Hacking News

He admits to hacking servers belonging to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in the US and in court papers to targeting an IP address believed to be located in the Westminster area of London. Last year American security officials accused Russia of helping Donald Trump win the US presidential ­election by hacking and publishing […]

Apple’s iPhone, which is known for its top top security features, just got hacked recently by a professional bug finder called Ian Beer. Interestingly, Ian Beer is a Google’s representative who has no links to Apple. This was possible for Ian when he, along with his team mates, manufactured a tool to hack into iPhones.

Gone are the days when airports were considered to be safe. A recent activity left Australians shocked when a professional hacker got hacked into Peth’s airport security systems. This incident took place at Perth airport and the man behind this was a Vietnamense hacker called Le Duc Huang Hai. Further investigations reported that this man

Researchers at Dell Secureworks are warning a vulnerability in two keyless entry products could allow local attackers to lock and unlock doors and create illegitimate RFID badges by sending unauthenticated requests to affected devices.Impacted are two AMAG Technology Symmetry IP-based access door controllers used in keyless door models EN-1DBC and EN-2DBC. Researchers say if the

A data dump containing over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials, all in clear text, has been found online by security shop @4iQ. The 41-gigabyte file was discovered on December 5 and had been updated at the end of last month, indicating the data is both current and being used by third parties.

After Bitcoin’s price goes higher and higher and has climbed from $11,000 on Monday to almost $17,500 on Sunday, phishing attacks on Bitcoin wallets increased, according to CheckPhish, which is a service that keeps track of new phishing pages against popular companies. According to CheckPhish reports, five domains have been recognized which were attempting to

Like many countries in the Asia-Pacific region, Australia has been consolidating its legislative and organisational responses to cybersecurity challenges, most notably with the implementation of a national cybersecurity strategy. The result is that its relative “cyber maturity” has risen two spots, putting it in equal second place with Japan. The United States remains the region’s

Researchers at security firm Fox-IT have developed a tool that allows investigators to detect the use of specific NSA-linked malware and recover event log data it may have deleted from a machine. The group calling itself Shadow Brokers has published several tools and exploits stolen from the Equation Group, cyberspies believed to be working for

There’s a chill going around cyberspace with an upsurge of people concerned that their Pinterest account has been hacked. Searches for the term “Pinterest hacked” spiked last week while “pinterest password” started to trend on Twitter. UK security researcher Scott Helme recently reported that his Pinterest account had been temporarily frozen after someone attempted to

Security researchers have lifted the lid on a gang of Russian-speaking cybercrooks, dubbed MoneyTaker. The group has conducted more than 20 successful attacks on financial institutions and legal firms in the USA, UK and Russia in the last two months alone, according to Russian incident response firm Group-IB. MoneyTaker has primarily targeted card processing systems,