Tag: hack
Microsoft discovered 71 new ransomware families in first half of 2017
Microsoft recently came out with its Security Intelligence Report which highlighted a global increase in ransomware. The researchers discovered 71 new families of ransomware...
Fact-checker site Verrit hacked hours after Clinton’s endorsement
The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has never shied away from stirring up controversies. While social and mainstream media is abuzz...
More than 700 million email addresses leaked by misconfigured spambot
A misconfigured spambot leaked more than 700 million email addresses and millions of passwords in a massive data breach. Considered to be one of...
OurMine group hacks WikiLeaks to answer “Hack Us” challenge
The anonymous hacking group OurMine recently hacked WikiLeaks, the data-leaking site owned by Julian Assange. The users of the website were redirected to a...
Cyber attack on IT marketplace CeX; two million customer records stolen
In a recent cyber attack on second-hand electronics dealer CeX, the hackers may have stolen personal details of as many as two million customers....
FDA instructs pacemaker recall due to cyber vulnerabilities
The Food and Drug Administration of the United States of America recently issued an alert stating that a total of 745,000 pacemaker devices by...
UK infrastructure not meeting basic cybersecurity standards, survey reveals
Corero Network Security, a company that provides DDoS & Network Security Solutions, recently sent Freedom of Information requests to a number of United Kingdom...
After FC Barcelona, Real Madrid falls prey to Twitter hack
Shortly after breaking in to the social media account of Futbol Club Barcelona, the Ourmine hacking group breached the Twitter account of the Real...
HBO’s social media handles compromised
The barrage of cyber attacks on HBO continues. Still recovering from the attack in July and subsequent leaks of “Game of Thrones” episodes, the...
To fight underrepresentation, scholarships for women galore Hacker Halted
EC-Council and IBM announced a scholarship program for women to attend EC-Council’s Hacker Halted security conference free of charge. Funded by IBM Security, the scholarship is...
