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Another day another hack, as 2016 continues to contend for the year of the hacks title. The hits keep on coming and another one has popped up. QIP.ru, a Russian instant messaging service is now the latest victim after being attacked by hackers. Heroic, a cyber security startup which is

A data breach that was discovered by the US governed agency last year was being investigated over the past few years, and the results are stunning. It was revealed that the hack was actually initiated by the agency itself through some endless number of mistakes. The report was done by

Yelp, the popular customer review site, launched its own bug bounty program on September 6 and announced that white hackers and security researchers were free to walk around on its security systems and find any flaws and potential bugs that would put the service down. Yelp announced during the launch

Another day, another hacking incident. Close to 800,000 of the Brazzers porn networking site accounts have been hacked in a data breach. The data is said to have been extracted from a separate forum for the company, but users of the porn network who have never signed up for the

Recent malvertising campaigns have been noticed and they have been taking users from wherever they are in the world to the landing page of the Neutrino exploit kit, according to the Cisco Talos researchers. The malvertising ads comprised of malicious ads and an initial redirection of point and gate, and

Last.fm had close to 43 million accounts hacked back in 2012, and just like any other recent hacking revelation, the details are coming out now. The online music service advised all of its users to make a password reset back in 2012 when they suffered the hack. This was after

Reports indicated that political news outlet Infowars had been a victim of a hacking incident. The hack resulted in account details of the site’s account owners being stolen, and they are now being paraded for sale on the dark web. The data that is being offered up for sale seems

A fault in the Google login page was recently discovered which could allow hackers to steal users’ login data from the login page. Apparently, Google is not even slightly worried about fixing the problem. Aidan Woods, the security researcher who made the discovery, wrote on his personal blog that when

The use of the Internet on cars has seen some increasing worry about hacking of cars. The area has been of concern to the FBI and one state, Michigan, has already put measures to counter any hacking attempts on cars. Now, a report by some of the experts at the

Mozilla has launched a free website security testing tool which will allow developers and admins to find out if they are indeed using their tools to their full potential. A free website security testing tool has been made available by Mozilla which allows website developers as well as administrators to