Harvard Undergraduate Council Website Hacked By Iran Cyber Security Group

On Thursday evening, the Undergraduate Council website was briefly hacked by a group that calls itself “Iran Cyber Security Group” The website was restored by Friday morning by UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher.

The outcome of the hack upon visiting the website presented visitors with a cartoon of President Donald Trump being punched in the chin by an individual. The individual’s face was not depicted however it wore a wristband that had stripes on, the color of the stripes were similar to the color of the Iranian flag: green, white and red.

Students caught hacking teacher's email account for exam papers after returning 'near perfect' papers

Five students have been disciplined after hacking a teacher's email account in order to cheat in an exam.

The teens managed to log into the account and stole the answers for the maths test.

But they were caught - when teachers noticed all five managed to get exceptional scores in the preliminary exams.

How to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress this week to explain how his company collects and handles users' personal information.

The past few weeks have been difficult for Facebook over concerns that the data of millions of users has been breached.

Facebook stores details of almost every action you have taken and interaction you have engaged in on its platform.

Finland's 3rd Largest Data Breach Exposes 130,000 Users' Plaintext Passwords

Over 130,000 Finnish citizens have had their credentials compromised in what appears to be third largest data breach ever faced by the country, local media reports.

Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) is warning users of a large-scale data breach in a website maintained by the New Business Center in Helsinki ("Helsingin Uusyrityskeskus"), a company that provides business advice to entrepreneurs and help them create right business plans.

Unknown attackers managed to hack the website (http://liiketoimintasuunnitelma.com) and stole over 130,000 users’ login usernames and passwords, which were stored on the site in plain-text without using any cryptographic hash.

Apple macOS Bug Reveals Passwords for APFS Encrypted Volumes in Plaintext

A severe programming bug has been found in APFS file system for macOS High Sierra operating system that exposes passwords of encrypted external drives in plain text.

Introduced two years ago, APFS (Apple File System) is an optimized file system for flash and SSD-based storage solutions running MacOS, iOS, tvOS or WatchOS, and promises strong encryption and better performance.