‘NSA’ Surveillance-proof Blackphone gets hacked at Def Con 2014 in 5 Minutes

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August 13, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Trevor Johnson

Beware your Spotify App version 1.1.1 and below for Android may lead to phishing attack on you

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August 5, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Christina Robinson

‘Backoff’ Point Of Sale (POS) malware has infected hundred’s of U.S. businesses

According to aalertreleased on Thursday by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), attackers are using publicly available tools to locate businesses that use remote desktop applications for conducting their online sales. After locating these remote applications,listed below, they brute force these applications to gain administrator or privileged access accounts and finally use it to deploy the malware.Some of these remote desktop applications includes Microsoft Remote Desktop, Apple Remote Desktop, Chrome Remote Desktop, Splashtop, Pulseway, and LogMeIns join....

August 4, 2014 · 2 min · 324 words · Joseph Hull

Mozilla accidentally leaks 76,000 email ids and 4000 password hashes of its developers on a public web server

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August 3, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Catherine Kelley

‘DHL’ tracking SMS sends malware to Android users in Germany with C & C server in Japan

In addition to these actions, every time an SMS message is sent to the infected equipment (but not from any of the numbers from the victims contact list), it will be intercepted and forwarded to a remote server, Read More source: www.techworm.net

August 3, 2014 · 1 min · 42 words · Rodney Hansen

Google tips of police after coming across images of child abuse in perpetrators inbox amidst individual privacy concerns

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August 2, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Alexander Dean

#OpSaveGaza, Anonymous brings down the website of Israeli spy master Mossad through DDoS attack

#Anonymoustakes down: >https://t.co/Hn3U0Sygkm<#OpSaveGaza#OpIsrael#AnonGhost#Palestine#PalestineResists#Gaza#GazaUnderAttack Operation Egypt (@OperationEgypt)July 30, 2014 After the attacks and leaks by AnonGhost on Israeli sites, this is a direct frontal attack on the Israeli Spy Agency and is going to stir things up a bit. Anonymous are protesting against the Israeli attacks on Gaza, which are causing numerous victims, including innocent children and women. Read More source: www.techworm.net

August 1, 2014 · 1 min · 61 words · Joy Bowman

Facebook suffers downtime, Twitter flooded with Facebook downtime tweets

Pressing Help also took back to the same page and pressing Go Back also did the same. The chats were not loading making it difficult for Facebookers to chat with each other. I SAID DONT PANIC. At the time of writing this article, the Facebook is still giving problems though it is up. source: www.techworm.net

August 1, 2014 · 1 min · 55 words · Lauren Guerrero

CIRRUS, Australia’s largest Internet Service Provider DDoSed, half of its network affected

a robust architecture, hundreds of transmission sites and the use of both fibre and microwave backhaul allows it [to] deliver high speeds with very high levels of uptime. Read More source: www.techworm.net

July 31, 2014 · 1 min · 32 words · Ricardo Terry

Symantec Endpoint Protection product suffers from a Zero day Flaw according to Kali Linux pentesters Offensive Security

In a recent engagement, we had the opportunity to audit the Symantec Antivirus Endpoint Protection solution, where we found a multitude of vulnerabilities. Some of these made it to CERT, while others have been scheduled for review during our upcoming AWE course at Black Hat 2014, Las Vegas. Ironically, the same software that was meant to protect the organization under review was the reason for its compromise. Read More source: www....

July 31, 2014 · 1 min · 71 words · Sonya Lang

Canada Blames China of hacking into National Research Council

Canadas Foreign Affairs Minister John Bairdwas in Beijing and was scheduled to hold a press conference. but it was canceled most probably due to above incident. source: www.techworm.net

July 30, 2014 · 1 min · 28 words · Leah Webb

Security researchers find serious exploitable flaws in 14 major Anti-Virus engines like AVG, Bitdefender, ESet, F-Secure

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July 30, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · April Wilson

Twitter, Facebook spammers exploit MH17 crash disaster to make quick bucks

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July 30, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Melissa Ortiz