People are familiar with news of someones account getting hacked and being used for mischievous purposes. But what happens, if this account belongs to someone who died a year ago ? The Hack The twitter account of the late star was supposed to be locked when the hacking occured. The Account, tweeted links to diet spam. She used to hide heroin 61% pure in her bedroom. That fateful day, she injected too much heroin into her bloodstream and died of the overdose....

The company has noted that target URLs using X-Frame-Options are not affected. Drawback of being Open Source Google did release a patch for this flaw. This is felt when Google releases new versions of Android and the pinch is also being felt now. Do remember use the Metasploit only if you are familiar with it. Other PoCs and the fix has been given by Rafay on his blog given below....

These files were downloaded a total of 65,213 times. of which about 97.7% of the downloads were for Windows samples. the malware gets installed too but only on jail broken iOS devices. source: www.techworm.net

Other takedown targets included money laundering sites like Cash Machine, Cash Flow, Golden Nugget and Fast Cash. We can now show that they are neither invisible nor untouchable. The criminals can run but they cant hide. And our work continues…., said Europols Troels Oerting. source: www.techworm.net

Is Wireluker a serious threat for iOS and MAC users!!! Propagation methods Everyone who is familiar with Apple devices knows about its famous walled garden approach. This approach ensures that users are only allowed access to content regulated by Apple itself. From a security standpoint, this makes it very difficult for malware to get onto an Apple gadget. This has primarily been the reason for Apple products being malware resistent....

Hello Your site is extremely vulnerable to ddos attacks. I want to offer you info how to properly setup your protection, so that you cant be ddosed! My price is 1 Bitcoin only. If interested pay me 1 BTC to [Bitcoin address] Thank you. What do you do when you receive such a threat ? This threat was made by a user who goes by the pseudonym DD4BC. Fear and uncertainty take their toll as well: Bitcoin value plummeted after the fall of Mt....

It utilizes the services of Tor Anonymizer internet to let users use the service anonymously. With this anonymity came the business where anonymity is essential. The original was launched in 2011 after 6 months of development and shut down by FBI. A silky origin Silk Road was founded in February 2011. Once the site was known publicly, U.S. Since the only things that tied these suspects to Silk Road was their aliases....

We care for Humanity. This has nothing related to cyber war crap. We are not asking for Kashmir. We ask for PEACE ! the hackers said on Facebook. The Kashmir dispute has been ongoing since the two countries were partitions by the outgoing colonial masters in 1947. The national internet backbone, the National Informatics Centre (NIC) servers were effected. Hacker was able to gain root access to few of its servers ....

But around 87% of its targets seems to be in UK. Rovinix is suspected to be the evolution of a another trojan Carberp, which was known to target Russians. Current Iteration In its current form, Rovinix has been spreading through phishing emails. Although it has maintained its record of targeting Windows machines specifically instead of branching out to other OS. The malware spread via infected Andromedia downloader. Its primary target has been credit card credentials....

US security experts have warned that this could actually happen in real world. That means there are a nay number of ways to compromise them and their firmware. The medical machine manufacturers are not working hard behind the scenes to stop this happening. If something untoward was spotted, an investigation could begin. The program could be altered,said the team, to work with any other medical gadget. Resource :New Scientist Read More...

The Cupertino behemoth claims that even they themselves could not extract data even if forced to. He was not alone in either his frustration or surprise. Feature turns flaw The cloud backup feature is very useful in earnest. It lets you access all of your files across multiple Apple devices. And in the misfortune that your machine gets stolen, you wouldnt have lost all of your data. But experts are now asking, are we paying with our privacy for the sake of convenience ?...

Secrecy is warranted and so people involved in the trade are naturally finding out new ways to avoid detection. This has led to online drug sellers at least, adopting crypto-currency as a means of payment. It is cashless, fast and the one currency being accepted currently is especially secretive. It was launched earlier this year with the main goal of being more secretive than Bitcoin. Over the past month, drug dealing websites have been putting this claim to test....

The common trait in this attack was the attack on SSL/TLS weak points. Both these layers are used for securing internet communications. SSL was the one of the earliest and hence is the most popular protocol. The SSL encryption was a mountain they could not move, so they decided to go around it. TLS is its successor and is claimed to be much more resistant to attacks. Although, SSL being as popular as it is, most websites do not support TLS yet....