Snapchat vulnerability opens iPhone users to disabling attack, says researchers

Snapchat has had a rough few months, what with the massive scraping of its users’ information and such. The latest headache for the company comes in the form of a … Continue reading

Yahoo mail hacked: measures being taken

The email systems at Yahoo have been hacked this week and Yahoo has issued a warning to the public on how to make due with the situation. Starting with a … Continue reading

Sneaky “Honey Encryption” Stops Hackers By Drowning Them in Phony Data

Sneaky "Honey Encryption" Stops Hackers By Drowning Them in Phony Data

It seems like no matter how much companies may try to up their defenses, there will always be some industrious young hacker who manages to evade every roadblock in his way. One team of researchers, though, think they may have finally found a way to turn their defense into an attack on the hackers themselves—by spewing fake data at them and sending them drowning.

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The FBI Seized All of TorMail’s Data and Is Using It to Catch Hackers

The FBI Seized All of TorMail's Data and Is Using It to Catch Hackers

If you had any faith left in anonymous email services, now would be the time to let that go. New court documents show that in chasing down associates of Freedom Hosting, the FBI managed to download the entire email database of TorMail. And now it’s using that information to take on the Darknet.

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How I Hacked Snapchat’s Dumb Anti-Robot Security In Less Than 30 Minutes

How I Hacked Snapchat's Dumb Anti-Robot Security In Less Than 30 Minutes

I woke up this morning and saw an article detailing Snapchat’s new verification system designed to help cut back the snap spam that seems to be slowly infiltrating the service.

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Hacker accesses 70,000 Healthcare.gov records, says website is 100% insecure

The Healthcare.gov website has had its fair share of troubles since launch, and one that has been persistent among them is claims of security vulnerabilities. TrustedSec’s CEO David Kennedy has … Continue reading

Hackers Swiped 70,000 Records from Healthcare.gov in Four Minutes (Updated

Hackers Swiped 70,000 Records from Healthcare.gov in Four Minutes (Updated

After the bevy of problems Healthcare.gov encountered in its first few months of life, dumping one more onto the pile shouldn’t phase you all that much, right? Well, not if that hiccup is actually a gaping vulnerability—and one that can grant hackers access to over 70,0000 private records in just four minutes, at that.

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Oh Great, Even Refrigerators Are Hackers Now

Oh Great, Even Refrigerators Are Hackers Now

Ever have that nightmare where your refrigerator comes alive and attacks you? Probably not, but in the era of smart fridges, this is actually a thing that can happen—that is, if we’re talking about cyberattacks.

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Google+ Local hit with thousands of compromised hotel links

Yesterday, news surfaced of an annoying and somewhat unanticipated so-called hijacking of hotel links within Google+ Local accounts by yet-unknown spammers. When clicked, the compromised links took prospective customers to … Continue reading

Banking mobile apps largely vulnerable, reveals IOActive study

Personal banking apps make managing a checking or savings account easy, eschewing the need for a laptop or firing up a browser. Whether they keep your personal data secure is … Continue reading