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iOS vulnerability allows to disable 'Find My iPhone' without password Smartphone manufacturers are adding ways for owners to track and manage their phones if they ever get lost or stolen. Find My iPhone is a service that comes with every iOS device that allows you to track your iPhone, whether it was lost or stolen. Normally, the iPhone requires a password if you want to deactivate “Find My iPhone”, but it isn’t entirely perfect and thieves are now smart ...

 Snapchat app vulnerable to denial-of-service attack, allows remotely crash iPhone SNAPCHAT, photo sharing app is the majority choice for variety of users. Recently, the company has faced data breach and Captcha bypass vulnerability, and just yesterday a new denial-of-service attack has been revealed which can crash an iPhone. Jamie Sanchez, a security researcher has found the app vulnerable, which can enable a hacker to launch a denial-of-service ...

 LINKUP - First Ransomware trojan that modifies DNS settings to mine Bitcoin forcefully Till now we all have heard about the Ransomware malware that encrypts your files or lock down your computer and ask for a ransom amount to be paid in a specified duration of time to unlock it. Emsisoft has detected a new piece of malware called “Linkup”, dubbed as “Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Linkup” that doesn't lock your computer or encrypts files; rather it blocks your Internet access by ...

 Bredo Banking Malware Campaign Targets Bank of America Customers The Major US Financial institution, Bank of America is being targeted by a stealthy malicious financial malware campaign, according to AppRiver report. Last month the researchers at AppRiver has noticed enormous volumes of traffic through their data centers, with the peaks of traffic reaching three or four times than their normal network traffic.  They caught and blocked a malware ...

 British Intelligence Agency DDoSed Anonymous Chatrooms to disrupt communication Since 2011, the collective hacking group, Anonymous and LulzSec were targeting both Government and law-enforcement websites of U.S and UK, by their own DDoS attack tactics which they used to communicate and plan on Chat rooms known as IRCs, but British intelligence agency GCHQ used their own weapon against them. According to the recent Edward Snowden document, a division of Government ...

 Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army On the 10th Anniversary of Social networking website Facebook, the hacker group 'Syrian Electronic Army' claimed that they managed to hack into the administrator account of the Facebook's Domain Registrar - MarkMonitor. The hacking group changed the Facebook Domain's contact information to a Syrian email address on the company’s WHOIS domain information page, as shown. "Happy ...

 Gameover Malware, variant of ZeuS Trojan uses Encryption to Bypass Detection The year begins with the number of new variants of malware that were discovered by various security researchers. The new variants are more complex, sophisticated and mostly undetectable. Two years back in 2012, the FBI warned us about the ‘GameOver’ banking Trojan, a variant of Zeus financial malware that spreads via phishing emails. GameOver makes fraudulent transactions from your bank ...

 End to Microsoft XP support could put millions of computers at risk of hacking

Ottawa Citizen

One recent attack on Bell Canada's network due to an outdated security patch on a server led to hackers getting access to the personal data of 22,400 ...

Mayor's son get probation in computer hacking case

San Francisco Chronicle

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The son of a Hudson County mayor will not have to serve a prison term for his role in the hacking of a website set up by his ...