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Infosec
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Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37
Adrian Lamo, a hacker who was once in the news for informing the FBI about Chelsea Manning, the WikiLeaks…
March 17, 2018
Pre-installed malware on Android devices made $115k revenue in 10 days
Check Point Mobile Security Team discovered a massive, on-going malware campaign that so far has claimed 5 million…
March 16, 2018
APT15 Hackers Hit UK Govt Contractor to Steal Military Technology Secrets
The APT15 hacking group has always been associated with Chinese intelligence and it has been part of quite…
March 13, 2018
Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online
For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached servers to conducted DDoS attacks including the massive attack…
March 7, 2018
Hackers can Send Fake Emergency Alerts by Exploiting 4G LTE Protocol Flaws
Researchers at the Purdue University and the University of Iowa, USA, have managed to break the key 4G…
March 7, 2018
World’s Largest DDoS Attack: US Firm Suffers 1.7 Tbps of DDoS Attack
Last week we reported on the world’s largest DDoS attack that hit Github website and caused a brief…
March 6, 2018
ComboJack Malware Steals Cryptocurrency by Modifying Addresses
A new cryptocurrency-stealing malware dubbed as ComboJack has been discovered by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and Proofpoint…
March 6, 2018
US Air Force Hacked for Good at HackerOne’s Bug Bounty Event
106 Security Flaws Identified in Operationally Significant DoD Websites under US Air Force’s Bug Bounty Challenge. A team…
March 3, 2018
Github hit by 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack; the largest ever
The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks…
March 2, 2018
3,000 Databases with 200 Million Unique accounts found on Dark Web
Dark Web is a strange place where one can conduct all sorts of illegal activities including selling illegal…
February 23, 2018