Hacking News

China shut as many as 128,000 websites that contained obscene and other “harmful” information in 2017, the official Xinhua news agency reports, citing government data. Xinhua said 30.9 million illegal publications were confiscated over the course of 2017, while 1,900 people were subject to criminal penalties, according to figures from the national office in charge […]

Apple has issued a statement regarding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, confirming all Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but saying there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. Read more

A fundamental design flaw in Intel’s processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug. Programmers are scrambling to overhaul the open-source Linux kernel’s virtual memory system. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to publicly introduce the necessary changes to its Windows operating system in an upcoming

Roundup British drone users will have to take a multiple-guess quiz before using their Christmas toys this year, while drone users appear to have, once again, got around pre-eminent drone maker DJI’s software-based flight restrictions. Read more

Iranian authorities have blocked Instagram and other social media platforms in response to a wave of street protests across the country this week. The clampdown has resulted in Tor users climbing from around 6k at the beginning of December to over 10,000 at the last count as citizens seek to circumvent the controls, according to

In August 2017, the Internet was flooded with leaks of the then ongoing Game of Thrones’ season 7. HBO was hit by a cyber attack in which about 1.5 TB of data from the server was leaked. It looks like the world’s favorite show is not going to have an easy job in the next

Malicious digital hijacking campaigns are being carried out by North Korean hackers according to reports. Two serious cases of hacking have been reported in a succession, by groups called Lazarus and Andariel. Let’s find out more about these incidents: Read more

A security researcher (@s1guza) has published the details of an unpatched vulnerability in macOS that can be exploited to gain full control of a system. The bug is a critical local privilege escalation (LPE) affects IOHIDFamily, which is a kernel extension designed for human interface devices (HID) (e.g. the touchscreen, buttons, accelerometer, etc.). Read more

In today’s world, no company is fully safe as even big names like Sony and HBO have been hacked, and quite recently Nintendo’s Switch had to go through the same fat. Nintendo’s most in-demand product for the Christmas season was the handheld console, the Nintendo Switch, which was hacked following the 34th Chaos Communication Congress

A breach of Forever 21 left consumer payment card data exposed to hackers, the retailer verified Thursday. The business didn’t specify how many customers had data stolen, but said the various point of sales computers were affected within April 3 and November 18, 2017. Hackers obtained credit card numbers, expiration dates, confirmation codes and sometimes