Hacking News

Alphonso, a startup that retails media-viewing data, provides a plugin that listens for audio signals in shows and movies. Approximately 250 mobile entertainments and social applications in the Google Play Store use it to produce targeted ads, according to News, a few of which include bland-sounding titles like “Pool 3D”, “Beer Pong: Trickshot”, “Real Bowling […]

Instruments in smartphones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability as researchers have found that data from these sensors could be used by hackers to guess the security password. Read more

Bitcoin is booming and so are criminal schemes looking to make money off the trend. The hype around cryptocurrency is only growing, fueled by the massive rise of bitcoin, the digital currency created in 2009. Its value has skyrocketed by thousands of dollars in the last year, but the price fluctuates regularly. Read more

This exploit is so serious that it allows any arbitrary code to run on the console. Team FailOverflow successfully ran Linux on the console and showed that it’s vulnerable and needs to be patched soon. Read more

Quite recently, the founder of Mcafee company, John Mcafee, was in news when his Twitter was hacked by an unknown hacker. This hacker used John’s social media reach and used it to promote some lesser known cryptocurrencies. Read more

From frustrating to mysterious to downright creepy, here are ten things we learned during 2017. Thought you caught everything in security this year? There was a lot to unpack. Here are ten things we learned this year that you might have missed. Read more

Hackers meet in Leipzig this week to push tech’s boundaries in the name of creating a better society. Personal privacy, big data and sexual harassment are the hot topics. It’s been a year of reckoning for the tech industry. The Wannacry virus locked up 200,000 computers for bitcoin ransom at the start of the summer.

She has changed the description of her Instagram page to read, “STOP HACKING”, indicating that she has suffered numerous occasions of people attempting to hack her SNS account. Back on December 8, singer Byul’s SNS was hacked, while in October, WINNER’s Kim Jin Woo also suffered from a hacking incident. We hope netizens stop causing

Mozilla this week fixed a severe security problem in its open-source Thunderbird email client, which also serves as a client for news, RSS, and chat. The most critical flaw (CVE-2017-7845) is a buffer overflow bug affecting Thunderbird running on the Windows OS. Read more

You’d think by now with the pervasiveness of inherently insecure Internet of Things things that creative hacking would be a thing of the past for security researchers. It’s gotten too easy to find security holes and ways to abuse IoT devices; they’re such easy marks. Read more