This is out of the ordinary, it is common for cyber-criminals to try stolen credit-cards on charity websites. But what could be the motive behind sending bitcons to charities!?
2020-10-15
Restarting my blog
Over the last few years, I realized that most of my blog's followers were looking at my content via my LinkedIn profile. Hence, I stopped using the Blogger platform and moved all my content over to LinkedIn. This is the reason there are no posts from me after July 2017. So, after a long hiatus, I put the life back in my Blogger platform.
From today, I wish to change this. I will try and post all my content on both these platforms: LinkedIn and Blogger. This will help keep my content at one central place (here) and the mirror on Linkedin (or even Twitter) will help my readers still be able to find my content.
My LinkedIn profile is here.
2017-07-22
Police Takeover of Darknet Markets
Seems like the underground markets are in serious trouble.
The users of AlphaBay flocked started migrating over to the Hansa Market, which was already under the control of the Dutch police!
An interesting police intereview
There are rumors that Dream Market may also already be under the police control.
a Canadian citizen living in Thailand was arrested in that country and is believed to have committed suicide while in custody after international authorities — including police here — worked to close the AlphaBay criminal marketplace on the Dark WebAlphaBay's takeover
The users of AlphaBay flocked started migrating over to the Hansa Market, which was already under the control of the Dutch police!
An interesting police intereview
There are rumors that Dream Market may also already be under the police control.
2017-06-14
FBI arrests NSA Data Leaker
... unfortunately, it seems like Winner was not aware of the fact "that most new printers print nearly invisibly yellow dots that track down exactly when and where documents, any document, is printed ...Story
2017-05-18
2017-05-15
WannaCry Ransomware
- A good article detailing what this is about.
- The "hero" who reserved the domain name to halt the spread.
- Variations start emerging, and more expected soon.
- Suspected links to North Korea
- A beginners guide to what this is all about
- Profits Finally Hit $100,000
- Can be decrypted -- well sort of - in some conditions
2017-04-10
2017-02-23
SHA1 Broken (shattered)!
SHA1 cryptography hash has finally been broken. In all fairness it was declared obsolete a while back. But it is still very interesting to see a theoretical attack live in action.
2016-11-30
Free Rides at San Francisco Metro
27-Nov-2016:
A hacker deployed ransomware making the metro system un-usable, and asked for $73000..!
30-Nov-2016:
The hacker gets hacked. Reminder to change those password recovery questions.
A hacker deployed ransomware making the metro system un-usable, and asked for $73000..!
30-Nov-2016:
The hacker gets hacked. Reminder to change those password recovery questions.
2016-11-14
2016-10-20
3.2 million debit cards compromised in India
Hackers allegedly used malware to compromise the Hitachi Payment Services platform — which is used to power country's ATM, point-of-sale (PoS) machines and other financial transactions — and stole details of 3.2 Million debit cards!
Amazing
Amazing
2016-10-12
Distressed Yahoo!
Yahoo is a facing a lot of heat at the moment, with some recent events.
First, 500 million user accounts was stolen in 2014, and got dumped online recently. Then, there is news that Yahoo complied with a secret government order to search the incoming emails of all of its users. This secret initiative was not even known to its internal security team.
First, 500 million user accounts was stolen in 2014, and got dumped online recently. Then, there is news that Yahoo complied with a secret government order to search the incoming emails of all of its users. This secret initiative was not even known to its internal security team.
Verizon, who has been in talks to acquire Yahoo is now seeking a $1 Billion price cut. Hence, the timing of these revelations couldn't have come at a worse time for Yahoo.
To make matters worse, to avoid users leaving its platform, Yahoo has disabled email-forwarding. This is totally in bad faith, which will only frustrate it's users.
Update 15-Dec-2016:
Yahoo says an additional 1 Billion users were impacted. This is insane!
More details from Krebs.
Update 14-Jun-2017:
The Verizon deal finally goes thru, and Yahoo's CEO resigns.
Update 04-Oct-2017:
Every single Yahoo account was hacked - 3 billion in all - link
Update 15-Dec-2016:
Yahoo says an additional 1 Billion users were impacted. This is insane!
More details from Krebs.
Update 14-Jun-2017:
The Verizon deal finally goes thru, and Yahoo's CEO resigns.
Update 04-Oct-2017:
Every single Yahoo account was hacked - 3 billion in all - link
2016-09-10
Israeli Online Attack Service
A super investigation (and DOXing) done by Brian Krebs. A look at how a DDoS for hire service operates and launders money! Link
Update 13-Sep-2106:
Krebs gets DDoS-ed for this article, by the same botnet company
Update 13-Sep-2106:
Krebs gets DDoS-ed for this article, by the same botnet company
2016-09-08
2016-08-21
China Launches 'Hack-Proof' Satellite
QUESS will send messages to ground stations using entangled photons, Xinhua reported. Such a system is theoretically impossible to hack. In addition, any attempts to eavesdrop would be picked up via an induced change in the photons' state.
Story here
2016-08-13
Car Thieves Can Unlock 100 Million Volkswagens With A Simple Wireless Hack
Next time when you leave your car in a parking lot, make sure you don't leave your valuables in it, especially if it's a Volkswagen. What's more worrisome?
Windows Secure Boot: Insecure by design and mostly likely can't be fixed
Encryption backdoors don’t work; the latest proof of that was discovered by security researchers Slipstream and MY123. This time, the security flub-up involves “golden keys” which can unlock Windows devices allegedly protected by Secure Boot.
2016-08-09
Fake LinkedIn Profiles
I am not sure why but I receive way too many connection requests from fake profiles. Take for instance the following request, seemingly coming from a "Gabriella Kimber" in Germany, who in fact owns a premium account with LinkedIn, and has 414 connections (at the time of writing this post).
A simple Google photo search reveals, this photo has been taken as is from the G+ profile (link) of Lika Roman, who is actually Miss Ukraine 2007 (wikipedia).
I am sure a pretty woman's photograph is put up to attract attention, but still what's their end goal here? What do they aim to gain from such fake accounts?
A simple Google photo search reveals, this photo has been taken as is from the G+ profile (link) of Lika Roman, who is actually Miss Ukraine 2007 (wikipedia).
I am sure a pretty woman's photograph is put up to attract attention, but still what's their end goal here? What do they aim to gain from such fake accounts?
2016-08-08
KickassTorrents Busted
KAT counts more than 50 million unique monthly visitors and is estimated to be the 68th most frequently visited website on the internetStory
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