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After HeartBleed and Freak Vulnerability which puts whole internet under threats, now another critical flaw have been discovered in BIND (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) , the most widely used software for translating domain names into IP addresses used by servers. The vulnerability is critical as an attackers can bring down huge swaths of the Internet. The vulnerability resides in all major versions of the software from 9.1.0 to 9.8.x, 9.9.0 to 9.9.7-P1, and 9.10.0 to 9.10.2-P2. Attackers…

Everyone of us have downloaded Microsoft latest Windows release Windows 10, but we are not aware that by using Windows 10 we are allowing Microsoft to spy on us. Yeah... that's true, Microsoft knows every activity of us with the latest Windows 10. As you know that every software of application comes with an Term & condition agreement and there is information about the Privacy issues also. Most of us downloaded Windows 10 and installed it, but almost many of them had didn't re…

Earlier we have wrote about the Windows 10 released and also share the official download link of Windows 10 ISO file. Now here is more related with the Windows 10. As we all know that Windows 10 have came up with lots of new features and improvement, there are many new tweaks yet to come. With the free upgrade to Windows 10 for Windows 7 and Windows 8 & 8.1 users Microsoft had also released more application and that also for free like Android Emulator, latest Visual Basics etc.. With…

29th July, Every Windows users were waiting for this date. Even this would be the biggest day in Microsoft history, as today Soft giant is going to release one of their best operating system "Windows 10". As Microsoft already mentioned that Windows 10 will be the last Windows versio n , so there will be no more Windows going to release. Everyone are very much excited to get Windows 10  on your system, and even everyone have reserved there copy of the Windows 10, as Microsoft …

Till yet hackers and security researchers have demonstrated many things that can be hacked, but this could be scary that now they have hacked Self-targeting Sniper Rifles. At the upcoming hackers conference "Black Hat", a couple Runa Sandvik and her husband Michael Auger is going to demonstrate there a years old researcher of exploiting Self-targeting weapons. TrackingPoint sniper rifles which run on Linux and Android and have WiFi connections can be hacked and change the target…

Here is another critical and serious security vulnerability found on the popular Google mobile operating system "Android". The vulnerability resides  in the  Stagefright media playback engine that is native to Android devices, which puts 95% of Android devices running version 2.2 to 5.1 under threats. Researcher of security firm Zimperium discovered the Stagefright vulnerability and mentioned that it is the worst Android flaw in the mobile OS history , and confirmed that they…

A group of hackers claim to be part of the loose-knit Anonymous hacktivist collective had claimed that they had hacked US Census Bureau. On this hackers had compromises over 4,200 workers details and published online. The data was allegedly taken from the Census Bureau's databases, and includes the usernames, work email addresses, and office phone numbers of the government department's staff. The announcement of the attack was made via a twitter account belonging to Anonymous Opera…

Earlier this month Italian spyware company 'Hacking Team' suffered from a severe cyber attack in which about 400GB of data were leaked online. Security researchers and investigators continuously dug into the leaked data dump, and many more things have come forward in the investigation. Now again another weird thing came to know Hacking Team's leaked data contains a source code of an Android Hacking tool which have the capability of infecting all Android-based devices even tho…

If you are running a blog or a website on WordPress then here is something serious issue that you should care about. Most popular popular web-based blogging software WordPress have been urged to update after a security vulnerability was discovered. WordPress team discovered a critical Cross Site Scripting vulnerability on version 4.2.2 and earlier that could allow any user with the Contributor or Author role to compromise a website. Gary Pendergast from WordPress team had wrote in a bl…

About 600TB of the admins data have been accidentally exposed by a simply mistake of MongoDB administrators, and that also by using outdated or unpatched version of the MongoDB software. According to the John Matherly, the creator of Shodan, reveals that nearly 595.2 terabytes of the data were exposed by using outdated or unlatched version of the software. All the details can be easily accessed without any authentication. MongoDB is a popular NoSQL database, alternative to SQL, an open s…

Just a hour ago, Tech giant Microsoft have released a emergency security updates which effects almost every version of windows. On the security advisory note published Monday, Microsoft explained the vulnerability as critical one, which effects every version of windows system. They said-- if the vulnerability exploited, could "allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted document or visits an untrusted webpage that contains embedded OpenType fonts." The s…

One of the popular online cheating site AshleyMadison.com have been hacked by an individual or a group of hackers team which claimed to have all the database of the site that includes users information, financial information and other proprietary information. The security breach of  this hookup service effects about 37 millions registered users, means hackers have the dump of the database of 37 millions users including there financial details also. The hackers calling themselves - Th…

