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Aircrack-ng 1.6 released with new features and a lot of improvements with Speed, memory usage and rate display. Aircrack-ng contains a complete set of tools to perform a Wi-Fi network security assessment. The tool focuses on multiple areas of WiFi security such as capturing packets, replay attacks, checking WiFi cards and driver capabilities for injection. Aircrack-ng 1.6 The most noticeable  change  with the new version is the rate display, with the new version “it takes into account the complexity of 802.11n/ac and calculates the maximum rate that can be achieved on the AP.” Aircrack-ng @aircrackng Aircrack-ng 1.6 released https:// aircrack-ng.blogspot.com/2020/01/aircra ck-ng-16.html  … 224 4:55 AM - Jan 26, 2020 Twitter Ads info and privacy 115 people are talking about this Now it includes the basic UTF-8 support for ESSID, so you will get the WPA3 or OWE network displayed correctly. Aircrack-ng...

Anti-virus software firm Avast reportedly spying hundreds of millions of Users browsing activities including, every click, every purchase you made online, and selling the collected data into various clients that include Home Depot, Google, Microsoft, Pepsi, and McKinsey and many other companies. Avast is one of the leading security firms with more than 435 million active users per month, and well known for offering Free Anti-Virus software. The report claims that Avast has collected data from hundreds of millions of users, and then gives that to Jumpshot, a subsidiary of Avast that’s been offering access to user traffic from 100 million devices, including PCs and phones. Once the collected data will be handover to the Jumpshot, it repackages the collected data into different products and sells it into various largest companies in the world. Credits :  Motherboard In return, these companies are paid millions of dollars for Jumpsuit products such as “All Clicks Feed,” wh...

Bryan Connor Herrell, 25, AlphaBay Moderator pleads guilty for his job role in the fraudulent organization. Herrell’s job role is to resolve disputes between vendors and purchasers. The AlphaBay was an illicit market place operated on the  darknet , vendors, and customers engaged in exchanging different types of illicit goods such as stolen identity information, credit card numbers and other illegal items. The market was taken down on 20 July 2017, as a result of law enforcement operations, led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the Dutch National Police, with the support of  Europol . Websites takedown on 20 July 2017 Before takedown AlphaBay had more than 200 000 users, 40 000 vendors and more than 1 billion was transacted in the market since it was created. According to  court documents , Herrell went by the name “Penissmith” and “Botah” in the marketplace, his job role is to settle a dispute between the...

Kali Linux 2020.1 released with new tools, improvements to theme & kali-undercover, adds Non-Root by default and Kali single installer image. With the release as previously announced, Kali Linux moved to a traditional default non-root user and also announced NetHunter Rootless Edition. Kali Linux 2020.1 Earlier this year kali Linux team at Offensive Security  announced  the move to the “traditional default non-root user” model, now the changes to effect with version 2020.1. Earlier kali inherited the default root policy from its predecessors, starting from Kali 2020.1 there is no longer a superuser account and default user now is a standard, unprivileged, user. The change was made due to security reasons, so no more root/toor it should be kali/kali. Kali as the new username & password Another notable change is the Single Installer Image, Kali no longer offer images for every desktop environment (DE). Instead, they now provide a single image and ask yo...

Researchers observed new snake ransomware that written in Golang targeting Windows users to encrypt the system files and remove the Volume Shadow Copies that the OS uses for backup. Snake ransomware is a targeted campaign that contains a standard ransomware feature with some of the more complex functionalities. Malware authors choose the  Golang language  which is used to write some of the most recent ransomware families and utilized by some of the  RaaS  (Ransomware as a Service) offerings since it is flexible for cross-platform and completely open-source programming language. Researchers believe that the campaign has the potential to do serious and critical damage to an infected environment.  Snake ransomware targeting the specific platforms such as SCADA, enterprise management tools, system utilities and also some of the specific targeted applications include VMware Tools, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Nimbus, Honeywell HMIWeb, FLEXn...

If you're among those millions of customers who shopped at any of 850 Wawa stores last year but haven't yet hotlisted your cards, it's high time to take immediate action. That's because hackers have finally put up payment card details of more than 30 million Wawa breach victims on sale at Joker's Stash, one of the largest dark web marketplaces where cybercriminals buy and sell stolen payment card data. As The Hacker News  reported  last month, on 10th December Wawa learned that its point-of-sale servers had malware installed since March 2019, which stole payment details of its customers from potentially all Wawa locations. At that time, the company said it's not aware of how many customers may have been affected in the nine-month-long breach or of any unauthorized use of payment card information as a result of the incident. Now it turns out that the Wawa breach marked itself in the list of largest credit card breaches ever happened in the history of the U...