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Man escapes from jail after sending fake bail email

Posted on March 31, 2015 by nocrackingzone

An imprisoned fraudster cooked up a bogus set of bail instructions and emailed it to prison officials who then let him walk out. He granted himself a 3-day furlough, then turned himself back in.

World Backup Day – is your data safe enough?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Ransomware has made us all aware of the value of backups – but there are many other reasons to have a copy of your vital data in reserve!

DARPA’s plan to make software security “the domain of machines”

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock can sit unobserved in critically important software for years. The answer, according to DARPA, is intelligent software that fixes buggy programs while we sleep. Is it time to welcome our new robot guardians?

NSA faces security scare, this time physical: 1 killed, 1 injured in HQ incident

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Security breaches at the US National Security Agency typically get a lot of publicity. This one is no exception, but it’s not a network intrusion or a data leak…

Slack gets hacked – rolls out two-factor authentication after user database breach

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nocrackingzone

Slack is the latest start-up to make a big media splash in one of the worst possible ways – by acknowledging a data breach that exposed its users to malicious hackers.

Stolen Uber login credentials for sale on the dark web

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nocrackingzone

At least two sellers on the dark net appear to be selling Uber customer logins for as little as $1, with one offering a discount for bulk purchases.

Hotel Wi-Fi router security hole: will this be the Ultimate Pwnie Award Winning Bug for 2015?

Posted on March 30, 2015 by nocrackingzone

If you were a cracker, and you could write your own specifications for a remote unauthenticated read/write hole… …this is probably what you’d ask for.