Pre-installed Backdoor On 700 Million Android Phones Sending Users' Data To China

The Hacker News Daily Updates Nagios Monitoring Handbook Level up your IT Infrastructure Monitoring! Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Nov 16, 2016 This Hack Gives Linux Root Shell Just By Pressing 'ENTER' for 70 Seconds A hacker with little more than a minute can bypass the authentication procedures on some Linux systems just by holding down the Enter key for around 70 seconds. The result? The act grants the hacker a shell with root privileges, which allows them to gain complete remote control over encrypted ... Read More Pre-installed Backdoor On 700 Million Android Phones Sending Users' Data To China Do you own an Android smartphone? You could be one of those 700 Million users whose phone is secretly sending text messages to China every 72 hours. You heard that right. Over 700 Million Android smartphones contain a secret 'backdoor' that surreptitiously sends all your text messages, call log, ... Read More Dutch Hacker Who Almost Broke The Internet Escapes Jail The Dutch hacker, who in 2013 was accused of launching the biggest cyberattack to date against the anti-spam group Spamhaus, escaped prison Monday even after he was sentenced to nearly 8 months in jail because most of his term was suspended. Sven Olaf Kamphuis, 39, was arrested in April 2013 by ... Read More WhatsApp Adds​ ​2-Step Verification Passcode — Enable this Security Feature WhatsApp has introduced a new security feature that fixes a loophole in the popular messaging platform, which if exploited, could allow an attacker to hijack victim's account with just knowing the victim's phone number and some hacking skills. The attack does not exploit any vulnerability in ... Read More Wi-Fi Signal Interference Can Leak Your Passwords and Keystrokes Hackers can steal your sensitive information, such as your Passwords, PINs and Keystrokes, from your phone by observing changes in the wireless signal as you enter them into your smartphones. A group of researchers from the Shanghai Jaio Tong University, the University of South Florida and the ... Read More Nagios Monitoring Handbook Level up your IT Infrastructure Monitoring! 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