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Equifax Leak — The worst case of personal information leak ever
Equifax Leak — The worst case of personal information leak ever
It’s a sad reality in 2017 that a data breach affecting 143 million people is dwarfed by other recent hacks — for instance, the ones…
Shahmeer Amir
Sep 8, 2017
ROCA: Vulnerable RSA generation — A new age of Encryption vulnerabilities
ROCA: Vulnerable RSA generation — A new age of Encryption vulnerabi...
A security vulnerability was found in the implementation of RSA keypair generation in a cryptographic library used in a wide range of…
Shahmeer Amir
Oct 16, 2017
Attacks on Wordpress sites using Home Routers
Attacks on Wordpress sites using Home Routers
Heads of locales utilizing the famous blogging framework WordPress confront another issue, The launch of brute force attacks from insecure…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 12, 2017
Not only Hackers but governments also are using MS Word 0days
Not only Hackers but governments also are using MS Word 0days
Recently a Code execution vulnerability was reported in MS word which put the entire internet in havoc which was actively being used by…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 13, 2017
NSA has been spying on our telecos and what can we do to fix it
NSA has been spying on our telecos and what can we do to fix it
The recent news that has been propagating about NSA’s presence inside of Mobilink’s networks is a shiny indicator as to where we lie in the…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 11, 2017
Creator of Kelhios Botnet arrested in Spain
Creator of Kelhios Botnet arrested in Spain
A Russian PC programmer captured throughout the end of the week in Barcelona was confined for his part in a huge PC botnet, and not a year…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 12, 2017
Android OS designed to block Ransomware
Android OS designed to block Ransomware
The upcoming version of Android called Android O is said to have a dedicated Anti ransomware system built in its core to prevent such…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 13, 2017
Shadow broker’s reveal NSA’s presence inside Middle Eastern Banking systems
Shadow broker’s reveal NSA’s presence inside Middle Eastern Banking...
The news about the NSA’s presence inside Mobilink’s networks has been spreaded around and used a defamation technique for the country. But…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 14, 2017
Flaw in Car dongle allows hackers to control Car Engines
Flaw in Car dongle allows hackers to control Car Engines
Researchers found flaws in Bosch’s Drivelog Connect product which can be compromised by hackers to inject some malicious messages into the…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 14, 2017
University email credentials for sale on the dark web
University email credentials for sale on the dark web
The Dark web is full of surprises, this time it shocks us by showing a leaked credential databases from the largest universities in the US.
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 13, 2017
Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets
Three Chinese Hackers Fined $9 Million for Stealing Trade Secrets
Three Chinese hackers have been ordered to pay $8.8 million (£6.8 million) after hacking email servers of two major New York-based law…
Shahmeer Amir
May 11, 2017
Shadow Brokers Return with New and more deadly 0-day exploits
Shadow Brokers Return with New and more deadly 0-day exploits
The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers — the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend’s WannaCrypt…
Shahmeer Amir
May 16, 2017
New Unicode Phishing attack in modern browsers
New Unicode Phishing attack in modern browsers
A Chinese security researcher has demonstrated a scary phishing attack that’s virtually impossible to detect in web browsers like Chrome…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 18, 2017
UK Parliment hit by a massive Cyber attack. Is Pakistan ready for such an attack?
UK Parliment hit by a massive Cyber attack. Is Pakistan ready for s...
A cyber attack has hit the email system of UK Houses of Parliament on Friday morning that breached at least 90 emails accounts protected by…
Shahmeer Amir
Jun 26, 2017
Financial Cyber Criminal from Russia Jailed for 9 years
Financial Cyber Criminal from Russia Jailed for 9 years
A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million…
Shahmeer Amir
Jul 12, 2017
Android Ransomware which threatens to make your private data public
Android Ransomware which threatens to make your private data public
After WannaCry and Petya ransomware outbreaks, a scary (but rather creative) new strain of ransomware is spreading via bogus apps on the…
Shahmeer Amir
Jul 13, 2017
NHS 1.2 million patient name database hacked ‘to expose weaknesses’
NHS 1.2 million patient name database hacked ‘to expose weaknesses’
The NHS has suffered a data breach in its SwiftQueue appointment booking system whose database contains confidential records on up to 1.2…
Shahmeer Amir
Aug 22, 2017
Hackers lie in wait after penetrating US and Europe power grid networks
Hackers lie in wait after penetrating US and Europe power grid netw...
Nation-sponsored hackers have penetrated the operational networks multiple US and European energy companies use to control key parts of the…
Shahmeer Amir
Sep 7, 2017
6 lessons ‘Ghost in the Shell’ can teach you about cyber security
6 lessons ‘Ghost in the Shell’ can teach you about cyber security
The original Ghost in the Shell (GitS) movie was practically compulsory material in the hacker subculture of the late 90s, early 2000s. The…
Shahmeer Amir
Apr 16, 2017
WannaCry Ransomware linked to Lazarus Group
WannaCry Ransomware linked to Lazarus Group
WannaCry has been the talk of the town recently. But there is another side to the picture.
Shahmeer Amir
May 16, 2017
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