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Category: News January 2017

Lloyds Bank Hit with DDoS Attack for Three Days Straight, Reasons Yet Unknown

Posted onJanuary 23, 2017March 17, 2017

Lloyds Bank was hit with a DDoS attack for three days straight as hackers tried to crash the website, managing to cause intermittent outages for customers on the personal banking websites. It seems that it all happened two weeks ago, Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsBanking and Finance, DDoS

China makes VPNs illegal to tighten its Great Firewall

Posted onJanuary 23, 2017March 17, 2017

China is long known for its strict Internet censorship laws through the Great Firewall of China – China’s Golden Shield project that employs a variety of tricks to censor Internet and block access to various foreign websites in the country Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsVPN

Over 199,500 Websites Are Still Vulnerable to Heartbleed OpenSSL Bug

Posted onJanuary 22, 2017March 17, 2017

It’s more than two and half years since the discovery of the critical OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, but the flaw is still alive as it appears that many organizations did not remediate properly to the serious security glitch. It was one Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsMalware

How A Bug Hunter Forced Apple to Completely Remove A Newly Launched Feature

Posted onJanuary 20, 2017March 17, 2017

Recently Apple released a new Feature for iPhone and iPad users, but it was so buggy that the company had no option other than rolling back the feature completely. In November, Apple introduced a new App Store feature, dubbed “Notify” Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsMalware

Hacking the Army

Posted onJanuary 19, 2017March 17, 2017

The hacker prodding a public-facing Army recruitment website in early December stumbled upon a vulnerability, then another, until he found himself suddenly connected to an internal Department of Defense network that should have prompted him for special access credentials. By Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsCyber Security Jobs, Military

Giuliani and top Trump White House officials hacked, passwords leaked

Posted onJanuary 19, 2017March 17, 2017

The Trump Presidency’s new cyber tsar, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has had his passwords leaked online along with a whole host of top officials Trump’s proposed ‘cyber tsar’ and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsGovernment, Hacking

Billion-Dollar Hacker Gang Now Using Google Services to Control Its Banking Malware

Posted onJanuary 19, 2017March 17, 2017

Carbanak – One of the most successful cybercriminal gangs ever that’s known for the theft of one billion dollars from over 100 banks across 30 countries back in 2015 – is back with a BANG! The Carbanak cyber gang has Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsHacking, Malware

NATO Says Hackers Attack the Alliance 500 Times Each Month

Posted onJanuary 19, 2017March 17, 2017

NATO has become a target for more hackers worldwide, a spokesperson for the military alliance said this week, revealing that an average of 500 attacks are recorded every month. The organization recorded an increase of approximately 60 percent in the Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsCyber Attack, Hacking, Intergovernmental

Old-School DDoS Attack on White House Site Planned on Trump’s Inauguration Day

Posted onJanuary 18, 2017March 17, 2017

A new online campaign that’s making the rounds these days calls for users to “occupy whitehouse.gov on inauguration day” as a form of protest against Donald Trump’s presidency. Published on Protester.io, the protest is basically a call for an old-school Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017, Front pageTagsDDoS, Government

Mirai botnet creator unmasked as DDOS protection developer tempted by the dark side

Posted onJanuary 18, 2017March 17, 2017

Mirai, the botnet that subverted thousands of poorly secured internet of things devices and set them to work on denial of service attacks, has been revealed to be the creation of a young developer who found that the black hat Read More …

CategoriesNews January 2017TagsCyber Attack, DDoS

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