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Can you believe that it's been 6 years since we first launched The Hacker News? Yes, The Hacker News is celebrating its sixth anniversary today on 1st November. We started this site on this same day back in 2010 with the purpose of providing a dedicated platform to deliver latest infosec news and threat updates for Hackers, Security researchers, technologists, and nerds. Times flies when you are having fun! The Hacker News has become one of the World's popular and trusted Hacking News channel that went from ~100,000 readers to more than 10 million monthly readers — all because of THN readers high enthusiasm. In this short span of time, The Hacker News has achieved a series of milestone: The Hacker News Facebook page is going to hit 1.5 Million Followers, More than 1.6 Million followers on Google Plus+ , Over 200,000 Email Subscribers , And around 307,000 Twitter Followers. What's more? The Twitter Account of The Hacker News became officially verified (...

The Hacker News Magazine - Anniversary Edition  - November Issue 06 In November of 2010 the team at The Hacker News finally achieved our ultimate goal of launching an online News Portal and Magazine addressing the tricky and complicated world of hackers and hacking. In our first year The Hacker News made our fair shares of mistakes, typical of first-time publishers, but our successes have been innumerable and The Hacker News has reached many of it goals in this often hectic and exciting  first year. The Hacker News was fortunate enough to have assembled a dedicated and professional team that intrinsically understood that it is not enough to hope to succeed; you have to plan to succeed. And I am grateful to each and every one of these talent people that understood this concept and helped implement it daily to help insure our success. As the mainstream media often denigrates computer hackers as nothing more than digital pranksters, we at The Hacker News believe that many...

The Hacker News (THN), the widely-read cybersecurity news source for hackers and technologists, is celebrating its 7th Anniversary today. This is a huge milestone for THN and our team, but this day really belongs to you—our readers. Without you, we would not be here, and we appreciate you for reading, commenting, and sharing our content every day. 7-years ago today we started this website with an aim to provide a dedicated platform to deliver latest cybersecurity news and threat updates for everyone, including students, enthusiasts, technologists, security researchers and hackers as well. Times flies when you are having fun! "Over 6,700 Posts, 33,500 Comments And 293 Million Pageviews" We have always admitted that we do not cover everything, never did, never could, we just cover things that are important to our readers and impact a broader audience. So this is the actual difference between The Hacker News and a full-fledged media outlet. Since November 1, 20...

Hey friends, guess what? Yes, yes.. you read that right... It’s Party time for all of us, as The Hacker News (THN) is celebrating its 5th Anniversary Today. And what an epic 5 years it has been! We began our journey on this same day back on November 1, 2010, as a dedicated news platform for Hackers, Security researchers, technologists and nerds. And just because of your support ‘ The Hacker News ’ has become one of the World's popular Hacking and Technology News Platform that went from ~100,000 Readers to more than 4 Million unique monthly readers. So now it's time to Celebrate… and most importantly, Congratulate you all for the success of THN. Thank you all for your enthusiasm, contribution, support, sharing, love, time and efforts as well. We wouldn’t be here, five years on and still going strong, if you didn’t support us too. Future Plans at The Hacker News We don’t cover everything, never did, never could, we just publicized the th...

[THN] The Hacker News Exclusive   Report on  Sony 3rd Attack Issue ! On May 5th 2011 THN received an email that Hackers once again attacked Sony for the 3rd Time. The Hacker News is a responsible an online Hacker News Organisation. We propagate news specifically related to security threats.  Also, hacking threads and security issues from all over the world.  We are NOT associated with any HACKING GROUP like ANONYMOUS or Others . Lets talk about the " 3rd Sony Hack Issue ". As I said, on 5th May we got the mail from a hacker  that they got some new Information from Sony's Site. Here the Email Screenshot : We check the links, that contains some waste list of user names , Even there is not a single email ID in whole excel sheet that can be used against some spam/hack. Then why Sony so Scared ?? Now WHAT? !!  Is  it our responsibility as The Hacker News , that we inform Sony and Other Cyber Security Experts that hackers can attack again...

The Hacker News (THN) 1st Anniversary Celebration It has been a wonderful “HACK” filled year as we disseminated security and hacking information around the world. We are grateful for our loyal readership and welcome new readers and contributors. Let’s face it. Hacking isn’t going away and growing security concerns are an issue we all need to stay on top of. Being informed about the latest and newest in security measures and the work of hackers to break into these means is a global issue with tremendous consequences. Hacking and security violations affect us all. Not only big corporations which store your information but the health and welfare of your personal PC’s. The Hacker news has tracked the events of the last year and we are amazed and the talent and finesse of techy people who can break into the most complicated and sophisticated systems. You can depend on us for breaking news in the area of computer security. Keep reading and keep checking our daily web news. In c...

