Hacking News

FedEx has exposed private information belonging to thousands of its customers after a legacy server was left open without a password. The discovery was made by security researchers at the Kromtech Security Center, which posted details of the exposure alongside ZDNet. Read more

The Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail announced late last week that it was hacked and lost about 17 million Nano cryptocurrency (XRB, formerly known as RaiBlocks), currently worth over $160 million. Read more

The Canadian authorities were the first to take vigilant initiative after the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck hack last month. In recent past, there has been an increasingly high number of low and high profile cases of cyber criminal activities regarding digital currency. Read more

As it was being expected and reported for the past couple of months, the South Korean Winter Olympics was vulnerable to a hacking attack. This fear came true when the internet networks at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were paralyzed by a cyberattack in what seemed to be an effort to embarrass

The Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail announced late last week that it was hacked and lost about 17 million Nano cryptocurrency (XRB, formerly known as RaiBlocks), currently worth over $160 million. Read more

Government websites were recently hacked in the UK in another case of cryptojacking. Cryptojacking is a process where hackers hack websites in order to mine cryptocurrencies. This has been one of the biggest problems in today’s world as such hacks have become very common, and some government websites recently became a victim of such attacks

The bug, if utilized, can increase a local unprivileged user to the full “system” level rights giving them passage to every edge of the operating system. But Microsoft, which owns the voice and video-calling service, said it won’t quickly fix the flaw because the bug would need too much work. Read more

According to News, the intern who took the code took it and shared it to a small group of five colleagues in the iOS jailbreaking community in order to help them with their continuing efforts to circumvent Apple’s secured down mobile operating system. Read more

Security holes found i smart TVs could lead to the exploitation of vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of Samsung and Roku products. This discovery was made after tests conducted by the Consumer Reports. According to them, even a unsophisticated hacker might be able to hack into a victim’s smart TV, even from miles away. Read

While Equifax had revealed that names, dates of birth, and Social Security estimates might have been endangered, as well as some drivers’ license numbers, the records reveal that the license state and date of issue of those licenses might have been endangered. Read more