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2018-11-08 03:13:00 | StatCounter Analytics Code Hijacked to Steal Bitcoins from Cryptocurrency Users (lien direct) | Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to steal Bitcoins by compromising the web analytics service it was using.
ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou this weekend spotted malicious JavaScript code on up to 700,000 websites that were bundled with the traffic tracking code from the leading web analytics platform
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2018-10-19 01:35:04 | Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System (lien direct) | A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems-called FreeRTOS-and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers.
What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS OpenRTOS, SafeRTOS)?
FreeRTOS is a leading open source real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded
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2018-10-17 07:18:02 | LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Author Gets 30-Months Prison Sentence (lien direct) | A 21-year-old Kentucky man who previously pleaded guilty to developing, marketing, and selling an infamous remote access trojan (RAT) called LuminosityLink has now been sentenced to 30 months in prison.
According to a press release published Monday by U.S. Attorney's Office, Colton Grubbs, who used online moniker 'KFC Watermelon,' was pleaded guilty for three counts--unlawfully accessing
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2018-10-11 02:19:05 | French Dark-Web Drug Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in US Prison (lien direct) | A dark web drugs kingpin who was arrested last year when he arrived in the United States to compete in the World Beard and Mustache Championships has now been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola sentenced 36-year-old French national Gal Vallerius, aka "OxyMonster," after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute
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2018-10-06 00:52:04 | Silk Road Admin Pleads Guilty – Could Face Up to 20 Years in Prison (lien direct) | An Irish national who helped run the now-defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road pleaded guilty on Friday to drug trafficking charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Gary Davis, also known as Libertas, was one of Silk Road's site administrators and forum moderators for Silk Road, then-largest underground marketplace on the Internet used by thousands of users to sell and
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2018-09-28 01:35:00 | Google Hacker Discloses New Linux Kernel Vulnerability and PoC Exploit (lien direct) | A cybersecurity researcher with Google Project Zero has released the details, and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a high severity vulnerability that exists in Linux kernel since kernel version 3.16 through 4.18.8.
Discovered by white hat hacker Jann Horn, the kernel vulnerability (CVE-2018-17182) is a cache invalidation bug in the Linux memory management subsystem that leads to
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2018-09-27 12:20:00 | 16-Year-Old Boy Who Hacked Apple\'s Private Systems Gets No Jail Time (lien direct) | An Australian teenager who pleaded guilty to break into Apple's private systems multiple times over several months and download some 90GB of secure files has avoided conviction and will not serve time in prison.
An Australian Children's Court has given the now 19-year-old adult defendant, who was 16 at the time of committing the crime, a probation order of eight months, though the magistrate
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2018-09-19 07:07:00 | Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail (lien direct) | Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other "complex" cybercrime cases in return to avoid their lengthy prison terms.
Paras Jha, 21 from New Jersey, Josiah White, 20 from Washington, and Dalton Norman, 21 from Louisiana, plead guilty in December 2017 to multiple charges for their role
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2018-09-13 06:47:04 | Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet (lien direct) | The Russian man who was accused of operating the infamous Kelihos botnet has finally pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court.
Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. federal court in Connecticut to computer crime, wire fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges.
Levashov, also known by many online aliases including Peter Severa, Petr
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2018-08-24 01:18:04 | NSA Leaker \'Reality Winner\' Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison (lien direct) | A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
Reality Winner, a 26-year-old Georgia woman who held a top-secret security clearance and worked as a government contractor in Georgia with Pluribus International,
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2018-08-21 03:34:05 | Google Sued Over Misleading Users About Location Tracking Feature (lien direct) | Google was in the news last week for a misleading claim that "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored," which is not true.
Now, the search engine giant is once again in the news after a San Diego man has filed the first lawsuit against Google over this issue.
