San Francisco: Twitter has warned of “unusual activity” from state-sponsored actors based in China and Saudi Arabia after it found a bug that could have revealed the country code of users’ phone numbers or if their account was locked. The revelation led to Twitter stock dropping nearly 7 per cent[Read More…]
Tag: Hackers
Hackers breach govt health insurance system in US
San Francisco: Hackers have got access to personal data belonging to 75,000 people in a breach of government health insurance system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans in the US, the media reported. The hacked system was connected to the Healthcare.gov website,[Read More…]
Hackers broke into 50 mn users’ accounts, says Facebook
San Francisco: In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook on Friday admitted hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their “access tokens” or digital keys. This allowed them to steal Facebook access tokens which they could then use to take over people’s accounts, Facebook[Read More…]
Hackers bank-loot Rs 94 crore in ‘most liveable Pune’
While Pune was recently entitled ‘most liveable city’ under Ease of Living Index, city’s Cosmos Bank, hailed as one of the oldest cooperative banks in India, was attacked and transactions of nearly 94.42 crore have been carried out in bank accounts outside India. The officials of the cooperative bank located in[Read More…]
Tech alert! Hackers may target your ‘all-in-one’ printers
Researchers from a Nasdaq-listed Israeli security company have warned of vulnerabilities likely to be exploited by hackers on all-in-one printers with fax functionality. The security experts from Check Point Software Technologies, which has a main office in the California, said there are serious security flaws in all-in-one printers connected to[Read More…]
Smartphone sensors can give hackers clues to your PIN number
Instruments in smartphones such as the accelerometer, gyroscope and proximity sensors represent a potential security vulnerability as researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that data from these sensors could be used by hackers to guess the security PIN and unlock it. Using a combination of information gathered from six[Read More…]
HBO hackers threaten to leak more data of Game of Thrones
The hackers behind the recent HBO breach earlier this week, who claim to have leaked unaired episodes of the network’s shows, including the highly popular fantasy drama Game Of Thrones, have now threatened to release additional content from the hack on the coming Sunday. In an automated email reply sent to varied sites,[Read More…]
Disney to pay huge ransom for stolen new Pirates of the Caribbean movie?
In an unpleasant episode, Disney Chief Bob Iger said, the hackers are claiming to have an access to one of the company’s unreleased films and are demanding “huge” ransom. However, he did not disclose which film had been stolen. He had said that the company would not be giving in[Read More…]
We are a ‘bunch of computer g33kz addicted to crime and drugz’: Legion
Legion, an unknown hacker group responsible for twitter accounting of prominent persons such as Rahul Gandhi, Ravish Kumar, Vijay Mallya, claimed to have the access of sansad.nic.in a domain which is largely used by the government employees in India. “Next is a dump of sansad.nic.in emails Which is – quite big It[Read More…]
Debit / Credit card can be hacked in less than 6 seconds: Research
It may take as little as six seconds for hackers to guess your credit or debit card number, expiry date and security code, say scientists who were able to circumvent all security features meant to protect online payments from fraud. Exposing the flaws in the VISA payment system, researchers from[Read More…]