If you’ve been debating about changing your e-mail or social networking account password, now would be a great time to make the switch. According to the Wisconsin-based firm called Hold Security, a Russian cyber-crime ring has recently acquired about 1.2 billion usernames and passwords from over 420,000 websites all around the globe. The identities of the affected websites remain unknown so…
Truecaller, the global phone directory application, had its servers hacked recently by a hacker group – the Syrian Electronic Army. The group apparently gained access to 7 databases belonging to Truecaller, including one that contained over 450 GB of data. This puts data of over a million users at risk. Truecaller allows users to look…
Hacker group rivalries are intensifying. YourAnonNews (YAN), a Twitter account and a Tumblr blog that supports hacker group Anonymous, known for their infamous high profile hacks, itself appeared to be hacked by another hacker group known as the Rustle League. YourAnonNews is a group account, which means members of a group can simultaneously tweet to…
While North Korea was busy positioning its nuclear weapons at the USA, its Facebook and Twitter accounts were hacked by hacker group Anonymous on the 3rd April. Thousands of user data has been claimed to be compromised. Uriminzokkiri (Korean for “Our Nation”), North Korean’s government news agency had its website Uriminzokkiri.com down, possibly by DDOS…
Once upon a time we had WEP encryption, and all was good, but then all became not good, because WEP was weak. So now we have WPA, and all is good again …Well, mostly. WEP Encryptions Obsolete WEP encryption’s main failing is that it’s possible to obtain the password just by capturing enough packets as…