Turkey Breach Spills Info on More Than Half Its Citizens
THE NATION OF Turkey has been reeling from terrorist bombings in its biggest cities, a teeming refugee crisis, and a president who wants to rewrite its constitution to give himself more power. Now, in...
View ArticleRussian hacker group Buhtrap targeting largest EU banks
The Russian government has begun working with Russia’s Central Bank to develop a package of measures aimed at fighting Buhtrap, the recently discovered hacker group, which, to date, has stolen around...
View ArticlePhineas Fisher’s Account of How He Broke Into Hacking Team Servers
Almost a year after carrying out his attacks, the hacker behind the Hacking Team data breach has published a step-by-step explainer on how he breached the company’s servers and stole all their data....
View ArticleThe Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Botnet
I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll…bring your web application offline! The possibility of a business being targeted by some huge zombie army, or botnet, is enough to send shivers down the spine of many...
View ArticleHacker Steals 45 Million Records From 1,100 Home, Sports and Tech Support Forums
VerticalScope.com, a company that runs multiple support forums on various topics, has suffered a massive data breach in February 2016 when a hacker managed to steal over 45 million user records from...
View ArticleHow to Protect Yourself or Organization from Malware
Ransomware is one of the most infuriating kinds of cyber attack that’s cropped up over recent years, with hackers raking it in from hapless comouter users who just want their files back. Whilst we all...
View ArticlePasswords have finally evolved into something hackers will hate
The use of patterns or shapes in place of passwords is set to displace the hacker’s favourite – the old-fashioned vulnerable fixed ID code which can so easily be captured and re-used – according to the...
View ArticleA suspected Russian hacker in the Czech Republic is one step closer to being...
A Russian suspected hacker has moved a step closer to being sent to the US as a Czech judge gave tentative approval for an extradition to go ahead, during a court hearing held inside a high-security...
View ArticleHacker Whose Tools Were Used in DNC Hack Steps Forward
A Ukranian hacker called “Profexer” who built one of the tools used to penetrate the Democratic National Committee servers last year has turned himself in to authorities. According to a report today in...
View ArticleBritish MPs Pledge Support for Lauri Love
More than 70 MPs in the UK have pledged their support for alleged hacker, Lauri Love, who is facing extradition to the US. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: IB Times The post British MPs Pledge Support...
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