Tag Archives: website hacking

Yahoo Hacked Once Again! Quietly Warns Affected Users About New Attack

Has Yahoo rebuilt your trust again?

If yes, then you need to think once again, as the company is warning its users of another hack.

Last year, Yahoo admitted two of the largest data breaches on record. One of which that took place in 2013 disclosed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion Yahoo user accounts.

Well, it’s happened yet again.
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Yahoo sent out another

Polish Banks Hacked using Malware Planted on their own Government Site

In what considered to be the largest system hack in the country’s history and a massive attack on the financial sector, several banks in Poland have been infected with malware.

What’s surprising? The source of the malware infection is their own financial regulator, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) — which, ironically, is meant to keep an eye out for the safety and security of

Critical WordPress REST API Bug: Prevent Your Blog From Being Hacked!

Last week, WordPress patched three security flaws, but just yesterday the company disclosed about a nasty then-secret zero-day vulnerability that let remote unauthorized hackers modify the content of any post or page within a WordPress site.

The nasty bug resides in WordPress REST API that would lead to the creation of two new vulnerabilities: Remote privilege escalation and Content injection

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

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 of the biggest flaws in the Internet’s history that affected the core security of as many as two-thirds of the world’s servers i.e. half a million servers at

Donald Trump appoints a CyberSecurity Advisor Whose Own Site is Damn Vulnerable

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani has been appointed as a cyber security advisor for the President-elect Donald Trump, but it appears that he never actually checked the security defenses of his own company’s website.

Giuliani is going to head a new Cybersecurity Working group for the President-elect, and “will be sharing his expertise and insight as a trusted friend concerning

Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

The company that sells digital forensics and mobile hacking tools to others has itself been hacked.

Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investigations, has had 900 GB of its data stolen by an unknown hacker.

But the hacker has not yet publicly released anything from the stolen data

FBI Hacked, Again! Hacker Leaks Data After Agency Failed to Patch Its Site

It seems like the FBI has been hacked, once again!

A hacker, using Twitter handle CyberZeist, has claimed to have hacked the FBI’s website (fbi.gov) and leaked personal account information of several FBI agents publically.

CyberZeist had initially exposed the flaw on 22 December, giving the FBI time to patch the vulnerability in its website’s code before making the data public.

The hacker

Critical PHPMailer Flaw leaves Millions of Websites Vulnerable to Remote Exploit

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in PHPMailer, which is one of the most popular open source PHP libraries to send emails used by more than 9 Million users worldwide.

Millions of PHP websites and popular open source web applications, including WordPress, Drupal, 1CRM, SugarCRM, Yii, and Joomla comes with PHPMailer library for sending emails using a variety of methods, including

Websites of Indian Embassy in 7 Countries Hacked; Database Leaked Online

Indian embassy websites in seven different countries have been hacked, and attackers have leaked personal data, including full name, residential address, email address, passport number and phone number, of Indian citizens living abroad.

This incident is extremely worrying because it involves diplomatic personnel working in the embassies that have always been a favorite target of

Shadow Brokers reveals list of Servers Hacked by the NSA

The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked a portion of the NSA’s hacking tools and exploits, is back with a Bang!

The Shadow Brokers published more files today, and this time the group dumped a list of foreign servers allegedly compromised by the NSA-linked hacking unit, Equation Group, in various countries to expand its espionage operations.