Facebook Takes Down Bitcoin Stealing Botnet that Infected 250,000 Computers

Once again Facebook is on The Hacker News! This time not for any scam or surveillance, but for a different reason.  The social networking giant has managed to take down a Greek botnet that used Facebook to spread malware and infected 250,000 computers to mine crypto-currencies, steal bitcoins, email passwords and banking details. Facebook is always one of the favourite weapon of cyber criminals, cyber thieves and...

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Facebook Founder Wants to Make Internet Availability as Universal as 911 Emergency Service

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a dream to make Internet access available to everyone across the world - Zuckerberg argues Internet should be a service as essential as of 911 in the case of an emergency. In a blog post published Monday in The Wall Street Journal, founder of the social networking giant highlighted the future of universal Internet access, along with the steps he thinks to achieve it. Today...

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Android Vulnerability Allows Applications to Make Unauthorized Calls without Permissions

A major vulnerability believed to be present in most versions of Android can allow a malicious Android applications on the Android app store to make phone calls on a user’s device, even when they lack the necessary permissions. The critical vulnerability was identified and reported to Google Inc. late last year by researchers from German security firm Curesec. The researchers believe the virus was first noticed in Android version...

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Apple's New Swift Programming Language for iOS And OS X Apps. Goodbye Objective-C

The development of self own languages has become emblematic of the hot new trend in business as every big Internet service provider is now developing their own and unique programming languages. Two months ago, Facebook released its modern programming language called 'HACK', which is specially designed to make the process of writing and testing code of complex websites and other software faster, and the company already drives almost all...

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Does Google Have A Secret “Translate” Service & Why Should Search Marketers Care?

Google is probably the largest translation service globally with its popular Google Translateonline service. It is also fighting spammers that auto translate content with this service and put it online. This is why I was so surprised to see that Google is actually a player in auto translating content. I saw this first with Google Play when they added auto translation of app descriptions, and lately I’ve seen this again...

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4Chan "Hacked" Most Popular Image-Bulletin Board Compromised

The Founder of 4Chan,Christopher Poole aka "moot" has confirmed few hour ago,in a blogspot that the popular image-based bulletin board was hacked. The attacker gained access to the administrative function and successfully hacked into 4chan database by exploting a website vulnerability last week.The motive behind the hack was to expose the posting habits of fpecific user the attacker didnt like,moot wrote It is belived that the software vulnerability...

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A permanent hacker space in the Brazilian Congress

On December 17, the presidency of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies passed a resolution that creates a permanent Laboratório Ráquer or “Hacker Lab” inside the Chamber—a global first. The resolution mandates the creation of a physical space at the Chamber that is “open for access and use by any citizen, especially programmers and software developers, members of parliament and other public workers, where they can utilize public data...

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