Russian Hacker Behind LinkedIn Breach also Charged with Hacking Dropbox and Formspring

The Hacker News Daily Updates 2016 Top Trending IT Security Resources Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 24, 2016 Russian Hacker Behind LinkedIn Breach also Charged with Hacking Dropbox and Formspring The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police, was believed to be the one responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, according to a statement released by LinkedIn. Now, United States authorities have officially indicted Yevgeniy ... Read More New Drammer Android Hack lets Apps take Full control (root) of your Phone Earlier last year, security researchers from Google's Project Zero outlined a way to hijack the computers running Linux by abusing a design flaw in the memory and gaining higher kernel privileges on the system. Now, the same previously found designing weakness has been exploited to gain unfettered ... Read More An Army of Million Hacked IoT Devices Almost Broke the Internet Today A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against Dyn, a major domain name system (DNS) provider, broke large portions of the Internet on Friday, causing a significant outage to a ton of websites and services, including Twitter, GitHub, PayPal, Amazon, Reddit, Netflix, and Spotify. But ... Read More Massive DDoS Attack Against Dyn DNS Service Knocks Popular Sites Offline UPDATE — How an army of million of hacked Internet-connected smart devices almost broke the Internet today. Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one such attacks that cause a massive damage to any ... Read More Dirty COW — Critical Linux Kernel Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild A nine-year-old critical vulnerability has been discovered in virtually all versions of the Linux operating system and is actively being exploited in the wild. Dubbed "Dirty COW," the Linux kernel security flaw (CVE-2016-5195) is a mere privilege-escalation vulnerability, but researchers are ... Read More 2016 Top Trending IT Security Resources Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India