Last week, the Associated Press investigation revealed that the search engine giant tracks movements of
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2018-08-15 02:28:00 | Former Microsoft Engineer Gets Prison for Role in Reveton Ransomware (lien direct) | A former Microsoft network engineer who was charged in April this year has now been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to money laundering in connection with the Reveton ransomware.
Reveton malware is old ransomware, also known as scareware or police ransomware that instead of encrypting files locks the screen of victims' computers and displays a message purporting to come
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2018-08-07 11:57:05 | How to Hack WiFi Password Easily Using New Attack On WPA/WPA2 (lien direct) | Looking for how to hack WiFi password OR WiFi hacking software?
Well, a security researcher has revealed a new WiFi hacking technique that makes it easier for hackers to crack WiFi passwords of most modern routers.
Discovered by the lead developer of the popular password-cracking tool Hashcat, Jens 'Atom' Steube, the new WiFi hack works explicitly against WPA/WPA2 wireless network protocols
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2018-07-27 04:55:03 | Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Android Apps From the Play Store (lien direct) | Following Apple's lead in banning cryptocurrency mining apps, Google has also updated its Play Store policy this week to ban apps that mine cryptocurrencies on users' devices in the background.
However, there are countless cryptocurrency mining apps, including MinerGate, AA Miner, NeoNeonMiner, and Crypto Miner, still available on the Play Store.
Cryptocurrency mining is not a new concept,
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2018-07-26 11:43:04 | CoinVault Ransomware Authors Sentenced to 240 Hours of Community Service (lien direct) | Almost three years after the arrest of two young Dutch brothers, who pleaded guilty to their involvement in creating and distributing CoinVault ransomware malware, a district court in Rotterdam today sentenced them to 240 hours of community service.
In 2015, the two suspects - Melvin (25-year-old) and Dennis van den B. (21-year-old) - were arrested from Amersfoort on suspicion of involvement
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2018-05-30 00:30:03 | Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison (lien direct) | A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Karim Baratov (a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov), a Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, was also ordered on Tuesday by United States Judge Vince Chhabria to pay a
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2018-04-24 05:53:03 | Nintendo Switches Hacked to Run Linux-Unpatchable Exploit Released (lien direct) | Two separate teams of security researchers have published working proof-of-concept exploits for an unpatchable vulnerability in Nvidia's Tegra line of embedded processors that comes on all currently available Nintendo Switch consoles.
Dubbed Fusée Gelée and ShofEL2, the exploits lead to a coldboot execution hack that can be leveraged by device owners to install Linux, run unofficial games,
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2018-03-31 03:57:02 | Russian Hacker Who Allegedly Hacked LinkedIn and Dropbox Extradited to US (lien direct) | A Russian man accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring in 2012 and possibly compromising personal details of over 100 million users, has pleaded not guilty in a U.S. federal court after being extradited from the Czech Republic.
Yevgeniy Aleksandrovich Nikulin, 30, of Moscow was arrested in Prague on October 5, 2016, by Interpol agents working in collaboration with the FBI, but he
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2018-03-26 12:51:04 | Leader of Hacking Group Who Stole $1 Billion From Banks Arrested In Spain (lien direct) | Spanish Police has arrested the alleged leader of an organised Russian cybercrime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks, which stole over a billion euros from banks worldwide since 2013.
In a coordinated operation with law enforcement agencies across the globe, including the FBI and Europol, Police detained the suspected leader of Carbanak hacking group in Alicante, Spain.
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2018-02-27 04:33:05 | Hacker Who Never Hacked Anyone Gets 33-Month Prison Sentence (lien direct) | A hacker who was arrested and pleaded guilty last year-not because he hacked someone, but for creating and selling a remote access trojan that helped cyber criminals-has finally been sentenced to serve almost three years in prison.
Taylor Huddleston, 26, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty in July 2017 to one charge of aiding and abetting computer intrusions by building and intentionally
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2018-01-20 02:51:49 | 15-Year-Old Schoolboy Posed as CIA Chief to Hack Highly Sensitive Information (lien direct) | Remember "Crackas With Attitude"?
