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Apple ups iCloud security by using two-factor authentication and adding lots of alerts because of the iCloud Celebrity Hack, when dozens of celebrity nude photos were stolen. The first security measurement is that Apple started to notify users when someone tries to restore iCloud data to a

iCloud service was hacked today. A hacker claims to have managed to take possession of nude photos of several celebrities. The anonymous hacker, called Tristan, dumped a large cache of female celebrities photographs onto the 4chan online forum, an online message board used for sharing pictures. The

Fiverr.com recently suffered a Cross Site Request Forgery attack (CSRF attack). Below you’ll see a video posted by Mohamed A. Baset, a hacker that demonstrates how easy is to steal the account credentials of an anonymous user on a well known website, fiverr.com . What is CSRF?

Intel announced the self encrypting solid state disk (SSD) Pro 2500 series, which is aimed to be more secure against data breaches. With this new SSD product, Intel targets the business of all sizes. NEWS HIGHLIGHTS By increasing performance and limiting downtime, the Intel® SSD Pro 2500

DefCamp 5 is organized between November 25 to 29 at the Crystal Palace Ballroom, in Bucharest, Romania. Center for Research in Security Informatics Romania – CCSIR presents the event for hacking and information security in Central and Eastern Europe, DefCamp. DefCamp 2014 is by far the largest

Freshome Facebook page was hacked today. A facebook user called Verified Page has requested to take ownership of the page. Freshome lost in this way it’s 1 million users Facebook Page Account. The Freshome team received a strange notification on the Facebook page saying that: Page verified

Brasil Football World Cup Security Center accidentally leaked Wi-Fi Credentials from the Security Center of the most famous game event in the world, The FIFA World Cup. They have offered to cybercriminals the opportunity to carry out man-in-the-middle ( MITM ) attacks to break into their network

CloudFlare announced the acquisition of Criptoseal, the Trusted Computing and virtual private network (VPN) as a service company. CryptoSeal was founded by Ryan Lackey, a well-known engineer in the security community. According to Wikipedia, Ryan Donald Lackey (born March 17, 1979) is an entrepreneur and computer security

How Hackers Changed the World – We Are Legion is a documentary about Anonymous, a hacking documentary released by BBC. It goes in depth to describe some cyber attacks such as Church of Scientology, Paypal, Amazon, Visa, Mastercard and world governments in order to shame them for

Avast announced today on it’s blog that the avast forum was hacked. The forum suffered a serious security breach and 0.2% of it’s 200 millions customer accounts were affected. Near 400 000 avast accounts were affected by this cyber attack. In this way the user nicknames, user