Any hacker can exploit these holes in your security to read the entire contents of your hard drive, including confidential client information, your financial reports, your credit card information, and much more.
DNS In Kenya Hijacked By Bangladeshi Hacker – International Business TimesSome users visiting google.co.ke (as well as LinkedIn, Microsoft, and other sites) were redirected to a different website with a large "Hacked" stamp thanks to a DNS (domain...
There are many ways a hacker can take advantage of vulnerabilities in your website, many of which don't involve the complexities of attempting to access your code base from a third-party solution. Your first consideration should always be...
A hacker has begun selling what is claim to be a zero-day exploit that will let criminals hijack control of Yahoo Mail users' accounts. The hacker, who goes by the moniker TheHell, posted a video marketing a $700 exploit kit on the secretive...
More than 6.5 million unsalted passwords belonging to members were released by a hacker who posted a link to them on a hacking web site. Professional social network Linkedin faces a class action lawsuit from a user for failing to protect private...
The security firm claims that even though only around 6.5 million encrypted passwords have been posted online, it's likely the unknown hacker has far more data. Around 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords were recently posted to a Russian...
But Glazunoy is not the only hacker that has defeated Chrome's feted security features. Google has updated its Chrome browser, fixing an issue that was first uncovered at the Pwnium browser hacking contest, which took place at the CanSecWest...
If you log into Twitter over unencrypted Wi-Fi – for instance, at an airport lounge or at a conference – and you don't have HTTPS enabled, then a hacker could sniff your session cookie. Users who log on to Twitter over unsecured public Wi-Fi risked...
A few weeks ago, Australian hacker exposed Facebook’s practice of tracking logged out users and they quickly “fixed” the problem (after trying to defend it, initially). To protect the information, this feature is only available after the person...
A man-in-the-middle attack happens when a hacker compromises a connection between a user and the service they are trying to access - in this case, Google. The hacker uses fraudulent, but verifiable credentials, to the user, making the user believe...
I say I “belonged” not because I am a hacker or have a background in hacking, but because in the increasingly competitive world of SEO I see these tactics used on websites every day. Just ask a hacker about WordPress, Google Page Speed Service...
Google recently alerted website owners of a recent trend involving the hacking of websites to insert a canonical tag and point it to the hacker’s site. WebmasterWorld user goodroi claims to have seen evidence of this and I have no reason to doubt...
If I was less scrupulous (OK, and more talented, as I'm not a hacker), I could use this ability to inject scripts into their forms for other more nefarious activities. While open source and open dev systems have many advantages, put yourself in the...
The first acknowledgement/responsibility claim came over at the no2redzone site, from Security Through Hackscurity and read thusly: we hacked becuse zfire xue challenge hacker to hack.he so script child that it take second.site down.site back...
If Chinese hacker cyber attacks have caused Google to have concerns about China, should the Internet community be concerned about Facebook opening operations in China? Quite frankly, Facebook has had numerous security issues.
The information has been posted on hacker sites. This weekend we discovered that Gawker Media's servers were compromised, resulting in a security breach at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot.
Not only has Anonymous sworn to defend WikiLeaks and Assange (a former hacker himself) against all those that have harmed him, but they have also seeded WikiLeaks across at least 780 mirror sites at last count (those are sites that contain his...
The Jester - seriously that is what he calls himself - the hacker supposedly responsible for the first removal of Wikileaks from the web - but then again an imposter jumped in to make that claim and falsely state his office was raided by the police.
Last year when I went to DefCon (a hacker's conference here in Las Vegas), I asked a few hackers just how hard it was to get into Google or the cloud in general. After they were done laughing, they told me they were sorry, and asked if I was...
I was at DefCon this year, a hacker and security conference in Las Vegas, and it's a well-known fact that Facebook has no checks for security on its apps. We can just tell companies like Facebook to stop being careless, stop being sloppy, stop...
