Thursday 23 April 2015

IOS 8 VULNERABILITY LETS HACKERS CRASH ANY IPHONE AND IPAD WITHIN WI-FI RANGE


Security researchers have uncovered a zero-day vulnerability in iOS 8 that could repeatedly crash users' Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods when the devices connect to a malicious wireless hotspot.
It’s like Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Apple's iOS devices that results in crashing either individual iOS apps or users' entire iPhones.

Saturday 11 April 2015

FREAK ATTACK: HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF


The recently disclosed FREAK (Factoring attack on RSA Export Keys) attack is an SSL/TLS vulnerability that is affecting major browsers, servers and even mobile devices.

HOW HACKERS COULD DELETE ANY YOUTUBE VIDEO WITH JUST ONE CLICK




A security researcher has discovered a simple but critical vulnerability in Google-owned YouTube that could be exploited by anyone to knock down the whole business of the popular video sharing website.

Kamil Hismatullin, a Russian security bod, found a simple logical vulnerability that allowed him to delete any video from YouTube in one shot.