Teenage Hacker Arrested For Disrupting 911 Service With DDoS Attack

The Hacker News Daily Updates The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q4 2016 The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 31, 2016 Teenage Hacker Arrested For Disrupting 911 Service With DDoS Attack Just last month, researchers explained how an attacker can knock the 911 service offline in an entire state by launching automated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of just 6000 smartphones. But, doing so, in reality, could not only land public in danger but the attacker ... Read More Mirai Botnet Itself is Flawed; Hacking Back IoTs Could Mitigate DDoS Attacks The infamous botnet that was used in the recent massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the popular DNS provider Dyn, causing vast internet outage on last Friday, itself is flawed. Yes, Mirai malware, which has already enslaved millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices ... Read More New Privacy Rules require ISPs to must Ask you before Sharing your Sensitive Data Good News for privacy concerned people! Now, your online data will not be marketed for business; at least by your Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Yes, it's time for your ISPs to ask your permission in order to share your sensitive data for marketing or advertisement purposes, the FCC rules. On ... Read More This Code Injection Technique can Potentially Attack All Versions of Windows Guess what? If you own a Windows PC, which is fully-patched, attackers can still hack your computer. Isn't that scary? Well, definitely for most of you. Security researchers have discovered a new technique that could allow attackers to inject malicious code on every version of Microsoft's Windows ... Read More 'Celebgate' Hacker Gets 18 Months in Prison for Hacking Celebrity Nude Photos The hacker who stole nude photographs of female celebrities two years ago in a massive data breach — famous as "The Fappening" or "Celebgate" scandal — has finally been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison, authorities said on Thursday. 36-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania man Ryan Collins was ... Read More The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q4 2016 The 15 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up. 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