A notorious pro-Palestinian hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks against United States intelligence officials and leaked the personal details of 20,000 FBI agents, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security officers, and some number of DoJ staffers in 2015.
Believe or not, the leader of this hacking group was just 15-years-old when he used "social
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2017-12-13 08:54:38 | Two Hackers Plead Guilty to Creating IoT-based Mirai DDoS Botnet (lien direct) | The U.S. federal officials have arrested two hackers who have pleaded guilty to computer-crimes charges for creating and distributing Mirai botnet that crippled some of the world's biggest and most popular websites by launching the massive DDoS attacks last year.
According to the federal court documents unsealed Tuesday, Paras Jha and Josiah White were indicted by an Alaska court last week on
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2017-12-05 00:38:48 | Young Hacker, Who Took Over Jail Network to Get Friend Released Early, Faces Prison (lien direct) | Well, "a friend in need is a friend indeed" goes a long way, but in this case, this phrase hardly makes any sense.
A 27-year-old Michigan man who hacked into the government computer system of Washtenaw County Jail to alter inmate records and gain early release for his friend is now himself facing federal charges after getting caught.
Konrads Voits from Ann Arbor, Michigan, pleaded guilty in
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2017-12-02 02:14:27 | Here\'s the NSA Employee Who Kept Top Secret Documents at Home (lien direct) | A former employee-who worked for an elite hacking group operated by the U.S. National Security Agency-pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later stolen by Russian hackers.
In a press release published Friday, the US Justice Department announced that Nghia Hoang Pho, a 67-year-old of Ellicott City, Maryland, took documents that contained top-secret
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2017-11-29 00:56:38 | 22-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to 2014 Yahoo Hack, Admits Helping Russian Intelligence (lien direct) | Karim Baratov, a 22-year-old Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen, has pleaded guilty to hacking charges over his involvement in massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected all three billion yahoo accounts.
In March, the US Justice Department announced charges against two Russian intelligence officers (Dmitry Dokuchaev and Igor Sushchin) from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and two
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2017-08-16 05:45:21 | Corrupt Federal Agent, Who Stole Bitcoins From Silk Road, Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering (lien direct) | A former the United States Secret Service agent who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins during an investigation into then-largest underground marketplace Silk Road has now pleaded guilty to money laundering.
Shaun W. Bridges is one of two former US undercover agents who pleaded guilty in 2015 to one count of money laundering and one count of obstruction and was sentenced
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2017-08-14 06:42:49 | Facebook Covertly Launches A Photo-Sharing App In China (lien direct) | The Chinese market is no doubt a pot of gold for big technology giants with over 700 million internet users, but the Chinese government heavily controls the Internet within its borders through its Golden Shield project – the Great Firewall of China.
The Great Firewall has blocked some 171 out of the world's leading websites, including Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Dropbox, and
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2017-08-05 03:03:32 | Marcus Hutchins (MalwareTech) Gets $30,000 Bail, But Can\'t Leave United States (lien direct) | Marcus Hutchins, the malware analyst who helped stop global Wannacry menace, has reportedly pleaded not guilty to charges of creating and distributing the infamous Kronos banking malware and is set to release on $30,000 bail on Monday.
Hutchins, the 23-year-old who operates under the alias MalwareTech on Twitter, stormed to fame and hailed as a hero over two months ago when he stopped a
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2017-07-26 23:59:31 | Creator of NanoCore RAT Pleads Guilty to Aiding CyberCriminals (lien direct) | A programmer who was arrested in March this year-not because he hacked someone, but because he created and distributed a remote access software that helped cyber criminals-has finally pleaded guilty.
Taylor Huddleston, 26, of Hot Springs, Arkansas, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to federal charges of aiding and abetting computer intrusions for intentionally selling a remote access tool (RAT), called
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2017-07-25 03:07:51 | British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom (lien direct) | An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers.
