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2019-01-08 22:20:04 | New KickAss Torrents (KAT) ~ 2019 Best Torrent Sites (Working) (lien direct) | Good news, the new Kickass Torrents site is back.
Back in July 2017, popular BitTorrent site Kickass Torrents (KAT cr) was taken down by the United States authorities.
The peer to peer file sharing site became the world's biggest piracy hub after The Pirate Bay went offline.
Now shortly after law enforcement shut down the original KAT site, a group of devoted site staffers launched the
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2019-01-08 09:06:00 | 20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany\'s Biggest Data Leak (lien direct) | German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month.
The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police raided his parent's house in west-central German State of Hesse on Sunday and recovered a computer
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2019-01-08 04:00:00 | Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever (lien direct) | Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers!
Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online chat applications.
Zerodium-a startup by the infamous French-based company Vupen that buys and sells
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2019-01-08 03:27:01 | Ethereum Classic (ETC) Hit by Double-Spend Attack Worth $1.1 Million (lien direct) | Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has suspended all transactions of Ethereum Classic (ETC)-the original unforked version of the Ethereum network-on their trading platforms, other products and services after detecting a potential attack on the cryptocurrency network that let someone spend the same digital coins twice.
Why is this attack concerning? The heist resulted in the loss of $1.1
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2019-01-07 01:37:01 | NSA to release its GHIDRA reverse engineering tool for free (lien direct) | The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) is planning to release its internally developed reverse engineering tool for free at the upcoming RSA security conference 2019 that will be held in March in San Francisco.
The existence of the framework, dubbed GHIDRA, was first publicly revealed by WikiLeaks in CIA Vault 7 leaks, but the tool once again came to light after Senior NSA Adviser
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2019-01-05 01:37:03 | Town of Salem Data Breach Exposes 7.6 Million Gamers\' Accounts (lien direct) | A massive data breach at the popular online role-playing game 'Town of Salem' has reportedly impacted more than 7.6 million players, the game owner BlankMediaGames (BMG) confirmed Wednesday on its online forum.
With the user base of more than 8 million players, Town of Salem is a browser-based game that enables gamers (which range from 7 to 15 users) to play a version of the famous secret role
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2019-01-04 05:52:01 | Hackers Leak Personal Data from Hundreds of German Politicians On Twitter (lien direct) | Germany has been hit with the biggest hack in its history.
A group of unknown hackers has leaked highly-sensitive personal data from more than 100 German politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Brandenburg's prime minister Dietmar Woidke, along with some German artists, journalists, and YouTube celebrities.
The leaked data that was published on a Twitter account (@_0rbit) and
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2019-01-04 00:13:01 | Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader (lien direct) | I hope you had biggest, happiest and craziest New Year celebration, but now it's time to come back at work and immediately update your systems to patch new security flaws that could exploit your computer just by opening a PDF file.
Adobe has issued an out-of-band security update to patch two critical vulnerabilities in the company's Acrobat and Reader for both the Windows and macOS operating
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2019-01-03 07:16:03 | Thousands of Google Chromecast Devices Hijacked to Promote PewDiePie (lien direct) | A group of hackers has hijacked tens of thousands of Google's Chromecast streaming dongles, Google Home smart speakers and smart TVs with built-in Chromecast technology in recent weeks by exploiting a bug that's allegedly been ignored by Google for almost five years.
The attackers, who go by Twitter handles @HackerGiraffe and @j3ws3r, managed to hijack Chromecasts' feeds and display a pop-up,
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2019-01-03 04:37:04 | Google Partially Patches Flaw in Chrome for Android 3 Years After Disclosure (lien direct) | Google has finally patched a privacy vulnerability in its Chrome web browser for Android that exposes users' device model and firmware version, eventually enabling remote attackers to identify unpatched devices and exploit known vulnerabilities.
The vulnerability, which has not yet given any CVE number, is an information disclosure bug that resides in the way the Google Chrome for Android
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2018-12-21 00:50:02 | FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged (lien direct) | The FBI just saved the Christmas.
The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 "DDoS-for-hire" websites and charged three individuals running some of these services.
DDoS-for-hire, or "Booter" or "Stresser," services rent out access to a network of infected devices, which then can be used by anyone, even the least tech-savvy individual, to launch
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2018-12-20 23:45:03 | US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign (lien direct) | The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged two Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries.
The Chinese nationals, Zhu Hua (known online as Afwar, CVNX, Alayos and Godkiller) and Zhang Shilong (known online as Baobeilong, Zhang Jianguo and Atreexp), are believed to be members of a state-sponsored
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2018-12-20 07:49:02 | Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter (lien direct) | A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system.
SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day vulnerabilities, leaving all Windows users vulnerable to the hackers until Microsoft patched them.
The
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2018-12-19 23:35:00 | (Déjà vu) Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day (lien direct) | Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers.
Discovered by security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group, the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-8653, is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the IE
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2018-12-19 00:43:03 | Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach (lien direct) | Another day, another data breach. This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency's servers was hacked.
In an internal memo sent to all employees on Tuesday, NASA said the unknown hackers managed
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2018-12-18 03:35:03 | Twitter Discloses Suspected State-Sponsored Attack After Minor Data Breach (lien direct) | Twitter has been hit with a minor data breach incident that the social networking site believes linked to a suspected state-sponsored attack.
In a blog post published on Monday, Twitter revealed that while investigating a vulnerability affecting one of its support forms, the company discovered evidence of the bug being misused to access and steal users' exposed information.
The impacted
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2018-12-18 01:54:04 | New Malware Takes Commands From Memes Posted On Twitter (lien direct) | Security researchers have discovered yet another example of how cybercriminals disguise their malware activities as regular traffic by using legitimate cloud-based services.
Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a new piece of malware that retrieves commands from memes posted on a Twitter account controlled by the attackers.
Most malware relies on communication with their
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2018-12-14 22:05:01 | Critical SQLite Flaw Leaves Millions of Apps Vulnerable to Hackers (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in widely used SQLite database software that exposes billions of deployments to hackers.
Dubbed as 'Magellan' by Tencent's Blade security team, the newly discovered SQLite flaw could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary or malicious code on affected devices, leak program memory or crash applications.
SQLite is a
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2018-12-14 10:01:02 | New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps (lien direct) | Facebook's latest screw-up - a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6.8 million users.
Facebook today quietly announced that it discovered a new API bug in its photo-sharing system that let 876 developers access users' private photos which they never shared on their timeline, including images uploaded
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2018-12-14 08:19:01 | New Shamoon Malware Variant Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company (lien direct) | Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia's largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East.
Earlier this week, Italian oil drilling company Saipem was attacked and sensitive files on about 10 percent of its servers were destroyed, mainly in the Middle East,
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2018-12-14 04:57:00 | Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada (lien direct) | "Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building"
A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationwide chaos, forcing widespread evacuations and police response.
The bomb threat emails were apparently sent by spammers, threatening people that
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2018-12-12 02:35:02 | Adobe\'s Year-End Update Patches 87 Flaws in Acrobat Software (lien direct) | Adobe is closing out this year with its December Patch Tuesday update to address a massive number of security vulnerabilities for just its two PDF apps-more than double the number of what Microsoft patched this month for its several products.
Adobe today released patches for 87 vulnerabilities affecting its Acrobat and Reader software products for both macOS and Windows operating systems, of
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2018-12-12 00:49:05 | Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack (lien direct) | Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications-10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity.
One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant this month is listed as publicly known at the time of release, and one is a zero-day reported as being
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2018-12-11 07:49:05 | phpMyAdmin Releases Critical Software Update - Patch Your Sites Now! (lien direct) | Developers of phpMyAdmin, one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems, today released an updated version 4.8.4 of its software to patch several important vulnerabilities that could eventually allow remote attackers to take control of the affected web servers.
The phpMyAdmin project last Sunday gave an early heads-up about the latest security update through its
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2018-12-10 13:02:02 | Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users (lien direct) | Google today revealed that Google+ has suffered another massive data breach, forcing the tech giant to shut down its struggling social network four months earlier than its actual scheduled date, i.e., in April 2019 instead of August 2019.
Google said it discovered another critical security vulnerability in one of Google+'s People APIs that could have allowed developers to steal private
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2018-12-07 05:18:03 | Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Bill-Here\'s Everything You Need To Know (lien direct) | Australia's House of Representatives has finally passed the "Telecommunications Assistance and Access Bill 2018," also known as the Anti-Encryption Bill, on Thursday that would now allow law enforcement to force Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, Signal, and other tech giants to help them access encrypted communications.
The Australian government argues the new legislation is important for national
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2018-12-06 08:17:03 | Warning! Unprivileged Linux Users With UID > INT_MAX Can Execute Any Command (lien direct) | Hold tight, this may blow your mind…
A low-privileged user account on most Linux operating systems with UID value anything greater than 2147483647 can execute any systemctl command unauthorizedly-thanks to a newly discovered vulnerability.
