Exploit found in Uber earns researcher $10k
Rideshare company and mobile app, Uber, fixed a vulnerability within its website that could have allowed a hacker to log into a few “.uber.com” subdomains with a non existant-password and may have led...
View ArticleOver 10 million systems found exploitable
Around 10 million systems globally have their databases at risk and countless nodes leave telnet, printer, and other ports open, based on new info from Rapid7’s Project Sonar. The huge port-scanning...
View Article32 Million Twitter accounts go up for sale on the Darknet
An alleged Russian hacker is looking to sell 32 Million Twitter Passwords for 10 Bitcoins ($5,800). Leakedsource has brought this hack to light after coming across the dataset being sold on the...
View ArticleFirefox 47 update fixes 13 vulnerabilities
In the most recent Firefox update pushed by Mozilla, two critical vulnerabilities were patched. The patch included a fix for a buffer overflow and a set of memory safety fixes – plus 11 other exploits...
View Article385,000 Credentials Stolen from uTorrent’s Forum
The popular BitTorrent Client uTorrent, founded by Ludvig Strigeus but later picked up by BitTorrent Inc., has released an alert to its users concerning a security breach of their community forum that...
View Article385,000 Credentials Stolen from uTorrent’s Forum
The widely used torrent client, uTorrent, founded by Ludvig Strigeus but later picked up by BitTorrent Inc., has given an alert to its users concerning a security breach of their forum which enabled...
View ArticleFlash Zero-day exploited in the wild – CVE-2016-4171
Another Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been found being exploited in “limited, targeted attacks”. Adobe has stated it will be patched later this week. The vulnerability, CVE-2016-4171 (CVE) impacts...
View ArticleLeakedsource uncovers 45 million user accounts from VerticalScope
The hacked data was discovered by Leakedsource in February 2016. The leak contains data like email address, username, IP address and passwords. Leakedsource.com is a newer search engine that scours a...
View ArticleOver 70,000 servers available on Russian forum xDedic
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have recently investigated a huge Russian underground marketplace, called xDedic, This marketplace has more than 70,000 hacked servers online and for sale....
View ArticleAcer U.S. breached, addresses and credit cards exposed
Computer maker Acer has sustained a data breach at its U.S. e-commerce site, Acer.com, which could potentially affect anybody that bought from the website throughout the last year or so. Based on a...
View ArticleGoToMyPc hit by possible bruteforce attack, all user passwords reset
GoToMyPC has been targeted with “very sophisticated password attack,” and is informing all users to reset their account passwords asap. In an announcement on its site, Citrix, which operates the remote...
View ArticleSWIFT hackers Steal 10 Million from Ukraine bank
Hackers swiped $10m from a Ukrainian bank by utilizing the inter-bank transfer system SWIFT to transfer their plunder. The breach from an unidentified Ukrainian bank comes after reports of cyber-heists...
View ArticleBotnet with over 25,000 CCTVs launches DDoS attacks
A botnet consisting exclusively of internet-designed closed circuit TV appliances launched queries of HTTP requests to hit a small jewelry store offline for several days. Experts who discovered the...
View ArticleAn estimated 10 Million Healthcare records up for sale on the Darknet
A hacker named Thedarkoverlord has been found offering a fresh plundering of 9.2 million patient documents on a Darknet marketplace, for 750 Bitcoin (around $477,000). The hacker is endorsing the...
View ArticleSuspected terrorist database leaked
A database of high-risk people and companies, many of which are believed to be to be involved in financial crime, corruption, and terrorism, has been leaked. The so called World Check Danger Screening...
View ArticleTop Massachusetts hospital suffers a data breach
One of the United State’s leading hospitals, Massachusetts General (MGH), has fallen victim to a data breach. All data relating to its dental patients has been stolen. The data includes patient names,...
View ArticleMuslim Match hacked – private messages leaked
Niche dating website “Muslim Match” has been hacked. Nearly 150,000 user credentials and information have been leaked online, along with more than half a million private messages between users. The...
View ArticleFBI Communications site hacked
Hackers also broke into the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan are thought to be the cause of yet another breach of a law enforcement info-sharing site run by the FBI, reported by CNN....
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