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Ticketmaster agrees to pay $10 million as fine for hacking a rival Company:  Ticketmaster   must pay a hefty $10 million fine after several employees utilized unlawfully obtained passwords to hack a rival company’s computer systems - in attempts to “choke off” its business.   This co-conspirator illegally retained credentials from the rival firm, which he and other Ticketmaster executives then used to hack into the victim company’s systems. From there, they were able to monitor the company’s draft ticketing web pages, allowing them to find out which artists planned to use the rival company to sell tickets. They were also able to hack into and snoop on the company’s Artist Toolbox, a password-protected app that provides real-time data about ticket sales.   FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney in a statement said, “When employees walk out of one company and into another, it’s illegal for them to take proprietary information with them. Ticketmaster used stolen ...

For the last two hundred years, Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory of natural selection has shaped our view of man’s existence on earth. In the last couple of years, though, Fortnite, the massively popular online game played by millions worldwide, has taken this concept of survival to a whole new level. Played in a virtual world, players of Fortnite are tasked with testing their endurance as they battle other online players for tools and weapons that will keep them secure and the ‘last man standing’. In the last few weeks, however, Check Point Research discovered security vulnerabilities in the game’s login process that could have allowed a threat actor to take over the account of any user, view their personal account information, purchase virtual in-game currency and eavesdrop on in-game chatter as well as home conversations. Previous Fortnite Hacks created by Epic Games, an American video game developer, Fortnite is the game played by nearly 80 million people world...

Warning ! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now. The most popular Mega chrome extension is being hacked by an attacker's server located at megaopac host in Ukraine and replaced with a bundle of PUP Malware for Stealing your Security Information Most of us are popular with the chrome browser and it occupies 59% Browser share world wide with complairsion to other browsers like Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Opera.Google's strong marketing strategy for Chrome certainly contributed (and continues to contribute) to the browser's success. Besides actively stimulating interest in Chrome through marketing, Google's own credibility and reputation passively attract attention to Chrome. Chrome itself famous for its Simplicity and Technologies. Chrome wants the user to focus on the web content without distraction from the browser's UI. But two days ago, on 4th of September an insi...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Warning ! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now. The most popular Mega chrome extension is being hacked by an attacker's server located at megaopac host in Ukraine and replaced with a bundle of PUP Malware for Stealing your Security Information Most of us are popular with the chrome browser and it occupies 59% Browser share world wide with complairsion to other browsers like Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox and Opera.Google's strong marketing strategy for Chrome certainly contributed (and continues to contribute) to the browser's success. Besides actively stimulating interest in Chrome through marketing, Google's own credibility and reputation passively attract attention to Chrome. Chrome itself famous for its Simplicity and Technologies. Chrome wants the user to focus on the web content without distraction from the browser's UI. But two day...

In light of many recent cases of WhatsApp “hacking” , If someone on your contact list has or is asking for your WhatsApp account verification code – BEWARE!! It could be a scammer that is using your contact's WhatsApp account to make that request! After getting many requests to investigate Whatsapp hacking cases and along with several associates, we have spent time researching and have analyzed how criminals are possibly hacking WhatsApp. There is no technology used, however the victims are not managing to identify the criminals who are hiding using the name of the victim’s friend in most cases. This explanation should assist and may help in creating more awareness on how to prevent WhatsApp hacking.... Read More