The reported vulnerability actually resides in PolicyKit (also known as polkit)-an application-level toolkit for Unix-like operating systems that defines
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2018-12-06 03:22:02 | New Adobe Flash Zero-Day Exploit Found Hidden Inside MS Office Docs (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that hackers are actively exploiting in the wild as part of a targeted campaign appears to be attacking a Russian state health care institution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-15982, is a use-after-free flaw resides in Flash Player that, if exploited successfully, allows an attacker to execute
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2018-12-05 03:39:01 | WhiteSource Bolt for GitHub: Free Open Source Vulnerability Management App for Developers (lien direct) | Developers around the world depend on open source components to build their software products. According to industry estimates, open source components account for 60-80% of the code base in modern applications.
Collaboration on open source projects throughout the community produces stronger code, squashing the bugs and catching the vulnerabilities that impact the security of organizations
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2018-12-04 11:29:01 | New Ransomware Spreading Rapidly in China Infected Over 100,000 PCs (lien direct) | A new piece of ransomware is spreading rapidly across China that has already infected more than 100,000 computers in the last four days as a result of a supply-chain attack, and the number is continuously increasing every hour.
What's Interesting? Unlike almost every ransomware malware, the new virus doesn't demand ransom payments in Bitcoin.
Instead, the attackers are asking victims to pay
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2018-12-04 02:32:03 | Microsoft building Chrome-based browser to replace Edge on Windows 10 (lien direct) | It is no secret how miserably Microsoft's 3-year-old Edge web browser has failed to compete against Google Chrome despite substantial investment and continuous improvements.
According to the latest round of tech rumors, Microsoft has given up on Edge and reportedly building a new Chromium-based web browser, dubbed project codename "Anaheim" internally, that will replace Edge on Windows 10
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2018-12-03 22:52:04 | Quora Gets Hacked – 100 Million Users Data Stolen (lien direct) | The World's most popular question-and-answer website Quora has suffered a massive data breach with unknown hackers gaining unauthorized access to potentially sensitive personal information of about 100 million of its users.
Quora announced the incident late Monday after its team last Friday discovered that an unidentified malicious third-party managed to gain unauthorized access to one of its
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2018-12-03 05:18:05 | Become a Certified Hacker With This Hands-On Training Course (lien direct) | It seems as though not a day goes by without news spreading over another major cyber attack.
Hackers are becoming increasingly efficient at targeting everything from small startups to Fortune 500 companies and even entire government agencies, and as the world moves further away from traditional types of warfare and more toward engaging in all-out cyber warfare, these attacks are only going to
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2018-12-01 03:00:00 | Someone Hacked 150,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel (lien direct) | This may sound crazy, but it's true!
The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than 150,000 internet-connected printers worldwide to print out flyers asking everyone to subscribe to PewDiePie YouTube channel.
PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, is a famous YouTuber from
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2018-11-30 05:25:04 | 500 Million Marriott Guest Records Stolen in Starwood Data Breach (lien direct) | The world's biggest hotel chain Marriott International today disclosed that unknown hackers compromised guest reservation database its subsidiary Starwood hotels and walked away with personal details of about 500 million guests.
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide was acquired by Marriott International for $13 billion in 2016. The brand includes St. Regis, Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, W
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2018-11-28 21:07:03 | Dell Resets All Customers\' Passwords After Potential Security Breach (lien direct) | Multinational computer technology company Dell disclosed Wednesday that its online electronics marketplace experienced a "cybersecurity incident" earlier this month when an unknown group of hackers infiltrated its internal network.
On November 9, Dell detected and disrupted unauthorized activity on its network attempting to steal customer information, including their names, email addresses and
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2018-11-28 09:40:05 | U.S Charges Two Iranian Hackers for SamSam Ransomware Attacks (lien direct) | The Department of Justice announced Wednesday charges against two Iranian nationals for their involvement in creating and deploying the notorious SamSam ransomware.
The alleged hackers, Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah, 27, have been charged on several counts of computer hacking and fraud charges, the indictment unsealed today at New Jersey court revealed.
The duo used
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2018-11-28 02:43:05 | FBI Shuts Down Multimillion Dollar – 3ve – Ad Fraud Operation (lien direct) | Google, the FBI, ad-fraud fighting company WhiteOps and a collection of cyber security companies worked together to shut down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud schemes that infected over 1.7 million computers to generate fake clicks used to defraud online advertisers for years and made tens of millions of dollars in revenue.
Dubbed 3ve (pronounced "Eve"), the online
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2018-11-27 05:39:03 | Uber fined $1.1 million by UK and Dutch regulators over 2016 data breach (lien direct) | British and Dutch data protection regulators Tuesday hit the ride-sharing company Uber with a total fine of $1,170,892 (~ 1.1 million) for failing to protect its customers' personal information during a 2016 cyber attack involving millions of users.