An anonymous hacker today publicly revealed details and proof-of-concept exploit code for an unpatched, critical zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin—one of the widely used internet forum software, The Hacker News has learned. One of the reasons why the vulnerability should be viewed as a severe issue is not just because it is remotely exploitable, but also doesn't require authentication. Written in PHP, vBulletin is a widely used proprietary Internet forum software package that powers more than 100,000 websites on the Internet, including Fortune 500 and Alexa Top 1 million companies websites and forums. According to details published on the Full Disclosure mailing list, the hacker claims to have found a remote code execution vulnerability that appears to affect vBulletin versions 5.0.0 till the latest 5.5.4. The Hacker News has independently verified that the flaw works, as described, and affects the latest version of vBulletin software, which even...

EXCLUSIVE — Beware, if you are using a Xiaomi's Mi or Redmi smartphone, you should immediately update its built-in MI browser or the Mint browser available on Google Play Store for non-Xiaomi Android devices. That's because both web browser apps created by Xiaomi are vulnerable to a critical vulnerability which has not yet been patched even after being privately reported to the company, a researcher told The Hacker News. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-10875 and discovered by security researcher Arif Khan , is a browser address bar spoofing issue that originates because of a logical flaw in the browser's interface, allowing a malicious website to control URLs displayed in the address bar. According to the advisory, affected browsers are not properly handling the "q" query parameter in the URLs, thus fail to display the portion of an https URL before the ?q= substring in the address bar. Since the address bar of a web browser is the most r...

Following vulnerability disclosure in the Mitron app , another viral TikTok clone in India has now been found vulnerable to a critical but easy-to-exploit authentication bypass vulnerability, allowing anyone to hijack any user account and tamper with their information, content, and even upload unauthorized videos. The Indian video sharing app, called Chingari, is available for Android and iOS smartphones through official app stores, designed to let users record short-form videos, catch up on the news, and connect with other users via a direct message feature. Originally launched in November 2018, Chingari has witnessed a huge surge in popularity over the past few days in the wake of India's ban on Chinese-owned apps late last month, crossing 10 million downloads on the Google Play Store in under a month. The Indian government recently banned 59 apps and services , including ByteDance's TikTok, Alibaba Group's UC Browser and UC News, and Tencent's WeChat over priv...

One of the most awaited occasions in a year is your birthday, same way we are today celebrating ' The Hacker News ' 2nd Birthday week from on 28th October-3rd November 2012. Originally founded on 1st November 2010 by Mohit Kumar , ' The Hacker News ' was the very First dedicated Hacking and Security News website available on Internet, Now been internationally recognized as a leading news source dedicated to promoting awareness for security experts and hackers. We are happy to announce that this project is now Supported and endorsed by thousands of Security Experts, administrators and members of various underground hacking groups and communities worldwide.  With the need for information security solutions becoming more critical, In these two years we served updates to over 30 Million Readers through various projects including Daily happenings of Hacking & Security community via The Hacker News , A most comprehensive and inf...

THN December Magazine Released ! Who We are at The Hacker News ?  It is hard to re-cap the past year and all the excitement and hard work we have experienced launching an online magazine.  The subject, Hacking, is even more exciting as the technology world awakens to the security issues facing all internet users from government, large corporations and personal users. We have tried very hard to keep the readers informed and up to date regarding security threats and security breaks world wide.  Our daily news aims to give business and personal PC users an understanding of what is happening in computer security developments and what criminal activity is breaching security systems. Mostly, we understand the importance of disseminating information and keeping the internet free of restrictions.  We believe that information and opinion are the foundation of a healthy society and we strive constantly to address the political and social issues facing our new world of ele...

The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the " Year of the Hack ” or “ Epic #Fail 2011 ”. Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for hacking faster then companies can increase their security.  Every year there are always forward advancements in the tools and programs that can be used by the hackers. At the end of year 2011 we decided to give " The Hacker News Awards 2011 ". The Hacker News Awards will be an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the Hacking community. The THN Award is judged by a panel of respected security researchers and Editors at The Hacker News. Year 2011 came to an end following Operation Payback and Antisec, which targeted companies refusing to accept payments to WikiLeak's, such as, Visa and Amazon. Those attacks were carrie...