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Bank ATMs in the UK can be hacked any time says FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) of the United States has issued a fresh alert which says Bank ATMs in the UK can be hacked any time soon. The confidential alert says that some high profile cyber crooks, probably backed by some state-funded hackers are plotting a concerted global malware attack on free cash vending machines […]

Timehop data breach details

New York-based Timehop Company which provides an application for smartphones users to collect their memories from their old social media posts has disclosed that almost all of the private information of all its 21 million users was hacked by cyber crooks last week. The hacked info includes usernames, email address, telephone numbers and the virtual […]

Car Infotainment Systems trigger Cyber Threat scare

Did you ever imagine that your car infotainment system can prove as a data goldmine for hackers? If not, then you better take a look at this article. A researcher named Gabriel Cirlig working for a California based security firm called ‘Ixia’ has found out that Car Infotainment systems can leak out sensitive data to […]

British homes with Smart Electric Meters are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks!

Security experts from UKs’ intelligence agency GCHQ say that millions of homes running on smart electric meters are vulnerable to Cyber Attacks. As the agency has raised its concerns over the security of the meters last week, Ministers have taken a note of it and are about to act after discussing an apt solution with […]

Can a CASB Thwart the Uber Hack?

This post was originally published here by  Rich Campagna. Another day, another massive data breach, this one involving Uber and the theft of data on more than 57 million drivers and customers. Like the recent high profile AWS S3 misconfigurations leading to unwanted exposure of sensitive data, the Uber hack could have been prevented with basic Cloud Access […]

Cyber Attack on UBER leaks 57 million Customer and Driver details!

Hackers launched a Cyber Attack on UBER in October 2016 to steal data from more than 57 million customers and drivers. And what’s astonishing in this attack saga is that the IT team of UBER paid the hackers $100,000 to make the hackers delete the information from their servers and to conceal the massive breach […]

T Mobile website vulnerability exposes personal info of 76 million users to hackers

A major flaw on the website of T-Mobile could have exposed personal data of more than 76 million of customers to hackers. And security experts say that all such information can be used in social engineering attacks to commandeer a user’s line or even worse. The flaw was discovered by Karan Saini who works for […]

More than 700000 UK customer details were leaked in Equifax Cyber Attack

Equifax in its fresh public statement has admitted that personal details of more than 700,000 UK customers’ were leaked in the cyber attack which took place in 2Q of this year. And the details include credit card details (partial info), phone numbers, driving licenses, and other details. The credit monitoring company which is based in […]

Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly phone hacked by Foreign Government

In a major concern to the United States cybersecurity, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly’s phone is said to have been hacked by some state-funded actors in December last year. The official was unaware of this cyber activity until September of 2017 when he turned out for help to White House tech support for […]

Cyber Attacks become a big hurdle for the development of Autonomous Cars

As hackers are becoming more sophisticated in launching cyber attacks, they are mostly aiming companies hailing from the tech sector. The reason, these companies have the potential to obey any/all sorts of demands put forward by the hackers. One such tech sector which is predicted to be adversely affected is the self-driving cars.  By 2020, […]

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