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1.16 Million Payment Cards Breached in Staples Hack
In case anybody still believed we were doing ok on cybersecurity, Staples just announced that malware deployed at 115 of its stores nationwide gave hackers access to some 1.16 million customers' payment cards. Check here to see if your store was hit.
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Hacker Shows Fingerprints Can Be Re-created Using Photographs
Law enforcement and criminals alike have been lifting fingerprints from surfaces (like smartphones and drinking glasses) to either solve crimes or steal identities longer than Law and Order has been on television. But extracting this biometric data is about to get even easier. A member of Chaos Communications Congress (CCC), Europe’s largest hacker association, claims he can re-create fingerprints using photographs of a person’s fingers...
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If You Think the Sony Hack Was a PR Stunt, You’re an Idiot
Over the last few weeks, a handful of people have tweeted at me or emailed to ask what can only be described as a preposterously dumb question. They want to know if I’m behind Sony’s marketing campaign for The Interview or if “someone like me” has orchestrated the entire thing as a stunt.
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Websites of towns near Paris hacked, replaced with ISIS flag
As the manhunt continued for two brothers suspected of carrying out the massacre at the office of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, several municipalities near Paris had their websites taken over with the image of an ISIS flag. Wednesday’s attack in Paris has not been linked to ISIS — several reports have suggested it’s more likely to be connected to the Yemen-based al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — but the cyber-attack appears to be in response to the Charlie Hebdo shootings.
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Watch As Fox Host Gets Hacked On Live TV
Stuart Varney, host of "Varney & Company" on Fox Business Network, was hacked on live television this week by computer security expert and self-described eccentric millionaire John McAfee. Varney asked McAfee to show how he thinks the Sony hackers were able to break into the company's computer systems and got an up-close and personal lesson.
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Crooks Start Encrypting Websites And Demanding Thousands Of Dollars From Businesses
Hackers have found a new way to make easy money: compromising websites, locking up their data and demanding as much as $50,000 to unlock the information. Only a handful of these so-called RansomWeb attacks have been seen before, but they're expected to grow throughout 2015, as criminals realise how much profit they could generate.
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WordPress Security Plugins Alone Do Not Protect Your Site
WordPress security plugins are good tools that will help you boost the security of your WordPress though you should never solely rely on them.
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When You're Hacked in WordPress: Dealing With a Hacked WordPress Site
One of the worst things that can happen to your website just happened: It's been hacked. What to do now?
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14 Year Old Hacks Car with Homespun Kit with Circuits Bought From Radio Shack
A 14-year-old School Going Kid Hacks Car at a Security Camp, leaves experts dumbfounded. It took a 14 year old boy to stun the professional engineers, policy makers and white-hat security experts. The boy who was a part of a 5 day camp for car hacking and cyber security. The boy who was 14 and looked like he was 10 as per Dr.Andrew Brown Jr., VP and Chief Technologist at Delphi Automotive, took up the challenge of remotely hacking a car.
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Lenovo.com has been hacked, possibly by Lizard Squad
Lenovo.com has been hacked. Starting at 4PM ET, users visiting the site saw a slideshow of disaffected youths, set to the song "Breaking Free" from High School Musical. At 4:17, the site seemed to have reverted to its normal self, although HTML problems persist and in some instances, the song continued to play in the background.
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Anatomy of a Hack
In the early morning hours of October 21st, 2014, Partap Davis lost $3,000. He had gone to sleep just after 2AM in his Albuquerque, New Mexico, home after a late night playing World of Tanks. While he slept, an attacker undid every online security protection he set up. By the time he woke up, most of his online life had been compromised: two email accounts, his phone, his Twitter, his two-factor authenticator, and most importantly, his bitcoin wallets.
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If you've ever used Twitch, your logins could be compromised
Twitch, the game streaming website, has been hacked and users’ details have been compromised. Users’ accounts have been reset and it does not seem that any credit card or other financial information has been made available. But passwords do appear to have been leaked and the company recommends that users reset their details on any site where they use the same password.
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Slack confirmed up to 500,000 users personal info has been leaked by hackers
Slack Technologies, creator of popular workroom chat service has been hacked, leaking up to 500,000 users personal information. The service allows employed to manage projects and work, using internal message boards.
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IRS system mined for over 100,000 taxpayer records by fraudsters
In an official statement issued today, the IRS announced that it has shut down an online service to obtain tax records after determining that "unusual activity had taken place on the application, which indicates that unauthorized third parties had access to some accounts on the transcript application." An initial review of that activity revealed "access was gained to more than 100,000 accounts through the Get Transcript application," according to the IRS statement.
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Nude celeb iCloud hack: Feds seize Chicago man's computers
‘Targeted attack’ traced back to IP address
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Kaspersky Lab cybersecurity firm is hacked
One of the leading anti-virus software providers has revealed that its own systems were recently compromised by hackers. Kaspersky Lab said it believed the attack was designed to spy on its newest technologies. It said the intrusion involved up to three previously unknown techniques. The Russian firm added that it was continuing to carry out checks, but believed it had detected the intrusion at an early stage.
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Microsoft website dedicated to online privacy gets hacked
Digital Constitution was running outdated of version of WordPress.
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Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers’ Sex Lives
Infidelity. Sexual fetishes. Drug abuse. Crushing debt. They’re the most intimate secrets of U.S. government workers. And now they’re in the hands of hackers.
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Hacked!
Early on the morning of April 2, 2015, I received a text message from a number with the country code +91: Hi sir… I just figured it was SMS spam, and I ignored it. Eight hours later, I got another message from the same number: U know.. Who I am??
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Adobe Flash exploit that was leaked by Hacking Team goes wild; patch now!
As Ars reported Tuesday morning, the previously unknown Flash vulnerability was part of some 400 gigabytes of data dumped on the Internet by unknown attackers who hacked Hacking Team over the weekend. By Tuesday afternoon, the critical flaw was being targeted in the wild by an array of malware titles, including the Angler and Nuclear exploit kits, as first reported by Malwarebytes (and later documented by the security researcher known as Kafeine). The exploit has also been folded in to...
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