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Rakos Malware Is Infecting Linux Servers And IoT Devices To Build Botnet Army Short Bytes: Your smart devices aren’t as smart as you think. After Mirai botnet, another similar malware named Rakos is here to compromise your IoT security. Rakos exploits the weak passwords and targets the SSH ports. Only time will tell if Rakos can turn out to be another massive threat like Mirai botnet. In case you’re facing a problem of your embedded devices going overloaded with networking and computing tasks, there are chances that it might be due to some foreign elements trying to lure your ‘smart’ device into joining a botnet cult. The security researchers at ESET have written about multiple cases of IoT devices and Linux servers being infected with Rakos malware since August. These attacks are launched from a temporary directory — named .javaxxx, .swap, or kworker — and often disguised as a part of the Java framework. Rakos malware performs its attacks via brute force attempts at SSH logins. Thi...

FreeDOS 1.2 Released After 4 Years: Features New Installer And MS-DOS Games Short Bytes: FreeDOS 1.2 operating system has been released by the FreeDOS project. The new release comes with many updated packages, DOS-compatible games, and a revamped installer which eases the setup process for new users. The FreeDOS Project’s founder Jim Hall has announced the latest release of the FreeDOS operating system after waiting for almost four years since the previous release. FreeDOS 1.2 marks the third major update in the FreeDOS family known for it extremely slow release cycle. FreeDOS, written in C language, is a free and open source operating system for x86 platform capable of running software designed for MS-DOS operating system which predates Microsoft Windows. On the other hand, MS-DOS was a proprietary operating system. == The updated and simplified installer in FreeDOS 1.2 counts to many visible changes which include various new and updated packages. With FreeDOS 1.2, the project h...

How This Farmer Built Her Own Internet Broadband, 35 Times Faster Than Average Short Bytes: Christine Condor, who calls herself a farmer’s wife, has created a local superfast broadband network named B4RN. It’s 35 times faster than the average UK internet connection speed. B4RN now claims to have laid 2,000 miles fiber cable and became an internet pioneer for 2,300 members of her rural community. Are you sick and tired of your internet service provider? There are good chances that your answer will be yes. So, what do you do to solve this issue? Well, you might intend to upgrade your plan or switch your ISP — right? But, Christine Condor, a self-described farmer’s wife, decided to take up the road less traveled. She has turned herself into a revolutionary internet pioneer, thanks to her DIY solution to her neighbor’s internet connectivity problems, according to BBC. This happened in 2009, when her efforts to improve the connectivity evolved into B4RN, an ISP providing one gigabit per ...

News Sony Tweets Fake News About Death of Britney Spears and Blames Hackers Sony is the latest company to become the victim of hackers, as the company’s Twitter account was compromised on Monday to tweet fake news about Britney Spears’ death. “Britney Spears is dead by accident! We will tell you more soon. #RIPBritney,” the message posted on Twitter by the official account of Sony Music Global read. Shortly after that, the official account of singer Bob Dylan was also hacked, most likely by the same group, to post a tweet reading “Rest in peace @britneyspears.” The tweets, which are no longer available at the moment of writing this article because both Sony and Bob Dylan account administrators took back control of the Twitter handles and removed the posts, included a third message acknowledging the hack. Related Reserve Bank Of India Is Paying Hackers To Hack Into The Central Bank's System “We saw a new IP logged into the account a few minutes ago and the tweet is posted by...

Tech Here Is Why You Should Play Watch Dogs 2 Game December 22, 2016 The White Cat 1026 Views 0 Comment game, hacker game, watch dogs 2 Watch Dogs 2, a game which lets you hack into major corporations in a high-tech San Francisco setting. The main character was dull, his hacking skills were boring, missions were repetitive and driving a car, well that was just whack. Those were the main complaints aimed at Watch Dogs, 2014’s over-hyped open world cyber adventure that burnt many who, based on years of excellent trailers and built up expectations, expected a different game. Watch Dogs fixes many errors by shifting action to the more colourful location of San Francisco, changing the main character to the street-smart cool of Marcus Holloway, and integrating his hacking skills seamlessly into gameplay. Related Changing Time and Date setting to Jan 1, 1970 will brick your iPhone That’s exactly what makes Watch Dogs 2 so much fun. Jam traffic lights and watch car carnage ensue. ...

The US’ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation hasn’t had an easy time of things in recent years: it’s been the subject of numerous hacks in recent years, starting in 2010. And now, the FBI wants answers. Reuters sources understand that the law enforcement agency is investigating how the intruders got in, and that the FDIC believes the Chinese military sponsored the attacks. While the full details of the initial hack aren’t available, it took a while to recover. The FDIC took until “at least” 2012 to make sure that its systems were clean, according to an internal probe. The FBI isn’t commenting, and the Chinese government tells Reuters that it’s “very hard” to determine where an attack came from without evidence. You’re not about to get firm answers about those hacks, we’re afraid. However, there’s no doubt that online security is still an ongoing problem. Official disclosures show that there were 159 instances of unauthorized access in the FDIC’s fiscal 2015, 20 of which were data b...

How To Know The Wi-Fi Password Without Cracking By Using Wifiphisher December 25, 2016 Neo 457 Views 0 Comment WiFiPhisher today we are going to show you How to Hack WiFi using wifiphisher – WPA | WPA2.WiFiphisher is fast attack and reveals password within plenty of time, doesn’t matter how much password is long or complex.No need of any dictionaries, no more brute force .wifiphisher technique is really fast, so let’s get started. What is WiFiphisher?Wifiphisher is a security tool that mounts automated phishing attacks against WiFi networks in order to obtain secret passphrases or other credentials. It is a social engineering attack that unlike other methods it does not include any brute forcing. It is an easy way for obtaining credentials from captive portals and third party login pages or WPA/WPA2 secret passphrases. How does it work? WiFiphisher creates an evil twin AP, then DoS all user from AP and when users re-authenticate, they redirected to fake AP with the same SS...