Security News

75% of the 'Left to Get Hacked' Redis Servers Found Infected
2018-06-04 19:03

Despite the continual emergence of new cyber attacks because of misconfigured servers and applications, people continue to ignore security warnings. A massive malware campaign designed to target...

Ticketfly got hacked, user data was leaked
2018-06-01 20:41

Ticketfly, a ticket distribution service owned by event management and ticketing pioneer Eventbrite, appears to have been hacked. The service’s site is showing a simple message saying that...

U.S. Disrupts Russian Botnet of 500,000 Hacked Routers
2018-05-24 02:30

The US Justice Department said Wednesday that it had seized an internet domain that directed a dangerous botnet of a half-million infected home and office network routers, controlled by hackers...

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers
2018-05-23 16:03

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked...

Hacked Drupal Sites Deliver Miners, RATs, Scams
2018-05-21 05:55

The Drupal websites hacked by cybercriminals using the vulnerabilities known as Drupalgeddon2 and Drupalgeddon3 deliver cryptocurrency miners, remote administration tools (RATs) and tech support...

Police phone tracking firm hacked, passwords leaked thanks to weak hashing
2018-05-17 14:52

Securus, which tracks phones for police, was using the MD5 algorithm to hash stored passwords.

North Korea Denies it Hacked UN Sanctions Committee Database
2018-05-03 01:07

North Korea on Wednesday denied hacking the database of a UN committee tasked with monitoring sanctions against Pyongyang, and called on Washington to focus on peace efforts ahead of a planned...

Report: Only 55% of users would change password if they were hacked
2018-05-02 19:48

A recent study found that 91% of people know using the same password for multiple accounts is wrong but 59% do it anyway.

Volkswagen and Audi car infotainment systems hacked remotely
2018-05-02 13:15

Researchers found a way into both cars through the Wi-Fi interface.

Man Who Hacked Jail Systems to Release His Friend Early Gets 7-Years in Prison
2018-05-01 06:48

Remember a young hacker who hacked jail systems in an attempt to release his prison inmate early? Well, that hacker will now be joining his inmate behind bars. Konrads Voits of Ypsilanti,...