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Wifiphisher – Fast Automated Phishing Attack Tool for WiFi Networks

Wifiphisher is a security tool that mounts fast automated phishing attacks against WPA networks in order to obtain the secret passphrase. It is a social engineering attack that unlike other methods it...

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UK Spy Agency Hacked Reliance Cables

British intelligence hacked into two major undersea cables owned by Reliance Communications compromising millions of users, including those from the Indian government, reveal the latest scan of...

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Hacking PayPal Accounts With One Click

Yasser H. Ali, an Egyptian security researcher, has discovered three critical vulnerabilities in PayPal website which could be used to take control of customer accounts. Yasser explained in his post...

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WhatsApp – Message Handler Vulnerability Allows to Remotely Crash

A Vulnerability has been discovered in the wildly popular messaging app WhatsApp, which allows anyone to remotely crash WhatsApp just by sending a specially crafted message, two security researchers...

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Now E-Cigarette Can Give You Malware

E-cigarettes may be better for your health than normal ones, but spare a thought for your poor computer – electronic cigarettes have become the latest vector for malicious software, according to online...

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CryptoPHP – Backdoor in Thousands of CMS Plugins and Themes Used to Hijack...

Security researchers have discovered thousands of backdoored plugins and themes for the popular content management systems (CMS) that could be used by attackers to compromise web servers on a large...

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Twitter Vulnerability Allows Hacker to Delete Credit Cards from any Account

At the beginning of this month, just like other social networks, Twitter also started paying individuals for any flaws they uncover on its service with a fee of $140 or more offered per flaw under its...

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A 16-Year Old Invents Device that Converts Breath to Speech

A High-school student Arsh Shah Dilbagi has invented a portable and affordable device that converts breath into speech, helping people suffering from different developmental disabilities like locked-in...

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Outernet – Free Global Wi-Fi Internet Access from Outer Space

The Outernet is a global networking project currently under development by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based non-profit organization. The Outernet’s goal is to...

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Tor to Release Instant Messaging Bundle (TIMB)

The TOR project is about to join the world of secure instant messaging, laying out a roadmap that would see its first code for a new project delivered by the end of March 2014. The first aim of the Tor...

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Google Pwnium 4 Invites Hackers to Attack Chrome OS at CanSecWest

Google holds regular competitions to encourage involvement in improving the security of the Chromium project. Contests like Pwnium helps to better patch specific exploits and issues to make Chromium...

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’123456′ Declared Worst Internet Password of 2013

The 2013 list of worst passwords, influenced by postings from the Adobe breach, demonstrates the importance of not basing passwords on the application or website being accessed. SplashData has...

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Microsoft Remotely Removed Tor Browser Bundle from more than 2 Million Systems

In August 2013, 4 million infected computers woke up and waited instructions from their master. The pathogen was Sefnit, a nasty bit of malware that makes infected computers mine bitcoins. Once the...

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MIT University Website Defaced by Anonymous Hackers in Honor of Aaron Swartz

Last year on January 11, a 26-year-old, young hacker, Reddit co-founder and the digital Activist, Aaron H. Swartz committed suicide. He found dead in his Brooklyn, New York apartment, where he had...

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4096-bit RSA Key Extraction Attack via Acoustic Cryptanalysis

A trio of scientists have verified that results they first presented nearly 10 years ago are in fact valid, proving that they can extract a 4096-bit RSA key from a laptop using an acoustic side-channel...

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EBay Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Demonstrated

A German Security researcher has demonstrated a critical vulnerability on Ebay website. He found a controller which was prone to remote-code-execution due to a type-cast issue in combination with...

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Facebook Data Mining Tool Uncovers Your Life

You know you shouldn’t post potentially damaging data on Facebook, but more often that not, your friends don’t think twice about it, and this can impact you even more than you think. At the Hack In The...

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New Touch ID Hack Allows to Unlock iPhone by Multiple FingerPrints

The Iranian group defeated the very basic phenomenon of an iPhone Fingerprinting scanner, which allows them to unlock an iPhone device with multiple Fingerprints. Apple‘s iPhone 5s, was launched just...

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16-Year Old Arrested Over World’s Biggest Cyber Attack

In March 2013, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack of unprecedented ferocity was launched against the servers of Spamhaus, an international non-profit dedicated to battling spam. The March...

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Android WebView Exploit Allows Hackers to Install Malicious Apps

There’s a vulnerability that affects WebView control in Android applications installed on Android devices running versions older than 4.2. This vulnerability makes a large number of Android...

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