When you’re creating a video it is easy to get carried away thinking about the video itself so much so you actually forget that videos have another crucial component: Audio. Of course it is possible that you intentionally want your video to be completely mute – but that probably isn’t the case as it would certainly be a lot less interesting. Frankly speaking, the audio that accompanies your video is just as important as the video itself and some would even go as far as to say that it is what…

World's most popular web browser Google Chrome may gets defeat by Microsoft latest browser Edge, under its performance, and security features. In a Windows blog post on Wednesday, Gabe Aul, Microsoft’s head of the Windows Insider program, announced a new set of benchmarks for Microsoft Edge, the company’s new web browser made for Windows 10. When Edge was tested using Google Octane, Apple JetStream, and WebKit Sunspider, Microsoft latest browser Edge shows the amazing performance le…

As Microsoft is working on its upcoming launch event of Windows 10, tech giant is also testing some other things. Today Microsoft were testing beta version of its artificial personal assistant 'Cortana' app for Android and some how it gets leaked over the internet. The leaked version of the beta actually came from a unknown member of Microsoft's Windows Insider.  The leaked version of the beta actually came from a unknown member of  Microsoft's Windows Insider program.…

It just some hours left for celebration of Eid-ul-fitr, and there is no doubts that the festival is being celebrated worldwide. It is the biggest day for Pakistan people, but some people is busy is doing some other things. Just an hour ago, there is an massive cyber attacks on the Pakistan Government Server. A hacker with the online alias 'D@rk sH@d0W' have hacked and defaced almost every government web portal. On this hack hacker had defaced the official site of Pakistan Pre…

Here is a big news for everyone that Mozilla team had made a justify decision to block the all versions of Flash Player from Firefox until Adobe releases a patch. Head of Firefox support Mark Schmidt,  tweeted - "BIG NEWS!! All versions of Flash are blocked by default in Firefox as of now," Along with the tweet he added a link of the page which details that the latest version on the Flash Player were also blocked for the users security concerns. The two Flash zero-day bug …

It was just a week ago that couples of Zero-day vulnerability was disclosed in Adobe flash software, which was revealed from the leaked 400 GB dump taken from Hacking Team, the Italian spyware developer that was breached eight days ago. As the vulnerability was addressed on the latest updates of the software, but this will not going to give a deep relaxed sleep. This is because another alarming Zero-day vulnerability had been discovered on the Adobe Flash and Oracle's Java software f…

Popular instant messaging service 'Whatsapp' owned by Facebook Inc is soon going to add another couples of cool feature. These features are being adopted from its parent site Facebook. Whatsapp is reportedly testing 'Like button' and 'Mark as unread' feature on its messaging platform. Ilhan Pektas, WhatsApp beta tester, tweeted a teasing tweet  hinting the Like Button feature on whatsapp. There is not much detail revealed and neither Whatsapp have commented any ne…

This is not a new things that gadgets freak always try to do something different with there gadgets, and earlier also we have seen that freak minds always do different things with Android platform. Here another tweaks have been performed on latest Android based smart phone Asus ZenFone 2.  XDA Developer forum member ycavan managed to get Windows 7 running on an Asus ZenFone 2. Regarding this tweak it is been said that Asus ZenFone 2 utilizes an Intel-based Atom processor, hence make the…

In the recent security breach of Hacker Team where 400 GB of data exposed, the leaked data shows many new and confidential information about the surveillance software firm. After analyzing the leaked data, experts have found that Hacker Team had three software exploit where two is of Adobe and one is of windows. Out of two, one of the Flash Player vulnerabilities, known as Use-after-free vulnerability with CVE-2015-0349 , has already been patched. But the another one is Zero-day exploit …

The  internal confidential documents of Italian Surveillance Firn 'Hacker Team' which was leaked online after the security breach, stats that the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and the US Army all made use of its controversial spyware known as Remote Control System, or Galileo. According to The Intercept, after analyzing the leaked data of Hacker Team - it says that the tool user by the different government agencies, Galileo allows users to take over their targets' computers, act…

Hacking Team, the Italian surveillance firm that develops spyware and hacking software has been allegedly hacked by an unknown hacker and also exfiltrated 400 GB data from its server. At the mean time there is no response or comments came from Italian Surveillance firm. This is quit often why hackers have targeted Hacking Team, as they are been at center because of their surveillance solutions and service that they provides, but this could be the big question on the firm which provides suc…

It looks that hackers are exploiting another zero-day flaws on popular eCommerce platform "Magento" owned by eBay, for stealing credit card details. Currently security firm Sucuri researchers are investigating on the issue and they believe that hackers are injecting malicious code into Magento core file or some widely used extensions, in order to steal users credit card details. At the mean time Sucuri researchers have found an attack script that pilfers the content of every P…