According to reports in the German press, the British man, who was using online monikers "Peter Parker" and "Spiderman," linked to domains used to launch cyber attacks powered by the notorious Mirai
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2017-07-13 02:16:45 | Researcher Claims Samsung\'s Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs! (lien direct) | A researcher has claimed that Samsung's Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung products is so poorly programmed that it could contain nearly 27,000 programming errors, which could also lead to thousands of vulnerabilities.
Tizen is a Linux-based open-source operating system backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, which has been in development since early 2012 and designed
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2017-07-11 10:01:33 | Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison (lien direct) | 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 computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums.
Alexander Tverdokhlebov was arrested in February, pleaded guilty on March 31 to wire fraud and on Monday, a federal court
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2017-07-03 11:37:08 | UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service (lien direct) | A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites of some of the world's leading businesses.
Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old teenager from Stockport, is accused of helping cyber criminals with his DDoS booter service (DDoS-for-hire service) to flood millions of websites around the world
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2017-06-24 04:09:45 | Microsoft\'s Private Windows 10 Internal Builds and Partial Source Code Leaked Online (lien direct) | A massive archive of Microsoft's top-secret Windows 10 builds, and the source codes for private software has been reportedly leaked online, which could lead to a nasty wave of Windows 10 exploits, journalist at the Reg claims.
The Leaked files – uploaded on BetaArchive website – contains more than 32 terabytes of data, which includes many non-public Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 builds
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2017-06-20 00:57:50 | A Decade Old Unix/Linux/BSD Root Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered (lien direct) | Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems - including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris - which can be exploited by attackers to escalate their privileges to root, potentially leading to a full system takeover.
Dubbed Stack Clash, the vulnerability (CVE-2017-1000364) has been discovered in the way memory was
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2017-06-16 02:00:23 | 25-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to Hacking U.S. Military Satellite Phone System (lien direct) | A British computer hacker who allegedly hacked a United States Department of Defense satellite system in 2014 and accessed the personal information of hundreds of military personnel has pleaded guilty on Thursday.
Sean Caffrey, a 25-year-old resident of Sutton Coldfield in the West Midlands, has admitted to breaking into a US military communications system in June 2014 and stealing usernames
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2017-05-10 01:08:37 | Trump Fires FBI Director Over Clinton Probe, Amid Russia Investigation (lien direct) | President Donald Trump has abruptly fired James Comey, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was leading an investigation into alleged links between Trump and Russia.
The White House announced on Tuesday that Comey was fired on the "clear recommendation" of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, citing the reason that he was no
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2017-03-29 03:47:34 | Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty (lien direct) | A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to face sentencing in August.
Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii Novgorod, Russia, pleaded guilty in a US federal court on Tuesday for his role in the development and maintenance of the infamous Linux botnet
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2017-03-24 01:22:29 | US Senate Just Voted to Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data Without Permission (lien direct) | The ISPs can now sell certain sensitive data like your browsing history without permission, thanks to the US Senate.
The US Senate on Wednesday voted, with 50 Republicans for it and 48 Democrats against, to roll back a set of broadband privacy regulations passed by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) last year when it was under Democratic leadership.
In October, the Federal
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2017-03-23 02:00:11 | Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Developing and Distributing Citadel Trojan (lien direct) | A Russian man accused of developing and distributing the Citadel Banking Trojan, which infected nearly 11 Million computers globally and caused over $500 Million in losses, has finally pleaded guilty to charges of computer fraud.
Mark Vartanyan, 29, who was very well known as "Kolypto," pleaded guilty in an Atlanta courtroom on Monday to charges related to computer fraud and is now
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2017-02-16 09:14:56 | A Simple JavaScript Exploit Bypasses ASLR Protection On 22 CPU Architectures (lien direct) | Security researchers have discovered a chip flaw that could nullify hacking protections for millions of devices regardless of their operating system or application running on them, and the worse - the flaw can not be entirely fixed with any mere software update.
