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San Francisco Metro System Hacked with Ransomware – Resulting in Free Rides
Nothing is immune to being hacked when hackers are motivated.
The same proved by hackers on Friday, when more than 2,000 computer systems at San...
Egypt : Russian expand industrial zone in Suez
The area of the Russian industrial park on the Suez Canal is to be expanded from 80 to 2,000 hectares (20 sq. km.), said...
Israeli Firm Says It Can Crack Any Locked Smartphone
For the last few months, Israeli spy firms have making some strange claims such as Ability says that their “Unlimited Interception System” can trace...
Kaspersky’s : Made an Operating System – Hack-proof
Kaspersky is a security software developer and cyber security firm that is trusted by people globally. So, when the company states that it has...
Syrian Jihadists Flaunt SA-7 Strela-2 missiles – Portable Anti-Aircraft Missiles
Members of the Syrian terrorist group Ansar al-Islam Front have been seen in a recent video flaunting a store of shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles, the...
Tesla Model S can be located, unlocked, stolen by manipulating Tesla apps
The IT security researchers from Norway-based firm Promon have discovered a critical issue in the Tesla smartphone app on Android and iOS that allow an...
European Commission Servers Offline After Massive DDoS Attack
The European Commission servers were forced to go offline for hours on Thursday after suffering a series of large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
The Commission...
The First Ransomware to Exploit Telegram Cracked and Decryptor Published
A security researcher whose name is Nathan Scott managed to break the encryption model employed by the Telecrypt ransomware.
The unusual characteristic that made this virus to stand out was the server-client connection method. This time ransomware creators...
NTP DoS Exploit Released — Update Your Servers to Patch 10 Flaws
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical vulnerability in the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) has been publically released that could allow anyone to...
Your Headphones Can Spy On You — Even If You Have Disabled Microphone
Have you considered the possibility that someone could be watching you through your webcam?
Or Listening to all your conversations through your laptop’s microphone?
Even a...
Modern alchemy: Russian scientists discover how to extract gold from coal
Researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Far East branch say they are building a facility to make gold out of coal.
Although the science...
$55 surveillance camera hacked by Mirai botnet within 98 seconds
The Internet of Things has become more of a joke lately because of the never ending styles of exploitation that these poor devices are...
Bizarre 5 second video can crash any iPhone
The video is a seemingly harmless mp4 file showing what appears to be a very quick magic trick.
Phones are reported to continue working fine...
Scammers Using Images on Facebook Messenger to Drop Locky Ransomware
Beware of Facebook Messenger Leading to Locky Malware
Facebook Messenger has become a favorite target of cyber-criminals lately since the social network’s messenger service is...
Ask Toolbar Update Feature Hacked to Drop Malware
The infamous Ask Toolbar is back in the news again.
In the past, it received backlash from security firms for pushing third-party offers to users...
