Here you will find all the articles with the tag: hack.
With only a few weeks to go before the elections, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that the country's three largest political parties have been hacked. This is a hack from a party that probably works on behalf of a government, although it is not certain which country and with w... Read more
5 years ago
Nest, a subsidiary of Google, forces various users to reset their passwords. Last Friday The Verge was the first to report that Nest has started to force people to reset their passwords. At first, Nest kindly asked customers whose account might have been hacked to reset their passwords. However, it... Read more
5 years ago
A new batch of databases has been discovered on the dark web that is full of details of hacked accounts. It concerns eight databases that were discovered last Sunday and collectively contain the data of no less than 93 million hacked accounts. It is also the third batch of this particular hacker, wh... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers successfully use a two-year-old vulnerability in a software package of IT support companies to gain a foothold in networks. In this way, hackers can place the GandCrab-ransomware on the workstations of those IT supporters' customers. A report on Reddit, which was later confirmed by the cyber... Read more
5 years ago
Pictures of the users of the gay dating app Jack'd have appeared online. That's because the developers set up their Amazon Web Services instance incorrectly. As a result, private images, including sensitive images, were placed on the Internet. Jackd is a gay dating app that connects gay men from all... Read more
5 years ago
Hackers have developed a new backdoor trojan that can run on Linux systems. The malware is called SpeakUp and currently focuses mainly on Linux servers located in China. The hackers behind this series of attacks use the ThinkPHP framework to infect servers. Once the trojan gets a foothold in one of ... Read more
5 years ago
Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers found an account that the Kremlin used to grant itself access to the servers of local and foreign companies operating in Russia. The account was found in thousands of MongoDB databases that appeared to be accessible online without a password. Gevers spoke to t... Read more
5 years ago
An ex-employee hacked into the popular WordPress WPML plug-in last weekend and warned all end-users that the tool in question had multiple security holes. The hack has now been undone. Last weekend, the ex-employee gained access to the supplier's customer base for the popular plug-in for translating... Read more
5 years ago
Barracuda Networks introduces Forensics and Incident Response for customers who use Barracuda Total Email Protection. The solution provides companies with an automated response to incidents, so that they can quickly and easily combat attacks that take place via e-mail. In this way, organisations can... Read more
5 years ago
Security researchers have discovered that apparently legitimate BBC News websites are being misused by scammers to mince bitcoin. The scam was discovered in the first week of January, reports The Next Web. Scammers created an email that seemed to be legitimate, containing a button to display the mes... Read more
5 years ago
