WordPress Sites Hacked Using Vulnerability

A critical Zero-day flaw in WordPress that was silently patched by the company before hackers have had their hands on the nasty bug to exploit millions of WordPress websites. To ensure the security of millions of websites and its users, WordPress delayed the vulnerability disclosure for over a week and worked with security companies and hosts to install the patch, ensuring that the issue was dealt with in short...

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Yahoo Disables Email Auto-Forwarding,Makes It Harder for Users to Move On

Yahoo! has disabled automatic email forwarding -- a feature that lets its users forward a  copy of incoming emails from one account to another. The company has faced lots of bad news regarding its email service in past few weeks. Last month, the company admitted a massive 2014 data breach that exposed account details of over 500 Million Yahoo users.If this wasn't enough for users to quit the service, another shocking...

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Microsoft Patches 5 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Microsoft has released its monthly Patch Tuesday update including a total of 10 security bulletin, and you are required to apply the whole package of patches altogether, whether you like it or not. That's because the company is kicking off a controversial new all-or-nothing patch model this month by packaging all security updates into a single payload, removing your ability to pick and choose which...

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How to Hack Someones Facebook Account Just by Knowing their Phone Numbers

  Hacking Facebook account is one of the major queries on the Internet today. It's hard to find — how to hack Facebook account, but researchers have just proven by taking control of a Facebook account with only the target's phone number and some hacking skills.Yes, your Facebook account can be hacked, no matter how strong your password is or how much extra security measures you have taken. No joke!Hackers with skills to exploit...

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Hack the Pentagon: Hackers find over 100 Bugs in U.S. Defense Systems

  The "Hack the Pentagon" bug bounty program by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has been successful with more than 100 vulnerabilities uncovered by white hat hackers in Pentagon infrastructure. In March, the Defense Department launched what it calls "the first cyber Bug Bounty Program in the history of the federal government " inviting hackers to take up the challenge of finding bugs in its networks...

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Apple hires Encryption Expert to Beef Up Security on its Devices

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have waged legal war on encryption and privacy technologies.You may have heard many news stories about the legal battle between Apple and the FBI over unlocking an iPhone that belonged to the San Bernardino shooter. However, that was just one battle in a much larger fight. Now, in an effort to make its iPhone surveillance-and-hack proof, Apple has rehired security expert and...

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