The vulnerability resides in the way the memory management unit (MMU), a component of many CPUs, works and leads to bypass the
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2017-02-02 00:24:11 | Critical WordPress REST API Bug: Prevent Your Blog From Being Hacked! (lien direct) | Last week, WordPress patched three security flaws, but just yesterday the company disclosed about a nasty then-secret zero-day vulnerability that let remote unauthorized hackers modify the content of any post or page within a WordPress site.
The nasty bug resides in Wordpress REST API that would lead to the creation of two new vulnerabilities: Remote privilege escalation and Content injection
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2017-01-14 08:20:17 | Student Faces 10 Years In Prison For Creating And Selling Limitless Keylogger (lien direct) | A 21-year-old former Langley High School student, who won a Programmer of the Year Award in high school, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of developing and selling custom key-logging malware that infected thousands of victims.
Zachary Shames from Virginia pleaded guilty in a federal district court and now faces a maximum penalty of up to 10 years in prison for his past deeds.
Shames was
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2016-12-20 08:39:51 | Hacker Demonstrates How Easy In-flight Entertainment System Can Be Hacked (lien direct) | Next time when you hear an announcement in the flight, “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking…," the chances are that the announcement is coming from a hacker controlling your flight.
Dangerous vulnerabilities in an in-flight entertainment system used by the leading airlines, including Emirates, United, American Airlines, Virgin, and Qatar, could let hackers hijack several
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2016-10-26 07:40:34 | The Hacker News launches Online Deals Store – Get Best Deals & Offers (lien direct) | Hey readers, guess what?
The Hacker News (THN) is about to complete its 6 years as a leading Information Security Channel – attracting over 9 Million readers worldwide – and a trusted source for Hacking, Cyber Security and Infosec News for the enthusiasts, technologists & nerds.
In the special occasion of this year's Anniversary, The Hacker News is excited to announce the launch of its THN
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2016-09-29 11:07:31 | 37-Year-Old \'Syrian Electronic Army\' Hacker Pleads Guilty in US court (lien direct) | One of the FBI's Most Wanted Hackers who was arrested in Germany earlier this year has pleaded guilty to federal charges for his role in a scheme that hacked computers and targeted the US government, foreign governments, and multiple US media outlets.
Peter Romar, 37, pleaded guilty Wednesday in a federal court in Alexandria to felony charges of conspiring to receive extortion proceeds and to
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2016-09-13 06:17:14 | How to Hack Smart Bluetooth Locks and IoT Devices - Check this Out (lien direct) | Bluetooth Low Energy, also known as Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth 4, is the leading protocol designed for connecting IoT devices, medical equipment, smart homes and like most emerging technologies, security is often an afterthought.
As devices become more and more embedded in our daily lives, vulnerabilities have real impact on our digital and physical security.
Enter the
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2016-08-19 02:37:23 | Warning - Bitcoin Users Could Be Targeted by State-Sponsored Hackers (lien direct) | Another day, another bad news for Bitcoin users.
A leading Bitcoin information site is warning users that an upcoming version of the Blockchain consolidation software and Bitcoin wallets could most likely be targeted by "state-sponsored attackers."
Recently, one of the world's most popular cryptocurrency exchanges, Bitfinex, suffered a major hack that resulted in a loss of around $72 Million
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2016-08-14 03:22:43 | Bitcoin Exchange Offers $3.5 Million Reward for Information of Stolen Bitcoins (lien direct) | Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange 'Bitfinex' that lost around $72 Million worth of its customers' Bitcoins last week is now offering a reward of $3.5 Million to anyone who can provide information that leads to the recovery of the stolen Bitcoins.
Bitfinex revealed on August 2 that the cryptocurrency exchange had suffered a major security breach, which resulted in the loss of nearly 120,000 BTC
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