Hacking News

The addresses if around 30.000 fireman and shotgun owners are handed to a direct mail marketing agency for a commercial firm’s advertising campaign. The gun owners in London are questioning the Metropolitan Police about this incident. The people first came to know this when a leaflet landed on their doormats in Tuesday’s post. Titled as […]

A simple email marketing trick used by marketers and advertisers to track web users and email recipients have also been abused by cybercriminals and online spies to gather information on possible targets or to improve the efficiency of phishing attacks, both mass and targeted in scope. “We’ve seen a lot more use of this tactic

Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat have a found a unique way to find glitches.  It may surprise you, but it is true that they are paying hefty amounts to white hat hackers around the world to keep them updated about the glitches in their system. These technical giants are spending about around £156,000 every day, to

Script kiddies and online criminals around the world have reportedly startedexploiting NSA hacking tools leaked last weekend to compromise hundreds of thousands of vulnerable Windows computers exposed on the Internet. Last week, the mysterious hacking group known as Shadow Brokers leaked a set of Windows hacking tools targeting Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7 and

Yesterday Oracle has emitted a huge set of 299 security fixes for their software – also including a patch for a vulnerability exploited by an NSA leaked tool that can hijack the Solaris systems. You can find the details of this massive April dump here: Oracle describes their updates as “critical,” and urges all the

Quantum computing may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but within the next 10 years, it could be a reality. “Systems are still pretty rudimentary,” said Charles King, an analyst with Pund-IT.  “Though they perform some specific kinds of calculations faster than traditional computers, they are defined by their limitations. When true, fully

Researchers have discovered a simple way to hack an Internet-connected vibrator that, of course, comes equipped with a camera. After hacking the device, a video can be streamed live, and the user might not even know what happened. The Internet of Things (IoT) devices have become so vulnerable that from smart TVs to cars, from smartphones to plugs

WikiLeaks published hundreds of more files from the Vault 7 series today which, it claims, show how CIA can mask its hacking attacks to make it look like it came from other countries, including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Dubbed “Marble,” the part 3 of CIA files contains 676 source code files of a