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Category: News February 2017

Anonymous Hacker took down over 10,000 Dark Web Sites; Leaked User Database

Posted onFebruary 5, 2017March 18, 2017

Dark Web is right now going through a very rough time. Just two days ago, a hacker group affiliated with Anonymous broke into the servers of Freedom Hosting II and took down more than 10,000 Tor-based .onion dark websites with Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsHacking, Privacy

Windows SMB Zero-Day Exploit Released in the Wild after Microsoft delayed the Patch

Posted onFebruary 5, 2017July 14, 2018

Last weekend a security researcher publically disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Server editions after Microsoft failed to patch it in the past three months. The zero-day memory corruption flaw resides in the implementation of the Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsZero-Day

Popular hacker warkit Metasploit now hacks hardware and cars

Posted onFebruary 3, 2017March 18, 2017

Popular offensive hacking toolkit Metasploit now works on hardware, including cars, after a major update to the 13-year old platform. The free-or-paid modular hacking machine now sports plenty of CVE-specific exploitation components that security professionals have long-used for penetration tests Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsAutomotive, Hacking

iOS Cracking Tools Allegedly Stolen from Cellebrite Get Dumped Online by Hackers

Posted onFebruary 3, 2017March 18, 2017

We may finally have the answer to one of the big mysteries of 2016 – how did Cellebrite manage to help the FBI break into the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. The answer seems to be repurposing other existing cracking tools Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsHacking, Telecommunications

Security firms ‘overstate hackers’ abilities to boost sales’

Posted onFebruary 3, 2017March 18, 2017

Computer security companies have been accused of “massively” exaggerating the abilities of malicious hackers. Dr Ian Levy, technical director of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, made the accusation in a speech. He said the firms played up hackers’ abilities Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsHacking, United Kingdom

ENISA report on cyber security information sharing in the energy sector

Posted onFebruary 3, 2017March 18, 2017

The purpose of this report is to understand and learn the development of CSIRTs, ISACs, as well as relevant initiatives on information sharing on cyber security incidents in the energy sector by focusing on the subsectors identified in the NIS Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsInformation Sharing

Incident Response Plans: A Comparison of US Law, EU Law and Soon-To-Be EU Law

Posted onFebruary 3, 2017July 14, 2018

The best way to handle any emergency is to be prepared. When it comes to data breaches, incident response plans are the first step organizations take to prepare. In the United States, incident response plans are commonplace. Since 2005, the Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsEU, Incident Response, Law, USA

Britain could carry out cyber attacks to defend itself against Russia

Posted onFebruary 2, 2017March 18, 2017

Britain could carry out offensive cyber attacks to tackle high-tech Russian subversion, the Defence Secretary has suggested. Sir Michael Fallon said the UK and its Nato allies must now compete on the cyber battlefield as much as they do in Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsCyber Attack, Russia, United Kingdom

Google mistakes the entire NHS for massive cyber-attacking botnet

Posted onFebruary 1, 2017December 23, 2020

Google is blocking access to the entire NHS network, mistaking the amount of traffic it is currently receiving as a cyber attack. An email from an NHS trust’s IT department seen by The Register confirmed that the US search giant Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsCyber Attack, Healthcare, Preparedness and Prevention

Pentagon Servers Flawed, Easy to Hack

Posted onFebruary 1, 2017July 14, 2018

The U.S. Department of Defense could be at risk of being attacked by hackers quite easily, one security researcher warns. According to ZDNet, who cites Dan Tentler, founder of cybersecurity firm Phobos Group, several misconfigured servers run by the DoD Read More …

CategoriesNews February 2017TagsGovernment, Hacking, USA

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