Late last year, Uber unveiled that the company had suffered a massive data breach in October 2016, exposing names, email addresses and phone
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2018-11-27 03:12:01 | 8 Popular Android Apps Caught Up In Million-Dollar Ad Fraud Scheme (lien direct) | Cheetah Mobile-a prominent Chinese app company, known for its popular utility apps like Clean Master and Battery Doctor-and one of its subsidiary Kika Tech have allegedly been caught up in an Android ad fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from advertisers.
According to app analytics firm Kochava, 7 Android apps developed by Cheetah Mobile and 1 from Kika Tech with a total 2 billion
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2018-11-26 23:58:03 | Rogue Developer Infects Widely Used NodeJS Module to Steal Bitcoins (lien direct) | A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was programmed to steal funds stored in Bitcoin wallet apps.
The Node.js library in question is "Event-Stream," a toolkit that makes it easy for developers to create and work with streams, a collection of
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2018-11-22 03:19:04 | US Postal Service Left 60 Million Users Data Exposed For Over a Year (lien direct) | The United States Postal Service has patched a critical security vulnerability that exposed the data of more than 60 million customers to anyone who has an account at the USPS.com website.
The U.S.P.S. is an independent agency of the American federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the
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2018-11-22 00:52:01 | How Just Opening A Site In Safari Could Have Hacked Your Apple macOS (lien direct) | Earlier this week Dropbox team unveiled details of three critical vulnerabilities in Apple macOS operating system, which altogether could allow a remote attacker to execute malicious code on a targeted Mac computer just by convincing a victim into visiting a malicious web page.
The reported vulnerabilities were originally discovered by Syndis, a cybersecurity firm hired by Dropbox to conduct
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2018-11-21 08:15:02 | Get paid up to $40,000 for finding ways to hack Facebook or Instagram accounts (lien direct) | Here we have great news for all bug bounty hunters.
Now you can get paid up to $40,000 for finding and responsibly reporting critical vulnerabilities in the websites and mobile applications owned by Facebook that could allow cyber attackers to take over user accounts.
In the latest post published Tuesday on the Facebook page, the social networking giant announced that it has raised the
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2018-11-21 01:56:05 | Real Identity of Hacker Who Sold LinkedIn, Dropbox Databases Revealed (lien direct) | The real identity of Tessa88-the notorious hacker tied to several high-profile cyber attacks including the LinkedIn, DropBox and MySpace mega breaches-has been revealed as Maksim Vladimirovich Donakov (Максим Владимирович Донаков), a resident of Penza, Russian Federation.
In early 2016, a hacker with pseudonym Tessa88 emerged online offering stolen databases from some of the biggest social media
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2018-11-20 08:30:05 | 3 New Code Execution Flaws Discovered in Atlantis Word Processor (lien direct) | This is why you should always think twice before opening innocent looking email attachments, especially word and pdf files.
Cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos have once again discovered multiple critical security vulnerabilities in the Atlantis Word Processor that allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and take over affected computers.
An alternative to Microsoft Word,
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2018-11-20 04:46:04 | Safeguard Your Data And Privacy Online With This Award-Winning VPN (lien direct) | It seems as though not a day goes by without a new story breaking about a high-level cyber attack on a major corporation or national government.
Hackers are becoming increasingly adept at breaking through a variety of super-secure firewalls, and they're not just after the riches of Fortune 500 companies.
Hackers are equally (if not more) interested in hacking into your personal computer and
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2018-11-20 03:00:03 | Two TalkTalk hackers jailed for 2015 data breach that cost it £77 million (lien direct) | Two hackers have been sent to prison for their roles in hacking TalkTalk, one of the biggest UK-based telecommunications company, in 2015 and stealing personal information, banking, and credit card details belonging to more than 156,000 customers.
Matthew Hanley, 23, and Connor Allsopp, 21, both from Tamworth in Staffordshire, were sentenced Monday to 12 months and 8 months in prison,
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2018-11-19 02:13:00 | Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users\' Passwords In Plaintext (lien direct) | Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users' passwords in plain text.
The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered feature called "Download Your Data" that allows users to download a copy of their data shared on the social media platform, including photos,
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2018-11-16 03:22:04 | Secret Charges Against Julian Assange Revealed Due to "Cut-Paste" Error (lien direct) | Has Wikileaks founder Julian Assange officially been charged with any unspecified criminal offense in the United States? - YES
United States prosecutors have accidentally revealed the existence of criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a recently unsealed court filing in an unrelated ongoing sex crime case in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Assistant US Attorney Kellen
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