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Sony PSN hit by new exploit

Yesterday Nyleveia revealed a new vulnerability in Sony PSN password reset page. The hack involves PSN web-based password reset page, where it’s said anyone can change someone else’s password using their PSN account email and date of birth (details possibly collected by hackers in April breach). Eurogamer’s also claiming to have seen actual video footage [...]

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‘Enable Dislike Button’ scam on Facebook

Whenever I hated a status message or a shared link on Facebook, I said to myself – “I wish this thing had a dislike button to express my distress”.. This must have come to your mind also, specially after disliking some video on Youtube. Well this urge of disliking posts on FB is what hackers [...]

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Facebook Scam:WTF I can’t believe you’re in this vid

If you happen to get a new wall post from your friend saying “WTF <yourname> I can’t believe you’re in this vid” or “ROFL <yourname> i cant believe youre tagged in this video” Its a new scam spreading on Facebook. Don’t open or click on this link else it will be posted to all your [...]

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CCAvenue.com Payment Gateway Hacked

CCAvenue.com, South Asia’s biggest Payment Gateway was attacked by ahacker (who used a call sign name of d3hydr8) using a very silly vulnerability SQLInjection. As per Hacker Regiment, dehydr8 reported the issue to them and they have published the complete database structure as well as a sample records (thank’s for hiding the password field). A bad thing [...]

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Sony PlayStation Network Breached

After a week’s shut down of PlayStation Network (PSN); Sony has publicly admitted that its 77 million users data has been compromised which includes names addresses date of birth email passwords or possibly users credit card details. If you are a PSN user check your account statement, monitor credit reports and if you still have [...]

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Iran is getting paranoid over new cyber-attack ‘Stars’

After discovering an attack on its SCADA systems willing to take down their nuclear facility, Iran is probably getting paranoid over the whole malware cosmos. It seems that every other abnormal behavior on Iran’s critical facility is viewed by them as an attack or a threat to their nuclear reactors. Yesterday Iran’s Mehr News Agency [...]

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Website of IIM Bangalore Hacked!

It’s been almost a week that IIM Bangalore‘s official website was attacked by companies which sell viagra. The parent site http://www.iimb.ernet.in/ is back online now but the malicious content was seen in Google cache. This was reported on pluggdin too.

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wordpress.com attacked, root level break-in

WordPress.com faced a root level break-in on there multiple servers today. As per them, the investigation is on and they aren’t sure what’s the cause of this attack. Matt himself wrote on the blog- We have been diligently reviewing logs and records about the break-in to determine the extent of the information exposed, and re-securing [...]

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Beware of Twilight Game Scam on Facebook

If you’ve been tagged in a friend’s photo album on Facebook or have seen a link promoting a Twilight: Breaking Dawn game, be careful. It is likely a scam designed to spread on Facebook and grab your personal data. After clicking on the link, you’ll be invited to start playing the game. For those who [...]

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Barracuda Networks suffers breach

California based Security Company, Barracuda Networks experienced a breach by a Malaysian group known as HMSec. Details of its raid, including database schemas, email addresses, and hashed passwords, after executing an SQL Injection attack on the Barracuda domain were also published by HMSec. “The Barracuda Web Application Firewall in front of the Barracuda Networks [...]