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November 2016
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/30
Transit Stations at San Francisco become Victim of Hack
The fearful hack, which was widely apprehended, eventually took place in the Silicon Valley when the system of one prominent rapid transit was
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/30
Navy says Personal Data of more than 134,000 Sailors was Hacked
The Navy says on Wednesday that personal data of 134,386 present as well as ex-sailors of U.S. Navy was compromised.
It was not known
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/29
Researchers’ Attack Code Circumvents Defense Mechanisms on Linux, Leaving Machines Susceptible
For any Linux administrator it may possibly be in his knowledge that despite him having all the patches up-to-date for his Linux systems, still
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/29
DoD Invites Lawful Hacking of .Mil Domains, Subject to Rules
One fresh military-wide policy formulated to make reports while rectify security flaws enables any kind of hacker seeking towards proving his courage
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/29
Anonymous Hackers Want McAfee as Security Adviser of Trump, Call for Demonstration
Anonymous has announced to hold a demonstration for the McAfee on 5th December in New York City Trump Tower, asking supporters to carry V for the
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/28
USA, Russia Seek Deportation of Russian Hacker from Czechoslovakia
According to Tereza Schejbalova, Spokeswoman of Justice Ministry of the Czechoslovakia government, after USA, Russia recently approached the Czech
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/28
Researchers Design Malware to make a PC Perpetual Audio Tapping Device
Gizmodo reports of a new malware that security researchers from Israel's Ben Gurion University have created to make the headphones work like one
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/28
Customers of Deliveroo get Hacked, Become Hungry and Pay the Bill
Deliveroo was launched in the year 2013. It is enjoying the success as new player of takeway industry. One can order from the local restaurants with
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/25
Human Rights Foundation Site Breached, Numerous Account Credentials Leaked
CyberZeist along with Kapustkiy used an SQL injection to hack into the Hungarian Human Rights Foundation website. Consequently, the hackers were able
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/25
Cobalt Hackers Steal Cash from ATMs across 14 Countries
Cobalt, name of a hackers' gang is understood to have pounced on ATMs in several countries across Europe using malware that embezzled with the
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/24
Office Depot Stops PC Health Checks During False Claims of Infection
Office Depot along with OfficeMax, sister retailer of Office Depot, stopped using the technically suspicious piece of the malware-scanning software
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/24
World’s Most Popular Twitter Accounts Breached While They Posted Ads Pointing to Spam Website
Several Twitter accounts of great people within entertainment, media along with other fields seemingly got hacked recently. Those accounts posted
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/24
Malware Served Through Innocuous-Appearing Image Files on Facebook
Security researcher Bart Blaze has just detected one fresh piece of malware disseminating on Facebook, piggy backing on innocuous-appearing image
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/23
WhatsApp Users Spammed of Video Calling Web-Link
On November 15, WhatsApp introduced a new utility called 'video calling' which people were keenly waiting for. But at the same time, unfortunately,
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/23
Three Mobile of UK Encounters Hack, Endangering Client Data
A major phone company of UK -Three Mobile has reportedly encountered hackers' attack on its PCs which potentially endangered the private information
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/23
EU Agencies and Romania Crack a Gang of Cybercrime
Officials said that the Romanian police with help from the European law enforcement agencies have cracked a gang of computer fraud suspected for
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/22
Teenage Hacker of TalkTalk Pleads Guilty as Firm Reveals Jump of 22mPound in Profit
Chief executive of TalkTalk was blackmailed when a boy, aged 17, boasted regarding hacking the TalkTalk website online, a court heard.
The
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/22
Spyware by Chinese Company Discovered on Over 700m Android Smart-Phones
A security researchers' team based in Virginia has discovered hidden software in over 700m Android smart-phones, a few operated in USA, which
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/22
New PoisonTap Device Creates Backdoor On Idle PC and Router within Half Minute
A computer that's locked but not shutdown and kept idle could enable a hacker in just 30 seconds use one tiny $5 Raspberry Pi Zero containing devious
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/21
Sony Dismisses Hack into its Playstation, Points to Other Potential Causes
During the last forty eight hours, over a hundred members of Sony's PlayStation complained to the company through one of many Twitter accounts it
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/21
How E-Mail Server Problems Occur when All Recipients of Spam Reply
An unfortunate IT worker sending one 'test' message into the e-mail accounts of 1.2m people unintentionally crippled the electronic mail server of
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/18
Researchers Demonstrate Bricking Assault Across City through IoT Worm
Security researchers from Dalhousie University of Canada jointly with Weizmann Institute of Science of Israel have released one study on certain
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/18
Google’s Pixel Smart-Phone Hijacked within Less than a Minute at PwnFest
The Register reports that Google's most recent top creation Pixel smart-phone was victimized at the Seoul, South Korea held 'PwnFest hacking
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/18
Adult FriendFinder Hack Causes Risk for 412 Million Accounts
Some huge data breaches happened in the past few years, but this latest one is above all of them. LeakedSource informs that more than 412 million
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/17
The exercise for Combating Calendar Spam in iCloud Accounts
Web-surfers who frequently access Apple's iCloud will have perhaps observed a spike in spam invites landing inside their accounts during recent
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/17
Russian Hacker Cozy Bear Attacks Post Election in USA while bypassing Malware Detection
The morning following United States presidential election saw an onslaught of spear-phishing electronic mails attacking several political and
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/16
Yahoo Admits Theft of User Data in Employees’ Knowledge during 2014
Yahoo has said in the affirmative that a few of its staff indeed knew about hackers stealing data belonging to 500m account holders, years back in
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/16
FBI Malware Unlawfully Chased Harmless TorMail End-Users along with Paedophiles
A warrant's redacted edition which Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has presented requests to give in malware that exposes identity on PCs
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/16
Cybercrime Afraid of Upsurge after Hacking of Tesco Bank Data
Tesco has something to explain after a day of admitting that it was struck by a cyber robbery. Money was stolen from around 20,000 customers, out of
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/15
Ransomware Attack on Madison County Knocks Down Government Work
Madison County, Indiana's public officials can't reach the Madison's server ever since certain ransomware assault locked the computer files while held
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/15
Google to Label Unsafe Websites as ‘Repeat Offenders’
Safari, Firefox and Chrome are set to exhibit 'deceptive' warning covering one full web-page for those sites which seem to purposely disseminate
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/14
WikiLeaks goes through DDoS Attacks as US Citizens Vote for New President
There have been unrelenting cyber assaults against WikiLeaks during the past 24-hrs, so declared the organization on November 8 via Twitter. The group
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/14
Tesco Bank Attack - ‘Unprecedented and Serious’ Hack Scrutinized
The1 Financial Conduct Authority chief executive has said that cyber attack causing a theft of money from around 20,000 accounts of Tesco Bank is
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/14
FBI Seizes Service Hosting Dark Websites
During 2013 when FBI confiscated the servers of dark websites which supported child pornography, many considered it to be a win for the righteous.
