PlayStation's social media accounts hacked by OurMine
Days after taking over the social media accounts of US television network Home Box Office (HBO), infamous hacker group "OurMine" has hit again, this time claiming to have hacked Sony PlayStation's official Twitter and Facebook accounts.
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MAMBA or HDDCryptor Back in India. Confirmed!
Mamba is the nastiest of all ransomware because it encrypts the entire hard drive and not just the files. It hit India back in 2016, and is back in India with a bang! Kaspersky Labs, Trend Micro and other security researchers confirmed the rise of Mamba and Locky, where the havoc was being caused in Brazil and Saudi Arabia earlier in August 2017, but it is now confirmed that both these ransomware are hitting Indian organisations and users in August 2017.
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WhatsApp and user privacy: Your top questions answered.
How secure is your data on WhatsApp? Well, we answer all the top questions related to your privacy on the world’s most popular messaging application.
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Android Banking Trojan now Targeting Users of Famous Taxi Services, Including Uber
The Faketoken trojan places a fake bank page over the app just when a victim is about to do a transaction and then steals the credit card information using the phishing page
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ShadowPad: Attackers hid powerful backdoor in a popular server management software
Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a backdoor planted in a server management software, NetSarang. When activated, the backdoor allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data.
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Google launches anti-phishing feature for Gmail
Google has deployed an anti-phishing feature for Gmail mobile application which will stop useless emails from entering your inbox.
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Has HBO offered to pay hackers $250K as a ‘bug bounty payment’?
HBO reportedly offered to pay $250,000 to those who stole nearly 1.5TB data, including scripts of 'Game of Thrones' (GoT) and other employee information, from the TV network.
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Ransomware Mamba resurfaces, attacks 3 companies in India
Three months after the Wannacry attack, Mamba, another ransomware that encrypts all the data on hard drives on victim computers,has resurfaced in India and attacked at least three Indian companies after spreading across Brazil and Saudi Arabia.
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HBO Hackers Reportedly Threaten to Release Season Finale of Game of Thrones
HBO hackers have reportedly threatened to release the season finale of Game of Thrones, a complete seven days ahead of its air date.After a series of hacks, accidental leaks and social media account takeovers, the malicious hackers are back and this time they are threatening to release the season finale of GOT Season 7.
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HBO to stop playing games as hackers release more episodes
After being blackmailed for weeks, US-based television network HBO has now vowed to stop playing games with the cyber bullies, who late leaked the yet-to-air episodes of five shows which do not include material related to marquee series Game of Thrones (GoT).
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Did 'worst-hit' India under-report WannaCry ransomware attack?
While cyber experts say that India is among the worst-hit nations targeted by WannaCry ransomware, the Narendra Modi government has a different story to narrate.
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Zomato hacker agrees to destroy stolen data
Zomato faced a major security breach after personal data, including email IDs and passwords, of about 17 million accounts were left exposed by the hacker. However, it had confirmed that no financial data were leaked.
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Techies at Work to Shield India from Cyber Attack
A malicious piece of software that blocks access to computers until money is paid, ransomware WannaCry is said to have swamped machines in over 150 countries, including India.
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Bug the trend
Young bounty hunters rake in the moolah by sifting through stacks of code and finding vulnerabilities
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Cryptographer discovers ‘backdoor’ in Whatsapp
The claims of complete security by WhatsApp for its one billion users has been exposed by Tobias Boelter, a cryptographer and security researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
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From A Gurugram Basement, A 22-Year-Old Hacks Bank Site In Three Hours
Five ethical hackers at Bugsbounty were hired to test bank's security.One of them hacked a bank's main router in three hours
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Digital payment providers at great hacking risk, need upgraded security: Experts
With more and more people logging into e-wallets or m-wallets for daily payments, the target for hackers has increased exponentially, experts warn, suggesting that upgraded security is the only way to safeguard millions of first-time users and small and medium businesses from losing their hard-earned money.
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Dramatic Rise in Cyber Frauds:Experts
Even as financial institutions are busy grappling with various challenges thrown up by the government's decision to recall Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes,instances of cyber fraud have gone up in the past few days.
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