Reports are pouring in on Apple’s discussion forums from a number of users who are claiming that their iCloud accounts have been compromised. These users claim that spam is being generated from their accounts to the contacts in their list, which essentially means that their account has been hacked.
Online hacktivism is a gaining trend and scores of young fellows, specifically teenage boys, have taken a liking to it and are becoming a part of it. With hacktivist outfits having hacked a lot of websites and revealed leaks of personal and official data, governments around the world are taken their activities a lot more seriously.
Twitter has seen a huge surge in its popularity recently. People from virtually every sphere of life are flocking to the micro-blogging site to vent out their thoughts. However, at the same time, Twitter has become the hub for spammers who spew a huge amount of spam tweets through bots and fake accounts. It would seem that a recent data breach resulting in the public publishing of 55000 accounts’ details may have targeted spammers.
Given the immense expansion of the tech population, it is only inevitable that some security loopholes will go unnoticed for years. Same is the case with a number of exploits in Microsoft’s Office for Mac. Researchers at Microsoft have found out these flaws only now when a new malware attempts to exploit them. The flaws are there in the three-year-old version of Office for Mac.
Adobe has been pretty active in nabbing security vulnerabilities of its software. Now, the company has shipped out a security update for the Flash Player. The update is to fix an exploit in the Flash Player that, Adobe says, is already being utilized by hackers to gain control of Flash Player users.
Online hacktivists have been increasingly vigilant and active in responding to any actions taken against them. There are a number of such outfits online and one of the well-known ones is TeaMp0ison. The group has now claimed through its Twitter account that it has hacked the official websites of WHO, Panasonic and the Australian government.
Many readers may feel surprised at the title of this article but that is what a latest study reveals. According to the study, you are far more likely to be a victim of a malware when visiting a religious website as compared to when visiting a porn site.
Your global and local IP addresses are quite important and are mostly hidden from other users. This is because if a hacker intends to misuse them, he can launch DDoS attacks and cause a lot of problems for you. Now, it has been revealed that a hacker can very easily nick off the local as well as global IP address of a Skype user through a simple hack.
The world has come a long way from being threatened merely by nukes and missiles to now being also threatened by mass-launched cyber attacks. And that is precisely why, the two leading super powers of the world, US and Russia, are now trying to create a direct line of communication between the two nations so as to discuss any possible cyber attacks in the future.
Quite recently, a zero day vulnerability was found in Hotmail which would put the account security of a Hotmail user at jeopardy. The vulnerability allowed a hacker to reset the account’s password to his own choice and through this, lock out the actual owner of the account. That’s apparently the tip of an iceberg. Now, similar vulnerabilities have been found in AOL and Yahoo too.
It took nearly the entire web, with strong retaliation from Google as well as Wikipedia, to put SOPA where it belonged – in the trash. However, hacks in the U.S. House of Representatives were not to be thwarted by this. And now, the House has passed the CISPA bill, tainted as a cybersecurity bill, with a vote of 248 to 268.
Iran’s oil sector has been targeted with a nefarious virus. The attack was so severe that the authorities were forced to unplug the entire oil export terminal system. A cyber crisis team has been set up which will look into the matter and try to resolve it as soon as possible.
Spamming is a popular internet activity that is abhorred by most of us but which, nonetheless, continues to be many people’s job. Junk email, in specific, is being used to spread spam and this mode of spamming is still very popular. Now, according to research by IT security company Sophos, India has overtaken US in being the source of junk email and is currently leading on that list.
Online privacy and anonymity is everyone’s right indeed but it may sometime be abused by the criminal-minded. In a recent case, numerous bomb threats were made to the University of Pittsburgh. While investigation the case, FBI has now seized an anonymizing server which, apparently, was being used by the culprit to hide his/her identity.
Internet has come about to play a critical role in our lives. More so, for the corporate sector, it has become the very life and breathe of numerous businesses. But the hacking tools widely available also have made the online presence a vulnerable option. A 15-year old has been reported to be arrested for hacking and defacing a whooping 259 companies within three months.
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