Attacks… Using Appcache and ServiceWorker for Evil 7 Jun 20177 Jun 2017 You’re a bad guy and you just hacked a website. Normally you leak the database and leave. The owner fixes everything next day and removes your backdoor. With Middlekit techniques…
Attacks… Thousands of computers now compromised with leaked NSA tools 27 Apr 201727 Apr 2017 Thousands of Microsoft Windows machines worldwide are infected with an NSA-developed backdoor that hackers installed by reusing leaked executable code from an outdated hacking toolkit belonging to the spy agency, multiple…
Hacking Hackers Are Already Targeting Our Critical Infrastructure 21 Mar 201721 Mar 2017 Cyber defenders still don’t understand the real threats that the power grid, energy plants and other critical infrastructure face. In the last few years, several government officials have made a…
Hacking Inside the Russian hack of Yahoo 20 Mar 201720 Mar 2017 One mistaken click. That's all it took for hackers aligned with the Russian state security service to gain access to Yahoo's network and potentially the email messages and private information of…
Cyber Security… In-the-wild exploits ramp up against sites using Apache Struts 19 Mar 201719 Mar 2017 Eight days after developers patched a critical flaw in the Apache Struts Web application framework, there has been no let-up in the volley of attacks attempting to exploit the vulnerability,…
Hacking The Coolest Hacks Of 2017 So Far 19 Dec 201628 Mar 2017 In a year when ransomware became the new malware and cyber espionage became a powerful political propaganda tool for Russia, it's easy to forget that not all hacking in 2016…
Hacking Where To Buy Your Online Stolen Data 7 Dec 20167 Dec 2016 What malicious sites provide both free and paid access to stolen credit cards, company databases, malware and more? With nothing more than a standard Web browser, cybercriminals can find personal,…
Hacking… 10 Security/Hacking Tools & Utilities – LSBlog 2 Nov 20162 Nov 2016 1. Nmap I think everyone has heard of this one, recently evolved into the 4.x series. Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security…
Hacking VoIP Hacking 22 Aug 201622 Aug 2016 By Mirko Raimondi Initially, the PSTN was a simple one-to-one telephone line connecting phones from one room to another. When telephone business grew, Private Branch eXchanges (PBX) were designed, and…
Hacking What Wireshark can Hack for you 17 Aug 201617 Aug 2016 Wireshark is a complete package filled with network analysis tools. Wireshark is not only a packet sniffer but also a packet analyzer, password hacker, and a firewall. It can also…
Hacking Hacking Linux with Armitage 8 Aug 20168 Aug 2016 Metasploit is a popular exploitation framework that has seen plenty of coverage on ethicalhacker.net. This article introduces Armitage, a new GUI for Metasploit built around the hacking process. Today, I…
Hacking Chip and Pin Bypass at Black Hat 5 Aug 20165 Aug 2016 Credit card companies for the most part have moved away from “swipe and signature” credit cards to chip and pin cards by this point; the technology known as EMV (Europay,…
Hacking Safe Skies luggage master key released online by hackers 29 Jul 201629 Jul 2016 Hackers reverse engineer Safe Skies master key, publish designs On Saturday evening, during the Eleventh HOPE conference in New York City, three hackers released the final master key used by…
Hacking 655,000 personal medical records, public. 29 Jun 201629 Jun 2016 A HACKER IS selling a huge collection of medical records online, and claims to have profited in this way already. 'Thedarkoverload' told Motherboard that business is good, and that the…
Hacking Millions Potentially Impacted by VerticalScope Hack 16 Jun 201616 Jun 2016 VerticalScope, which hosts 1,100 websites and forums, was hacked earlier this year, with the details of around 45 million users later leaked online. Some of the most popular online communities…
Hacking 10-year-old gets bounty for finding Instagram vulnerability 9 May 20169 May 2016 A 10-year-old schoolboy from Finland has become the youngest recipient of a £7,000 ($10,000) award under Facebook's bug bounty program, after he found a vulnerability that allowed anyone to delete…
Hacking Tesla Model S hacked to play movies 23 Apr 201623 Apr 2016 This is awesome – a hacker recently installed Gentoo Linux on the computer inside of his or her Tesla Model S,. all in the hopes of making the 17-inch screen…
Hacking How He Broke Into Hacking Team Servers 17 Apr 201615 Apr 2017 Almost a year after carrying out his attacks, the hacker behind the Hacking Team data breach has published a step-by-step explainer on how he breached the company's servers and stole…
Hacking Sqlmap: Testing With Sql Injection 12 Mar 20162 Nov 2016 Sqlmap is included in pen testing linux distros like kali linux, backtrack, backbox etc. On other distros it can be simply downloaded from the following url: http://sqlmap.org/. Since its written…
Cybercrime… Threats To Your Security When Using Social Media 29 Feb 201629 Feb 2016 Social networking has changed the way we interact with friends and associates. While social networks, like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, FourSquare, and Google+, play a significant role in our lives, they…
Attacks… Cross Site Scripting Cheat Sheet 23 Feb 201629 Feb 2016 This cheat sheet is for people who already understand the basics of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion. XSS Locator…
