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Yeah, thanks a lot…. in-case you can’t tell its my sarcasm kicking in. After doing heavy damage to KrebsOnSecurity and other web servers the creator of the Mirai DDoS botnet, a program designed to harness insecure IoT devices to run massive Distributed denial of service attacks, has apparently released the […]

Well thanks anna-senpai for the Mirai source code release

28 Oct, 2016 in News tagged DDoS / hackers / marai / mirai / senpai by admin

On october 19 2016, the Dirty Cow vulnerability went public (which is kernel privilege escalation vulnerability) . From what I have read and test, the exploit is working only on Centos 7/ RHEL7 / Cloudlinux 7 distros . CVE-2016-5195 Why is it called the Dirty COW bug? “A race condition […]

Testing for the dirty cow CVE-2016-5195?

21 Oct, 2016 in News tagged CVE-2016-5195 / dirty cow / escalation / exploit / linux by admin

Linux running web servers appear to be at risk of a new strain of ransomware called FairWare. Three Linux administrators, at least for now, have already complained about being targeted by the malicious newcomer. People, who were having trouble with ransomware support thread and posted their quandary on the […]

Potential Ransomware Hits Linux Servers

31 Aug, 2016 in News tagged FairWare / linux / ransomware / server by admin

Kelihos is one of the oldest botnets, first spotted way back in 2008, but it has managed to survive a couple of sinkhole attempts and it is still active. MalwareTech, both owner and operator of the Botnet Tracker project, says that Kelihos devs saw this change as an opportunity and […]

Kelihos Botnet now dishing out Ransomware

30 Aug, 2016 in News tagged botnet / Kelihos / ransomware by admin

It seems that the NSA has been hacked. This is being speculated after a group of hackers going by the name “The Shadow Brokers” has claimed to breach an NSA-controlled hacking organization. The hacking group has leaked some private hacking tools and exploits. The hackers are also asking for 1 […]

NSA potentially hacked by The Shadow Brokers

15 Aug, 2016 in News tagged hacked / nsa / screamingplow / the shadow brokers / usa by admin

From September 1, you’ll need a TV licence if you stream catch-up or on-demand TV from the BBC’s iPlayer service, regardless if you’ve got a television set or not – phone, computer, potato, whatever, you’ll have to cough up the reddies. See this Freedom Of Information Request for further information . […]

BBC sniffing Wi-Fi packets to detect BBC iPlayer users without ...

8 Aug, 2016 in News tagged bbc / iw-fi / kismet / sniffing / wifi by admin

Everyone knows about the joint USA and Israeli malware called Stuxnet that was designed to put a halt to the Iranian nuclear program. According to the new Documentary film Zero Days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/ Stuxnet was really called Operation Olympic Games. This was from an Anonymous NSA employee that work in TAO, which […]

Stuxnet : Operation Olympic Games NSA Codename

11 Jul, 2016 in News tagged 0day / CIA / hackers / Natanz / nsa / Operation Olympic Games / Stuxnet / zero days by admin

The Romanian hacker who first exposed Hillary Clinton’s private email address is making a bombshell new claim — that he also gained access to the former Secretary of State’s “completely unsecured” server. “It was like an open orchid on the Internet,” Marcel Lehel Lazar, who uses the devilish handle Guccifer, […]

Hacker ‘Guccifer’: I Got Inside Hillary Clinton’s Server

11 Jun, 2016 in News tagged clinton / guccifer / hacking / hillary / presidental by admin

Millions of services that ought to be restricted are exposed on the open internet, creating a huge risk of hacker attack against databases and more. Infosec firm Rapid7’s researchers took a close look at the millions and millions of individual services that live on the public IP network, one of […]

Are we surpirsed that Millions of ‘must be firewalled’ services ...

9 Jun, 2016 in News tagged firewall / iot / rapid7 / Security / shodan by admin

TeamViewer has announced two new features today aimed at boosting the app’s security after the company’s reputation was smirched this week. It all happened following a DDoS attack that downed its servers, during which many users flocked online to complain about getting hacked. The two new features are called Trusted […]

Team viewer to beef up security after “hacks” and DDoS

9 Jun, 2016 in News tagged DDoS / hacks / remote control. / teamviewer by admin

Laptops from Dell, HP, Asus, Acer and Lenovo all had at least one vulnerability that could result in complete compromise of system, Duo Security report says. Pre-loaded software update tools installed on laptops from five major OEM PC vendors can lead to a full system compromise in less than 10 […]

OEM Laptops Bloatware allows Remote Code Execution

31 May, 2016 in News tagged Bloatware / Laptop / OEM / RCE by admin

As you all know, there have been many many many data breach’s lately, you know LinkedIn again recently admitted to having a bigger leak than previously thought in 2012. Well , Troy Hunts service HaveIBeenPwned.com has released an update , to include Fling.com ( NSFW ) MySpace, Tumblr and the […]

Have I been Pwned release more updates

31 May, 2016 in News tagged database / hacked / pwned / website by admin

Phineas Fisher, the hacker that was behind the Hacking Team and the Gamma International breaches and data leaks, is at it again. His target was (the Catalan police union). He/She totally pwned the server, while he/she was there he/she defaced the union’s website, plundered their web server, published personal information about police […]

Phineas Fisher records and publishes latest attack

20 May, 2016 in News tagged hacking / Phineas Fisher / Police / video by admin

In surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. Over the past few weeks, an analyst for ESET had noticed that the developers of TeslaCrypt have been slowly closing their doors, while their previous distributors have been switching over to distributing the CryptXXX ransomware. When the […]

TeslaCrypt shuts down and Releases Master Decryption Key

19 May, 2016 in News tagged crypto / ransomware / Teslacrypt by admin

The FBI has managed to unlock the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman without Apple’s help, ending a court case, the US justice department says. Apple had been resisting a court order issued last month requiring the firm to write new software to allow officials to access Syed Rizwan Farook’s […]

FBI crack the iPhone with external help from Cellebrite

29 Mar, 2016 in News tagged cellebrite / encryption / fbi / hacking / iphone / san bernardino by admin