How a Teen Hacker was making $50,000 per month

Argentina: Police have arrested a 19 years old hacker targeted international money transfer and gambling websites to make $50,000 a month. That teen was making $50,000 a month from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, police say. During the arrest operation police shut down the Electricity of the area where the teen lived to prevent the deletion of sensitive data. The Teen hacker was living with his father and according to police the were chasing him for more than a year. In the teenager’s room, officials found high-capacity computers.

How the teen was making $50,000 a month? 

He allegedly used malware attacks to build up a network of thousands of zombie computers, which were then used to illegally divert money from accounts leaving virtually no trace behind. The young man is being accused of three crimes, and if convicted of all, could be sentenced to more than 10 years in prison, BBC writes.

iPhone 5S’ Fingerprint flaw allows hacker to hijack your Apple account too

Apple’s iPhone 5s Fingerprint technology heat is still up among the hackers, to hack it. Well, the technology has been already hacked by German hackers group CCC and cat paws’s also bypassed the Touch ID. Now, a German security firm SRL said, an image of a fingerprint can successfully unlock the phone and owner’s email address & it’s password could be hacked too from an iPhone 5S. “Users leave copies of their fingerprints everywhere; including on the devices they protect. Fingerprints are not fit for secure local user authentication as long as spoofs (‘fake fingers’) can be produced from these pervasive copies,” SLR said in a blogpost.

SRL’s “Operation iPhone” step-by-step:

1. First, a hacker or thief would turn on the Airplane mode that disables all wireless connections, preventing the iPhone’s owner from doing a remote wipe. (Airplane mode could be disable without Fingerprint, if the phone is setup under default settings)

2. Now, it’s time to create a fake fingerprint on a laminated sheet and later attached to one of their fingers, SRL’s showed out the method to create a fake fingerprint in the video below:

After unlocking the Phone, the hacker would be able to access owner’s Apple account (If two-factor authentication hasn’t been turned on,) after that Hacker would be able to see the iPhone 5S’s owner’s email address and reset the password to take over the account. However, if the owner already performed a remote wipe, this wouldn’t be possible.

Apple Touch ID in the News:

• Cat Paws successfully unlocked the iPhone 5S Fingerprint Sensor
• iPhone Fingerprint Sensor hacked by German Hackers group “CCC”
• Anonymous’ four claims to prove “iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database links to U.S Govt.”

Anonymous take down NSA website via dose of DDoS

The most controversial website of this year nsa.gov, which is an official website of US security Agency NSA has been taken down by one and only Anonymous hackers via dose of ddos. Media websites reporting about the downtime of the website from yesterday and today also at the time of reporting the news, website is still down, we also took a screenshot while checking the website for its downtime:

Hacked Teen sold mom’s jewellery after hackers threatened to share his Shameful footage

Hackers from the Philippines hacked into the computer of Hector Hernandez, 17 from New York, as the result of his hacked computer—hackers successfully managed to capture his embarrassing and shameful footage, after then hackers threatened Hector to share that footage. Hackers contacted hector on Facebook and threatened him to share the video with his friends and post it to his school’s website if he didn’t send them a large amount of cash.

                                                                    Hackers threatened him on facebook

Instead of consulting with parents or reporting to Police, hector gage his mom’s precious jewellery collection for $1,500, which she says was worth $100,000.Hector transferred the cash in three instalments into a bank account in Manilla (Philippines.)

“I was scared. I didn’t know what to do,” hector told Fox News. “I didn’t want my parents to find out what I did and I feel terrible about it.”

Hector was hit by a Remote Access Tool virus and he warned all of the users to turn off their Laptops & computers when they are not in use.

Barack Obama’s website was hacked and showing “Hacked by SEA”

United States’ president Barack Obama campaign website was hacked by hackers Sunday evening, website visitors were automatically redirected to Syrian Electronic Army (a Syrian hackers group) website, The Blaze reported.

The campaign website donate.barackobama.com was redirecting visitors to ‘sea.sy/indexs/,’ sea.sy is the website of Syrian hackers group Syrian Electronic Army, but hackers group haven’t tweeted about the hack so the hack might be done by other hacker group and they promoted SEA as hackers.

Visitors were introduced with a message “Hacked by SEA”:

The donation page that was compromised, however, appeared to have been old. The Obama campaign has most recently been using another page on the website, contribute.barackobama.com, to solicit donations, The Blaze writes.

Syrian Electronic Army is a hacker group which gained prominence through the hack of AP twiiter account, after that the group also hacked dozens of twitter accounts of media and others.

Hacker dumped details of US Secret Service Director Julia Pierson

A group of Hackers is claiming to leaded the data of Julia Pierson who is the first female Secret Service director appointed by President Obama and it just only week passed when Obama appointed her and her data has been Leaked.

It seems like Pierson was unable to keep the secrets in front of hackers…..

Pierson was among the names listed by hackers behind the website Exposed.re, which advertised “Secret Files” pertaining to US Attorney General Eric Holder, former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, former US president George W. Bush, actress Angelina Jolie and a slew of other celebrities and public figures.

What this Secret File contains:

• Social Security Number (SSN)
• Date of Birth
• Phone Numbers
• Current and Former Home Address
• Other really personal info is also leaked which personal credit report is prepared by Transunion with account activity as recent as January of this Year.
• Pierson’s shopping history at stores like Sears, the Home Depot and Macy’s was detailed alongside personal loan information from Citibank and American Express.

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The FBI is reportedly investigating the hack but has yet to announce news of an arrest.

Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake

In an interview at a Harvard fundraising campaign, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates admitted  that it was a mistake to force users to use hold down “Ctrl+Alt+Del” to log into their computers.

Gates replied the above comment, when David Rubenstein, Harvard Campaign co-chair asked “Why, when I want to turn on my software and computer, do I need to have three fingers on Control, Alt, Delete?”,“Whose idea was that?”

Gates also stated that “We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn’t wanna give us our single button.” Engineer David Bradley, who worked on the original IBM PC, invented the combination which was originally designed to reboot a PC blamed Gates for this, “I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,” Bradley said in an interview earlier.

A decade later in an interview with CNET, Bradley said he didn’t really know, why Microsoft decided to make his invention their log-in command. 

The famous Ctrl+Alt+Delete combination  has been vastly used still in Windows XP, Windows 7 and even in Windows 8,  which is equipped with new login screen, it allow users to lock a machine or access the task manager.