Security
Hackers won $60,000 in Zero-Day Initiative; targeting Amazon Echo
In a hacking contest Pwn2Own, the team of two whitehat hackers, has named the title in reward to hack Amazon Echo. Team Fluoroacetate, consisting of Amat Cama and Richard Zhu, has bagged $60,000 after hacking an Alexa-powered smart display, Amazon Echo Show 5. The bug in...
Security
Amazon’s Ring doorbell allows hackers to access WiFi
Researchers have identified a vulnerability in Ring doorbells that revealed the passwords for the WiFi networks to which they were connected. Ring, which was acquired by Amazon after paying $1 billion in February 2018, is an outdoor home security company that provides homeowners a...
Featured
Former Twitter employees caught spying for Saudi Arabia
Two former workers of Twitter have been charged for obtaining personal account information on the behalf of the government in Saudi Arabia, reported by Washington Post. Most of the users were critics of the Saudi Arabian regime. According to the charges leveled by U.S....
Security
Adobe Creative Cloud user records are exposed
Adobe left with the private information of approximately 7.5 million users exposed. The exposed record included email addresses, account creation dates, subscribed products, payment statuses, member ID’s, last time since the last login, country locations, and whether the user is an Adobe employee...
Android
Google Pixel 4 is no more secure until its next update 👎🏻
Google launched its latest phone version that will be available in the market on the 24th of October. While testing, It was observed by a journalist from BBC that the mobile’s face detection feature can allow you to access the phone despite your...
Apple
Apple starts sending Safari browsing data to Chinese Tencent
It seems Apple is more inclined towards China. It removed Taiwan flag emoji from iOS in Hong Kong soon after the launch of iOS 13.*. Now, Apple has also started to share safe browsing data of its official browser to a Chinese tech...
Security
Russian hackers alter Chrome and Firefox security protocols
Russia based hacker group alters the Chrome and Firefox web security protocols by using a different technique, never used before for the purpose. Turla, a bunch of hackers suspected to be the product of Russian government agency, modifies the Chrome and Firefox to track...
