Hacker Breaks Into Stack Overflow
With 10 million registered users and over 50 million unique visitors every month, Stack Overflow is very popular among professional and enthusiast programmers. In a short note published by Mary Ferguson, VP of Engineering at Stack Overflow, the company confirmed…
Kibana Instances Exposing Elasticsearch Databases
More than half of the known cases of massive data breaches over the past year originated from unsecured database servers that were accessible to anyone without any password. Since the database of an organization contains its most valuable and easily…
26 Million Accounts Up For Sale On Dark Web
Hack Hex received an email from a Pakistani hacker, who goes by online alias Gnosticplayers. The hacker has previously hacked dozens of popular websites from companies which, according to him, probably had no idea that they were compromised. Just last…
Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data from Citrix
Citrix is a software company which provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies/ The company disclosed a massive data breach of its internal network by “international cyber criminals.” The company was…
Shamoon Malware Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company
Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia’s largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Italian…