The former Jersey Shore cast member used her Twitter account to alert her 4.6 million Instagram followers. My Instagram was hacked. She was fairly active on Instagram posting around 2 to 5 images a day on the photo sharing website. The images she posted were normally about her kids, her workout and her life with husband Jionni. The hackers also deleted most of Snookis 2,700 Instagram posts. Have a heart since clearly you got balls....

The scam covers almost everyone including cyber criminals, business mafia and state government authorities. The identity theft scam involves using the unique Tax Identification Number (TIN) provided by the state government. The image given below is from the businessmans CPT portal. Sources in state tax department said that many of the sales tax department officials were also involved in it. source: www.techworm.net

Google researcher discover privilege elevation bug in Windows 8.1, 32/64 bit versions. A Google researcher named Forshaw has discovered a privilege escalation bug in Windows 8.1. The vulnerability is identified in the function ahcache.sys/AhcVerifyAdminContext. This is checked in the function AhcVerifyAdminContext. It is just then a case of finding a way to exploit the vulnerability. No effort has been made to verify it on Windows 7. The PoC has been tested on Windows 8....

The attacks were supposedly carried out by the gang to make the mega corporations aware of vulnerabilities. Vinnie has confirmed the raid on his house and his subsequent arrest on Monday otDaily Dot. They took everything, Omari told the Daily Dot in an email. Courtesy DailyDot Xbox one, phones, laptops, computer USBs, etc. He was released on bail on Tuesday and said that no charges have been filed. He said arrested for, just alleged charges....

Reports suggest these sites were blocked on government orders due to an ISIS threat. As of December 26th, the site reported that it was still blocked in India. https://t.co/e3zRKnJJQOseems to have been blocked in India. If you are from India and unable to visit Pastebin, hey email us. These website have been blocked under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000. The list of websites blocked is given below...

The researches found the passwords for Telnet access on Google Search and used http access to monitor the communications. SIM Card vulnerability SIM cards are vulnerable as per the researchers the numbers is considerably less. The researchers managed to exploit only 20 of the 100 SIM cards they obtained for testing. By sending a binary SMS, the researchers managed to lock SIM cards and sniff and decrypt unit traffic. We dedicated the second part of our research to SIM cards....

According to reports published this week by theGerman news magazine Der Speigel. The NSA has created a specific repository called TOYGRIPPE for capturing VPN metadata. But XKEYSCORE, remains, the best for attacks on SSH traffic. There are also similar yet separate repositories for PPTP and SSL VPN traffic dubbed FOURSCORE and VULCANMINDMELD, respectively. and then stored into a key database called CORALREEF. Other attack methods are used to attempt to recover the PSK for each VPN session....

In short, they want a Hawk in the sky. Table Of Contents Fast Lightweight Autonomy D.A.R.P.A. These types of machines are already in use and have their own limitations which they wish to overcome. Birds of prey and flying insects exhibit the kinds of capabilities we want for small UAVs. All systems developed to meet these requirements will, however, undergo testing by DARPA itself. source: www.techworm.net

Kim made it very clear that while servers that hold data are on U.S. In November 2013, the chat service was originally expected to arrive in early 2014. All the dirty work is done for you, you just install it and go. The real issue is can it be trusted? Is there some secret agenda with Mega and Kim Dotcom? The likelihood of any secret agenda is very improbable in my opinion....

So who really is behind the massive hack of Sony Pictures? Norse Corporation researchers believe it to be a inside job or carried out with active insider participation. The Norse Corp researchers are focussing their investigations on six individuals according to ablog reportposted by them. They say these individual are connected to Sony and may have worked to compromise Sonys corporate online grid. Basile couldnt be reached for comment and the studio declined to confirm if she works or has worked there....

The said leaks also contained credit card details including CVVs. Old but still Gold SO since the leak is old, no one has to worry, Right? Wrong, shocking but its true old data leaks may lose its importance but not completely. Some do not do it even after the service provider requests them to reset the passwords. Who is behind these leaks? However, several Anonymous affiliated members said they do not promote activities like these....

Chinas administration has started blocking access to Gmail on an IP level for many of its 1.3 billion citizens. China has a number of ways they can block content. He said he checked six different locations, and found that each one was blocked. Image courtesy Mashable Image courtesy Mashable source: www.techworm.net

Thanks for being a part of it. Thanks for being a part of it. Thats exactly what happened to prominent web designer and writer Eric Meyer. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook. From his blog, Still, they were easy enough to pass over, and I did. Until today, when I got this in my feed, exhorting me to create one of my own. Eric, heres what your year looked like!...