Security News

Researchers Earn $100,000 for Hacking Pixel Phone
2018-01-18 06:23

A team of researchers has earned more than $100,000 from Google for an Android exploit chain that can be used to hack the company’s Pixel phone remotely simply by getting the targeted user to...

Flaws Allowed Facebook Account Hacking via Oculus App
2018-01-16 13:54

Facebook recently patched a couple of vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by malicious hackers to hijack accounts by abusing integration with the Oculus virtual reality headset. read more

'Hacking Incident' Impacts Nearly 280,000 Medicaid Patients
2018-01-15 20:33

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Sends Notification LettersA health data breach reported to federal regulators as a "hacking/IT incident" impacting nearly 280,000 Medicaid...

Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Police CCTV Cameras Before Trump Inauguration
2017-12-29 08:33

Remember how some cybercriminals shut down most of Washington D.C. police's security cameras for four days ahead of President Donald Trump's inauguration earlier this year? Just a few days after...

Two Romanians Charged With Hacking US Capital Police Cameras
2017-12-28 21:16

Two Romanian nationals have been arrested and charged with hacking into computer systems which controlled surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US capital earlier this...

Feds Charge Romanians With Hacking Washington CCTV Cameras
2017-12-22 14:03

London-Based Romanians Busted in Bucharest Accused of Cerber Ransomware AttacksTwo London-based Romanians recently arrested in Bucharest as part of a roundup of alleged ransomware attackers have...

South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Shuts Down After Hacking
2017-12-19 12:14

A South Korean exchange trading bitcoin and other virtual currencies declared itself bankrupt on Tuesday after being hacked for the second time this year, highlighting the risk over...

Critical 0-Day Allows Remote Hacking of DirecTV Video Bridge
2017-12-14 17:12

An unpatched critical vulnerability impacting a wireless video bridge used by DirecTV allows for an attacker to remotely execute code on the vulnerable devices, Zero-Day Initiative researchers...

US man is behind the 2015 Hacking Team hack?
2017-12-12 21:26

Who’s behind the 2015 Hacking Team hack? According to a notice received by Guido Landi, one of the former Hacking Team employees that was under investigation for the hack, a 30-year old Nashville,...

MoneyTaker’s stealthy hacking spree spread from US to Russia
2017-12-11 21:12

A stealthy group of Russian-speaking hackers has been targeting financial organizations (banks, credit unions, lenders) in the US and Russia, stealing money and documentation that could be used...