Hacking News

For instance, Wikipedia is still blocked in Turkey after the administration limited access to the site during a crackdown on dissident details after a failed coup. Read more

Users of CoinPouch wallet have lost over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency this week, CoinPouch said on its official Twitter that one in all its nodes containing Verge foreign coin has been hacked. Read more

The latest cyber-attack on an ASX listed company demonstrates the evolving threat posed to businesses by cyber-attacks and the need for organisations to take proactive steps to ensure that they can quickly and effectively respond to any attack. Read more

A group of Iraqi hackers placed porn on encrypted message sites used by Islamic State’s ‘news agency’ Amaq. The hacks are meant to disrupt the flow of communication between ISIS jihadis by creating havoc in the organization and mistrust of supporters for each other. Read more

Imgur, one of the world’s most visited websites, has confirmed a hack dating back to 2014.The company told ZDNet that hackers stole 1.7 million email addresses and passwords, scrambled with the SHA-256 algorithm, which has been passed over in recent years in favor of stronger password scramblers. Read more

Mozilla engineers are developing a new notifications system for Firefox which will show a security warning when users hit a website that has been hacked. Read more

Developers are often accused of not thinking about security, but Linux kernel founder Linus Torvalds has had enough of security people who don’t think about developers and end-users. Read more

There is no evidence that Uber customers who had their personal details stolen are at risk of direct financial crime, a minister has insisted, despite hundreds of users complaining that their accounts have been hacked from Russia. Read more

Big-brand PC and server manufacturers have listed models affected by flaws in hidden firmware on the microprocessor inside several Intel CPUs. Read more

This week GitHub launched a new services to help developers ferret out and fix vulnerable dependencies in projects hosted on the code repository. Read more