In the latest episode of the My First Hack series, Andrew Tierney—better known as Cybergibbons—tells the story of the time he discovered he could use his telephone to control his school’s heating system.
Apple’s latest gadget, the AirTag, has been hacked for the first time within two weeks of its launch in April 2021. A security researcher has been able to hack the accessory
US intelligence is reportedly convinced that the Chaos iPhone remote takeover exploit was used against the minority ethnic group before Apple could patch.
This new WhatsApp bug could have allowed attackers to hack into your phone remotely.
The hacking spree targeting underground marketplaces has claimed another victim as a database from card shop Swarmshop emerged on another forum. According to Group-IB, the Swarmshop dump includes details from 623,036 payment cards issued by banks in the U.S., Canada, U.K., China, Singapore, France, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico.
The hack exposed feeds showing the insides of offices, hospitals and businesses, including Tesla.
Multiple exploit developers tell Motherboard an upcoming change in iOS could make zero-click exploits harder to pull off.
SINGAPORE - The personal data of some 129,000 Singtel customers were extracted by hackers during the recent breach of a third-party file sharing system used by the telco.
Technical analyses by Citizen Lab and Motherboard found links between a fake version of WhatsApp and Cy4Gate, an Italian surveillance firm that works with cops and intelligence agencies.
FireEye, a top-end cybersecurity firm that works to protect government and corporate systems alike, itself announced on Tuesday it was the target of what it described as hackers from "a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities," with the hackers stealing FireEye's own offensive tools which could be used for future hacking operations.
It sounds like straight out of a science fiction novel or a movie but researchers have found ways to use your robot vacuum cleaner to spy on your private conversations. Computer scientists over at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have demonstrated that it’s possible by using the built-in Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) sensor in these vacuum cleaners.
Cybercriminals are sending malicious links to hundreds of thousands of users via Google Drive notifications. Because they are sent via Google Drive, the notifications come from Google’s no-reply email address, making them appear more legitimate.
SINGAPORE - The personal information of 1.1 million RedMart user accounts was stolen from a customer database and put up for sale on an online forum. A spokesman from e-commerce giant Lazada, which owns e-grocer Redmart, confirmed the data breach on Friday (Oct 30) and said that the personal information stolen included names, phone numbers, e-mail, mailing addresses, encrypted passwords and partial credit card numbers.
Multiple chicken diners said their usernames and passwords were stolen and the accounts used to place high-volume orders.
Trump’s weak Twitter password and lack of basic two-factor authentication protections made it shockingly simple to hack his account, Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers reported.
Chrome version 86.0.4240.111 released to patch several security high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability.
Pharma giant Pfizer has leaked the private medical data of prescription-drug users in the U.S. for months or even years, thanks to an unprotected Google Cloud storage bucket. The exposed data includes phone-call transcripts and personally-identifiable information (PII), according to vpnMentor’s cybersecurity research team. The victims include people using pharmaceuticals like Lyrica, smoking-cessation aid Chantix, Viagra, menopause drug Premarin, and cancer treatments such as Aromasin, Depo-Medrol and Ibrance.
A ransomware gang that just emerged this month dubbed Egregor claims to have hacked the source code to the upcoming gaming release, Watch Dogs: Legion.
U.S. Bookstore giant Barnes & Noble has disclosed that they were victims of a cyberattack that may have exposed customers' data.
Too funny not to be shared! A security flaw in a hi-tech chastity belt for men made it possible for hackers to remotely lock all the devices in use simultaneously.