Hacking Linux Mint hacked 21 Feb 20163 Mar 2016 "Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it," said Clem Lefebvre, creator of the Linux Mint…
Hacking… Popular Tools for Brute-force Attacks 18 Feb 201621 Feb 2016 The brute-force attack is still one of the most popular password cracking methods. Nevertheless, it is not just for password cracking. Brute-force attacks can also be used to discover hidden…
Attacks… Defending against CSRF Attacks 11 Feb 201611 Feb 2016 Cross-Site Request Forgery, or CSRF for short is a common and regular online attack. CSRF also goes by the acronym XSRF and the phrase “Sea-Surf”. CSRF attacks include a malicious…
Cyber Security… Beating the bad guys with their own tricks 31 Jan 201615 Apr 2017 I've only tried this on Chrome, I'm not sure how other browsers will handle it, but it should work across all browsers.. Have you ever experienced this while streaming content?…
Hacking US Intelligence director hacked 14 Jan 201615 Jan 2016 The same individual or group claiming to be behind a recent breach of the personal e-mail account of CIA Director John Brennan now claims to be behind the hijacking of…
Hacking Create a botnet 10 Jan 201612 Jan 2016 Q:What is a botnet?A: A botnet is where you send a trojan to someone and when they open it a bot joins your channel on IRC(secretly, they don't know this)Once…
Hacking Hello Kitty Hacked, 3.3 Million Accounts Exposed 21 Dec 2015 The IT security researcher “Chris Vickery” who exposed MacKeeper and Hzone data breach has now discovered a hack of database belonging to Hello kitty website having over details inside. But,…
Hacking Vulnerability in United Airlines Website 18 Dec 201518 Dec 2015 Earlier this year we reported about security measures taken by United Airlines that they’ll give you up to a million miles to find a Security Bug in their system. An…
Hacking CIA Email Hackers Return With Major Breach 6 Nov 2015 HACKERS WHO BROKE into the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan have struck again. This time the group, which goes by the name Crackas With Attitude, says it…
Hacking… Is it still possible to do phone phreaking? Yes. 23 Oct 201527 Oct 2015 In the 1960s and 70s, technically savvy enthusiasts sought to game telecommunications systems to make free calls, keeping telecom engineers on their toes. That practice, known as phreaking, involved such…
Hacking Teen Who Hacked CIA Director’s Email Tells How He Did It 19 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 A HACKER WHO claims to have broken into the AOL account of CIA Director John Brennan says he obtained access by posing as a Verizon worker to trick another employee…
Hacking Hacking Wireless Printers With Phones on Drones 6 Oct 20156 Oct 2015 YOU MIGHT THINK that working on a secured floor in a 30-story office tower puts you out of reach of Wi-Fi hackers out to steal your confidential documents. But researchers…
Attacks… Patreon was warned of serious website flaw 5 days before it was hacked 2 Oct 2015 Five days before Patreon.com officials said their donations website was plundered by hackers, researchers at a third-party security firm notified them that a serious programming error could lead to disastrous…
Hacking Storing secret crypto keys in the Amazon cloud? New attack can steal them 1 Oct 20151 Oct 2015 Piercing a key selling point of commercial cloud computing services, computer scientists have devised a hack that allows an attacker using Amazon's EC2 platform to steal the secret cryptographic keys…
Hacking Hackers Launch Balloon Probe Into the Stratosphere to Spy on Drones 22 Sep 201522 Sep 2015 FOR GOVERNMENTS SEEKING to hide controversial programs from their citizens, there are few better directions to transmit secret military and espionage communications than straight up. Unlike here on earth, no…
Attacks… Anonymous hacks Vietnam Government websites to protest against human rights abuse 21 Sep 201522 Sep 2015 Members of the online hacktivist group, Anonymous, AntiSec and HagashTeam have hacked and defaced a number of Vietnamese government websites. Anonymous said that the hackings were done to protest against online…
Cybercrime… 10 Most Notorious Hacking Groups of All Time 16 Sep 201522 Sep 2015 Want to get caught up real quick on the history of hacking? This article on the 10 most notorious hacking groups of all time will help you. Don't forget to…
Hacking… Hacking Team, Computer Vulnerabilities, and the NSA 15 Sep 201522 Sep 2015 When the National Security Administration (NSA) -- or any government agency -- discovers a vulnerability in a popular computer system, should it disclose it or not? The debate exists because…
Cyber Security… Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys From Leaked Photos 13 Sep 201522 Sep 2015 THE TSA IS learning a basic lesson of physical security in the age of 3-D printing: If you have sensitive keys—say, a set of master keys that can open locks…
Cybercrime… Akamai warns of increased activity from DDoS extortion group 11 Sep 201515 Sep 2015 Akamai's Prolexic Security Engineering & Research Team (PLXsert) is warning of increased activity by a group – known as DD4BC – that since 2014 has typically threatened to take down corporate…
Attacks… $60 device spoofs phantom objects and tricks self-driving cars into stopping 8 Sep 201515 Sep 2015 A security researcher used a homemade $60 system to outsmart self-driving car lidar sensors that cost thousands. He was able to trick an autonomous vehicle into slowing down and even…
