Security

Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure? This came via a recent post made in Reddit. This list includes data of the country’s president. The database, which comprises 49,611,709 documents, was posted on the …

The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. The acting heads of state of five countries, namely Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, …

In an Android Security Advisory issued on March 18th, Google revealed it was notified of at least one unidentified rooting app available in Google Play and third-party marketplaces using a local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Linux kernel of Android devices. This Android vulnerability advisory was published just before …

FBI successfully hacked iPhone and they wont disclose how it got data from seized San Bernardino shooters iPhone. The iPhone has been at the center of a bitter dispute between Apple and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But that legal battle—in which a judge last month had ordered Apple to …

Two weeks back there was a  crippling cyber attack to hit US Office of Personnel Management that breached US Government Firewall. It’s the agency responsible for managing the personnel records and security clearance details for millions of current and past US government employees. US government alleged breach enabled attackers to make …