Apple to pay a fine of $32.5m to Customers, for allowing the kids to make In-App Purchases.

However if Apple fails to Return $32.5M to customers, rest will be received by the FTC. source: www.techworm.net

January 22, 2014 · 1 min · 18 words · Gary Murphy

Notorious Hacker Guccifer who hacked Emails of George W. Bush and several other Public Figures Arrested in Romania.

Guccifers list of target is huge In addition to the above mentioned he also hacked Accounts of a U.S. senator, members of the Rockefeller family, former FBI and Secret Service agents, a senior U.N. official, Sidney Blumenthal, an aide to Bill Clinton and members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Their are several Passwords, documents, that Guccifer compromised, the list contains spreadsheet of phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, passwords for various websites, along with drawings, documents such as doodles by Bill Clinton, self-portrait that George W....

January 22, 2014 · 1 min · 185 words · Bill Gilbert

Bank data of 20 Million customers Compromised and leaked in south korea.

However Investigation is still going on, and more arrests are possible in the coming days. source: www.techworm.net

January 20, 2014 · 1 min · 17 words · Sheila Martinez

Google chrome extension, “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” served unwanted Adware.

Two of the Google Chrome extension, Add to Feedly and Tweet This Page which served unwanted ads to user were updated, and extra codes which served the Adware were removed.both the extension were reviewed as spam from most of the users, which made Google chrome team to remove it from the Chrome store, however more than 100,000 users were effected by each of the extensions.Google have rolled out new privacy policy which prevents software developers to insert codes that serves Unwanted ads on the page, and may be Some more extensions serving unwanted Adware can be rectified in the Coming days....

January 20, 2014 · 1 min · 178 words · Donald Barron

Official website of Seychelles Islands Domain Registrar “nic.sc” hacked and defaced.

Pakistani hacker going with the handle rOOX , A member of TeaM MADLEETS hacked and defaced nic.sc, Official website of Seychelles Islands Domain Registrar. nic.sc, Administers the technical registry function and also acts as a local registrar for .SC domain names in Seychelles and provides Domains to Governmental ministries, non-profit organisations, NGOs and educational institutions in Seychelles are all entitled to free domain name registration under the .gov.sc and .edu.sc sub second level domain names....

January 20, 2014 · 1 min · 149 words · Sarah Casey

Syrian Electronic Army keeps their word, now Microsoft Office blog hacked.

#SEAThe tweet also gives a clear proof that SEA still have access to emails of employs. source: www.techworm.net

January 20, 2014 · 1 min · 18 words · Ross Krueger

Bitcoin ATM installations surge in Canada despite Canada Central Bank declaration that Bitcoins are illegal in Canada

The [statement] does not affect us at all. source: www.techworm.net

January 19, 2014 · 1 min · 10 words · Lori Russell

17 year old Russian teen created the malware which was used to hack ‘Target’

He is still visible for us, but the real bad actors responsible for the past attacks on retailers such as Target and Neiman Marcus were just his customers, noted Dan Clements, IntelCrawler president. Read More source: www.techworm.net

January 18, 2014 · 1 min · 37 words · Jacob Perkins

FBI decides to sell 30,000 Bitcoins worth $25 million seized in Silk Road bust

This means that now this 29655 Bitcoins are officially the property of United States Government. Ditto for other big Bitcoin exchanges around the world likeBTC-ebased in Bulgaria. source: www.techworm.net

January 18, 2014 · 1 min · 29 words · Holly Villanueva

Judge in London raps Google allows activists to sue it and says ‘Anonymized does not mean Private’

But the Judge has disallowed any injunction against Google. Judge Tugendhat also rubbished Googles claim that the relevant data was not private as it was anonymized. The Judge ruled that beingAnonymized does not mean private. I find this a surprising submission to be made on behalf of Google Inc. It would not collect and collate the information unless doing so enabled it to produce something of value. source: www.techworm.net

January 16, 2014 · 1 min · 69 words · Robert Hayes

official Twitter account of Shashi Tharoor, the Indian Minister of State for Human Resource Development hacked.

We wish to stress that we are happily married and intend to remain that way. Sunanda has been ill and hospitalised this week and is seeking to rest. source: www.techworm.net

January 16, 2014 · 1 min · 30 words · Haley Skinner

Pakistani hackers ‘Team MaXiMiZerS’ hacks and deface 1400+ Indian websites.

Pakistani hacker Group going with the handle Team MaXiMiZerS hacked and defaced 1448 Indian websites, it is one of the biggest Cyber attack on Indian Cyber space, after15th of August 2013 when More than 6000 Indian websites were hacked.The hacked websites were left defaced with short message over the Kashmir issue. The list of hacked websites can be seen from the paste provided below, Mirror of the Defaced websites : https://zone-h....

January 16, 2014 · 1 min · 113 words · Marcus Clark

RedHack leaks mobile numbers of 4000 employees of Turkcell Turkey for helping politicians

Turkcell employees today received a jolt from the hacker group named RedHack. RedHack had previously leaked mobile numbers of Turkish politicians and authorities. To safeguard the privacy of these politicians and authorities, Turkcell issued them a fresh set of cell numbers. you could view all the 4164 cell numbers here. Here are the numbers of the 4,164 people who work at the Turkcell call center. Are you going to change these too?...

January 16, 2014 · 1 min · 74 words · Timothy Buchanan