Hackers hijacks businessman’s phone lines, leaving behind $26k in phone bills

Hackers are always looking for a PABX phone with unsecured voicemail port. he added that the customers are not be blamed in these cases but the Company. If thats where the issue lies then obviously thats not Alans fault. source: www.techworm.net

July 2, 2014 · 1 min · 41 words · Candace Irwin

HotelHippo.com leaking customer details thought it boasts of “COMODO – Authentic & Secure” seal

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July 2, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Brittney Baker

New Android Banking credentials stealer RAT disguising as Google Service Framework

In the past, weve seen Android malware that execute privacy leakage, banking credential theft, or remote access separately, but this sample takes Android malware to a new level by combining all of those activities into one app, In addition, they continued, we found the hacker has designed a framework to conduct bank hijacking and is actively developing towards this goal. We suspect in the near future there will be a batch of bank hijacking malware once the framework is completed....

July 2, 2014 · 2 min · 252 words · Ashley Heath

Anonymous Hacktivists to target the Countries supporting the ISIS group, OpNo2ISIS

We are unable to target ISIS because they predominately fight on the ground. But we can go after the people or states who fund them. More so if the allegation made to the SEA comes true and they are indeed supporting ISIS. source: www.techworm.net

July 1, 2014 · 1 min · 44 words · Nathan Vasquez

Dragonfly hack attack; more than 1000 energy companies in North America and Europe affected

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July 1, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Patricia Ortiz

Google says Good bye to social networking service Orkut, shutting down Orkut to focus more on its other popular services

Google said it will shut down Orkut on September 30th. However over the years it failed to gain world wide users due to tough competition from Facebook. Because the growth of these communities has outpaced Orkuts growth, weve decided to bid Orkut farewell. Company said in a blog post. Orkut started its journey in 2004, the same year when Facebook was founded. A small part of dedicated fans are now left in the Orkut Community....

July 1, 2014 · 1 min · 101 words · Zachary Hartman

PayPal freezes account of email encryption startup ProtonMail, $275,000 lying in account freezed

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July 1, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Mr. Danny Harvey PhD

Official website of “Tails” Operating System hacked, hacker leaves a message that the hack was a accident

It is thought that hack may have been carried out for the LULZ. since the hacker also added the link to the .htcaccess of the website. source: www.techworm.net

June 30, 2014 · 1 min · 28 words · Larry Fisher

Rogue Ad double entendre; malvertising makes money from ad impressions as well as malware downloads

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June 30, 2014 · 1 min · 4 words · Laura Williams

Israel Defense Forces blog hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army

The Israeli Defence Force has neither confirmed the attack nor have any IDF officials commented over the hack. source: www.techworm.net

June 29, 2014 · 1 min · 20 words · Michael Murray

Selfmite a Android worm which spreads itself through Short Message Service (SMS) on smart phones

is reported by AdaptiveMobile in the blog post. source: www.techworm.net

June 29, 2014 · 1 min · 10 words · Lisa Jordan

Android 4.3 Jelly Bean and earlier versions suffering from a serious code execution vulnerability

Therefore, the keyName variable can be controllable with an arbitrary size by a malicious app, Hay said. The encode_key routine that is called by encode_key_for_uid can overflow the filename buffer, since bounds checking is absent. explained the experts However, the Android KeyStore is respawned every time it terminates. source: www.techworm.net

June 28, 2014 · 1 min · 50 words · Eddie Johnson

Hackers used PlugX RAT with “Time Bomb” though Dropbox abuse for targeting a Taiwanese Government Agency

This backdoor also connects to a certain URL for its C&C prefs. This is probably done so that users wont immediately suspect any malicious activities on their systems. source: www.techworm.net

June 27, 2014 · 1 min · 30 words · William Forbes