The United States Department of Justice yesterday sentenced a 22-year-old Washington-based hacker to 13 months in federal prison for his role in creating botnet malware, infecting a large number of systems with it, and then abusing those system...
Friday, June 26, 2020
'Satori' IoT DDoS Botnet Operator Sentenced to 13 Months in Prison #Security
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Dell Releases A New Cybersecurity Utility To Detect BIOS Attacks #Security
Computer manufacturing giant Dell has released a new security tool for its commercial customers that aims to protect their computers from stealthy and sophisticated cyberattacks involving the compromise of the BIOS. Dubbed ' SafeBIOS Events & I...
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Adobe Patches Critical Bugs Affecting Media Encoder and After Effects #Security
Adobe today released out-of-band software updates for After Effects and Media Encoder applications that patch a total of two new critical vulnerabilities. Both critical vulnerabilities exist due to out-of-bounds write memory corruption issues and c...
Monday, February 17, 2020
A Dozen Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Bluetooth LE Powered Devices #Security
A team of cybersecurity researchers late last week disclosed the existence of 12 potentially severe security vulnerabilities, collectively named ' SweynTooth ,' affecting millions of Bluetooth-enabled wireless smart devices worldwide—and worryin...
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users #Security
Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users' accounts. According to Twitter, the vulnerability resided...
Thursday, January 30, 2020
Critical OpenSMTPD Bug Opens Linux and OpenBSD Mail Servers to Hackers #Security
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new critical vulnerability ( CVE-2020-7247 ) in the OpenSMTPD email server that could allow remote attackers to take complete control over BSD and many Linux based servers. OpenSMTPD is an open-source ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020
PoC Exploits Released for Citrix ADC and Gateway RCE Vulnerability #Security
It's now or never to prevent your enterprise servers running vulnerable versions of Citrix application delivery, load balancing, and Gateway solutions from getting hacked by remote attackers. Why the urgency? Earlier today, multiple groups publ...
Friday, January 3, 2020
Xiaomi Cameras Connected to Google Nest Expose Video Feeds From Others #Security
Internet-connected devices have been one of the most remarkable developments that have happened to humankind in the last decade. Although this development is a good thing, it also stipulates a high security and privacy risk to personal informat...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Hacker Who Tried to Blackmail Apple for $100,000 Sentenced in London #Security
A 22-year-old man who claimed to have access to over 300 million iCloud accounts and threatened to factory reset all accounts unless Apple pays ransom has pleaded guilty in London for trying to blackmail Apple. In March 2017, Kerem Albayrak fro...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Latest Kali Linux OS Added Windows-Style Undercover Theme for Hackers #Cybersecuirty
#HackerNews You can relate this: While working on my laptop, I usually prefer sitting at a corner in the room from where no one should be able to easily stare at my screen, and if you're a hacker, you must have more reasons to be paranoid. Let'...
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Warning: Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions #Cybersecuirty
#HackerNews A cybersecurity researcher recently published details and proof-of-concept for an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL and MariaDB databases. phpMyAdmin is a free...
Friday, September 6, 2019
Google Fined $170 Million For Violating Kids' Privacy On YouTube #Cybersecuirty
#HackerNews Google has finally agreed to pay $170 million fine to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and the New York attorney general that its YouTube service earned millions by illegally harvesting personal information from chi...
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Exploit Reseller Offering Up To $2.5 Million For Android Zero-Days #Cybersecuirty
#HackerNews Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for Google, Android device manufacturers, and their billions of users worldwide. The zero-day buying and selling industry has recently taken a shif...
Friday, August 30, 2019
Ransomware Hits Dental Data Backup Service Offering Ransomware Protection #Cybersecuirty
#HackerNews THIS WEEK IN THE IRONIC NEWS: DDS Safe, an online cloud-based data backup system that hundreds of dental practice offices across the United States are using to safeguard medical records and other information of their patients from r...
Monday, August 26, 2019
Binance Confirms Hacker Obtained Its Users' KYC Data from 3rd-Party Vendor #Cybersecuirty
#HackerNews As suspected, the KYC details of thousands of Binance's customers that hackers obtained and leaked online earlier this month came from the company's third-party vendor, Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance confirmed. For thos...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
iOS 12.4 jailbreak released after Apple 'accidentally un-patches' an old flaw
#apple #applenews A fully functional jailbreak has been released for the latest iOS 12.4 on the Internet, making it the first public jailbreak in a long time—thanks to Apple. Dubbed " unc0ver 3.5.0 ," the jailbreak works with the updated iPhone...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
iOS 12.4 jailbreak released after Apple ‘accidentally un-patches’ an old flaw #Hacks
#CyberSecurity #Hacked A fully functional jailbreak has been released for the latest iOS 12.4 on the Internet, making it the first public jailbreak in a long time—thanks to Apple. Dubbed " unc0ver 3.5.0 ," the jailbreak works with the updated i...
Friday, August 9, 2019
KDE Linux Desktops Could Get Hacked Without Even Opening Malicious Files #cybersecurity
https://www.aiupnow.com If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any ".desktop" or ".directory" file for a while. A cybersecurity researcher has disclosed a...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
KDE Linux Desktops Could Get Hacked Without Even Opening Malicious Files #Hacks
#CyberSecurity #Hacked If you are running a KDE desktop environment on your Linux operating system, you need to be extra careful and avoid downloading any ".desktop" or ".directory" file for a while. A cybersecurity researcher has disclosed an...
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Google Researchers Disclose PoCs for 4 Remotely Exploitable iOS Flaws #Hacks
#CyberSecurity #Hacked Google's cybersecurity researchers have finally disclosed details and proof-of-concept exploits for 4 out of 5 security vulnerabilities that could allow remote attackers to target Apple iOS devices just by sending a mali...