series of crippling cyber-attacks on America’s networks which would lead to devastating outcomes. Donald Trump has left the US vulnerable to a number of potentially disastrous cyber-attacks after he quit the Iran Nuclear deal on Tuesday. Read more

Malaysia went into a turmoil on May 9th when several Malaysian politicians began to complain about receiving non stop phone calls from foreign countries. Upon investigation it was revealed that the calls originated from the US and kept coming every second. Read more

Together for Yes is an abortion rights campaign group in Ireland, who are campaigning for a Yes vote in an upcoming referendum, which would remove the Eighth Amendment’s constitutional ban on abortion. Read more

Nigerian business email compromise scams are growing more dangerous and sophisticated as cybercriminals add new tools and techniques to their arsenal such as remote access trojans (RATs) and advanced information stealers, researchers found. Read more

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