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 […]
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 […]
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 . […]
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 […]
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, […]
Well, not really a security related post but just found out that you can play chess in Facebook Messenger.. Like this You just need to load Messenger and click on a person and type @fbchess. You will get a chess board come up and to make a move you […]
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 […]
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 […]
So your looking for a way to use a free lets encrypt cert on your shared godaddy host? Well this is the place to come. This only works with GoDaddy cPanel hosting, not their classic web hosting. These steps show you how to also add the SSL certificate on multiple […]
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 […]
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 […]
Now many of you that are reading this are fully aware of the wireless hacking arena. So i’m not going to teach you about that, man many decent guides on it out the in the ether. What I did want to point out was a little trick using airodump-ng for […]
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 […]
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 […]
Remember the LinkedIn hack of 2o12? with around 6.5 million password leaked? Well apparently that wasn’t all of it. New information has come to light recently about more than 127 million passwords with SHA1 encryption have been leaked. SHA1 is easy to crack with Hashcat or John the Ripper. If […]