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/11
One Fresh Android Spyware Exaspy Attacks Company Executives
According to Skycure, Android kit is being used for attacking executives while acquiring admission into their messages and chat sessions such as MMS,
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/11
Hackers’ Future Attack could be on Wireless Connected Devices
Technology on this day is so advanced that it's possible to have all things that one may interact with be wireless connected. True the system provides
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/10
US is Prepared to Hack Russia if it Interferes in the Election
Officials of America are nervous because they think that alleged attempt by Russia of influencing election may extend till vote itself, and thus they
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/10
UK Authorities Detain 14 over Money Laundering after Stealing 11m Pounds
NCA (National Crime Agency) of UK recently detained fourteen persons suspected of employing Dyre and Dridex malicious programs for laundering 11
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/10
Another Person Arrested in Call Centre Fraud
A call centre fraud involving several million dollars transfer across countries had another person arrested November 3 for participating in conning
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/9
One More Massive Cyber Assault Bringing Down Internet of an Entire Country
The Mirai malware is being used in a cyber-crime for destabilizing the whole infrastructure of Liberia's Internet. This country of Africa was recently
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/9
Malware which took Part of the Internet Offline Presents Constant Threat
On 21st October, key websites including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, and Twitter, sputtered out because of a cyberattack having record-shattering power
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/8
Virus Attack on UK Hospitals Slows Down Services
The Lincolnshire and Goole Trust of UK's National Health Services is currently non-operational due to a cyber-attack. Seemingly, malicious software
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/8
Hack that Used a Drone to take Control of a Tower’s Light bulbs
Global researchers have shown with demonstration the simplicity of hacking into 'Internet of Things' referred to Internet-connected devices. With the
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/8
A Phishing Scam Targeted E-mails of Nurses Union
Email address of thousands of members from nurses' union are leaked following the scam attack over the organization. The NZNO (New Zealand Nurses
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/7
Flawed IoT Gadgets Exploitable for Hacking Smart-Phones
The world has already seen IoT (Internet of Things) getting utilized for executing the most massive distributed denial-of-service assaults ever,
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/7
A Group which is behind DNC Hack Exploits Windows Zero-Day
Microsoft has admitted what Google confessed to public yesterday: There is a major security flaw in Windows and hackers connected to the Russian group
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/4
The dangers that Hover on the Internet
In the dangerous areas of the Internet, an enormous network of compromised machines in October 2016 aided in tentatively destabilizing some popular
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/4
‘Google Chrome’ Search Term in Google Adwords Helps Malware Installation on Mac PCs
Cylance has exposed one malware-disseminating spree which utilizes Google AdWords for delivering malicious code and infecting users of Mac OS.
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/3
Malware of October 21 DDoS Assault Still Posing Trouble
An enormous sized cyber attack, which derailed Netflix, Twitter along with other websites, was carried out with one special type of malware which
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/3
U.S. Prosecutors Expecting Admission of Guilt Associated with Crime against JP Morgan
U.S. prosecutors will likely hear the second admission of crime commitment by offenders associated with one unlawful bitcoin exchange that one Israeli
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/3
WhatsApp 100 Pound Voucher Scam of Sainsbury - How to Protect Yourself
The offer comes through a message, apparently from the contacts of user, asking them to click on one malicious link for claiming their voucher.
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SPAMfighter News 2016/11/2
U.S. Military Cautions Hardware from China could be Used for Cyber Espionage
Defense officials have said that Pentagon's staff of late warned that no agency should use equipments of the computer manufacturer Lenovo of China
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/2
Botnet Mirai in the Dyn DDoS Assault Comprise 100,000 IoT Machines
The cyber assault which disrupted a large extent of USA's Internet recently occurred due to one fresh network of bots known as the Mirai botnet. The
SPAMfighter News 2016/11/2
Arrested Russian Hacker Allegedly Stole Bitcoins and Accounts from LinkedIn, Dropbox
According to U.S. officials, authorities arrested a man from Russia in Prague the capital of Czech Republic after being charged in California, USA for
