France Telecom Orange Hacked Again, Personal Details of 1.3 Million Customers Stolen

France Telecom Orange Hacked Again, Personal Details of 1.3 Million Customers Stolen

May 07, 2014Mohit Kumar
French leading telecommunications company ' Orange ' hit by second major data breach of its kind in a matter of months. Compan...
Anonymous Hacker Charged with CyberStalking Faces 440 Years in Jail

Anonymous Hacker Charged with CyberStalking Faces 440 Years in Jail

May 01, 2014Mohit Kumar
An alleged member of the famous amorphous Hacktivist group Anonymous is now facing a total of 44 charges after the filing of the latest sup...
New Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776 Affects all Versions of Internet Explorer Browser

New Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776 Affects all Versions of Internet Explorer Browser

April 27, 2014Mohit Kumar
Microsoft confirmed a new Zero Day critical vulnerability in its browser Internet Explorer . Flaw affects all versions of Internet Explorer,...
Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers

Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers

April 25, 2014Mohit Kumar
Reading a 'Note' created by anyone on the Facebook could trick you automatically to do malicious attacks against others unknowingly....
Satellite Communication (SATCOM) Devices Vulnerable to Hackers

Satellite Communication (SATCOM) Devices Vulnerable to Hackers

April 18, 2014Mohit Kumar
The growing threat of cyber-attacks and network hacking has reached the satellite-space sector, posing a growing challenge to the satellite...
German Aerospace Center targeted by Self-Destructing Spyware

German Aerospace Center targeted by Self-Destructing Spyware

April 15, 2014Mohit Kumar
It’s not so far when Germany confirmed its biggest Data theft in the country's history with the usernames and passwords of some 18 milli...
APT Groups Return - Chinese Hackers Resume Cyber Espionage Operations

APT Groups Return - Chinese Hackers Resume Cyber Espionage Operations

April 11, 2014Mohit Kumar
Year back, one of the largest “ Advanced Persistent Threat ” ( APT ) hacking groups received widespread attention from the media and from th...
Philips Smart TVs vulnerable to Screen Hijack and Cookie Theft

Philips Smart TVs vulnerable to Screen Hijack and Cookie Theft

March 29, 2014Mohit Kumar
Previous articles on The Hacker News have highlighted that How Internet of Things (IoT) opens your home to cyber threats. Recently the sec...
Learn How SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) helps you to keep your Network Secure

Learn How SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) helps you to keep your Network Secure

March 15, 2014Mohit Kumar
So, How do you currently monitor your logs and events, including network, servers, databases, applications, your router, firewall or Windows...
AlienVault Unified Security Management: Real-Time Threat Detection Starting on Day 1

AlienVault Unified Security Management: Real-Time Threat Detection Starting on Day 1

March 14, 2014Mohit Kumar
IT Infrastructure of organizations is growing ever more distributed, complex and difficult to manage. To manage such networks, a log managem...
Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

February 25, 2014Mohit Kumar
Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You.  A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected c...
ZeuS Trojan variant Targets Salesforce accounts and SaaS Applications

ZeuS Trojan variant Targets Salesforce accounts and SaaS Applications

February 20, 2014Mohit Kumar
Zeus , a financially aimed Banking Trojan that comes in many different forms and flavors, is capable to steal users' online-banking cred...
Snowden used web crawler tool to access and download 1.7 million Secret NSA Files

Snowden used web crawler tool to access and download 1.7 million Secret NSA Files

February 09, 2014Mohit Kumar
National Security Agency (NSA) – the one that had ruled over the privacy of the entire world from countries to individuals, the one with mas...
MediaWiki Remote Code Execution vulnerability leaves Wikipedia open for Cyber attacks

MediaWiki Remote Code Execution vulnerability leaves Wikipedia open for Cyber attacks

January 30, 2014Mohit Kumar
The Encyclopedia giant WIKIPEDIA has been found vulnerable to remote code execution because of a critical flaw in the MediaWiki software ....
Israeli Defense computer hacked in Spear Phishing Attack

Israeli Defense computer hacked in Spear Phishing Attack

January 27, 2014Mohit Kumar
Hackers broke into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software. Reuters reported Israeli D...
100,000 Refrigerators and other home appliances hacked to perform cyber attack

100,000 Refrigerators and other home appliances hacked to perform cyber attack

January 18, 2014Mohit Kumar
Have you given shed to Zombies in your house? No???? May be you have no idea about it. After Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles, Tablets…....