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FBI Has Named Hacker allegedly responsible for The Fappening Leaks

Remember The Fappening incident?

Took place in mid-2014, in the incident, anonymous hackers flooded the Internet with private nude photographs of major celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian, Kate Upton and Kirsten Dunst.

The Fappening was the result of the hack of thousands of Apple’s iCloud accounts, including those belonging to Hollywood actresses, models and major

Next Hacker to Organize Biggest Java Programming Competition In Germany

Great news for Hackers and Bug-hunters who enjoy Programming and playing around with Software.

A worldwide group of like-minded computer programmers is hosting The Next Hacker IPPC event on the 26th and 27th of February in Berlin, Germany, where participants can meet hackers and programmers from around the world while getting an opportunity to participate in one of the major

Casino Sues Cyber Security Company Over Failure to Stop Hackers

IT security firm Trustwave has been sued by a Las Vegas-based casino operator for conducting an allegedly “woefully inadequate” investigation following a network breach of the casino operator’s system.

Affinity Gaming, an operator of 5 casinos in Nevada and 6 elsewhere in the United States, has questioned Trustwave’s investigation for failing to shut down breach that directly resulted in

Apple's Mac OS X Still Open to Malware, Thanks Gatekeeper

Apple Mac Computers are considered to be much safer than Windows computers at keeping out the viruses and malware, but the new Exploit discovered by researchers again proves it indeed quite false.

Last year, The Hacker News reported a deadly simple exploit that completely bypassed one of the core security features in Mac OS X known as Gatekeeper.

Apple released a patch in November, but

Creator of MegalodonHTTP DDoS Botnet Arrested

Last month, the Norway police arrested five hackers accused of running the MegalodonHTTP Remote Access Trojan (RAT).

The arrests came as part of the joint operation between Norway’s Kripos National Criminal Investigation Service and Europol, codenamed “OP Falling sTAR.”

According to the United States security firm, all the five men, aged between 16 and 24 years and located in Romania,

Critical OpenSSH Flaw Leaks Private Crypto Keys to Hackers

A ‘Serious’ security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in OpenSSH – one of the most widely used open-source implementations of the Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol.

The critical vulnerability could be exploited by hackers to force clients to leak their secret private cryptographic keys, potentially exposing users to Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks.

What Causes the Flaw to occur?

How to Hack WiFi Password from Smart Doorbells

The buzz around The Internet of Things (IoT) is growing, and it is growing at a great pace.

Every day the technology industry tries to connect another household object to the Internet. One such internet-connected household device is a Smart Doorbell.

Gone are the days when we have regular doorbells and need to open the door every time the doorbell rings to see who is around.

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Someone Just Leaked Hard-Coded Password Backdoor for Fortinet Firewalls

Are millions of enterprise users, who rely on the next-generation firewalls for protection, actually protected from hackers?

Probably Not.

Just less than a month after an unauthorized backdoor found in Juniper Networks firewalls, an anonymous security researcher has discovered highly suspicious code in FortiOS firewalls from enterprise security vendor Fortinet.

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US Intelligence Chief Hacked by the Teen Who Hacked CIA Director

Nation’s Top Spy Chief Got Hacked!

The same teenage hacker who broke into the AOL email inbox of CIA Director John Brennan last October has now claimed to have broken into personal email and phone accounts of the US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

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Clapper was targeted by the teenage hacker, who called himself Cracka and claimed to be a member of the

'Ridiculous' Bug in Popular Antivirus Allows Hackers to Steal all Your Passwords

If you have installed Trend Micro’s Antivirus on your Windows computer, then Beware.

Your computer can be remotely hijacked, or infected with any malware by even through a website – Thanks to a critical vulnerability in Trend Micro Security Software.

The Popular antivirus maker and security firm Trend Micro has released an emergency patch to fix critical flaws in its anti-virus product