British Airways Gets Hacked – 380,000 Payment Cards Compromised

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/british-airways-data-breach.html

Customers who booked flights between 21 August and 5 September via British Airways website and mobile app are affected.

Company told THN that "This is Data Theft, Rather Than a Breach."

WARNING — No.1 Adware Removal Tool (Paid) On #Apple App Store Caught Spying On Mac Users https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/mac-adware-removal-tool.html …

Microsoft Issues Software Updates for 17 Critical Vulnerabilities

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/microsoft-software-updates.html

Adobe Issues ColdFusion Software Update for 6 Critical Vulnerabilities

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/adobe-software-updates.html

Apple Removes Several Trend Micro Apps For Collecting MacOS Users' Data

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/apple-trendmicro-macos-apps.html

Tor Browser Zero-Day Exploit Revealed Online – Patch Now

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/tor-browser-zero-day-exploit.html

Beware! Unpatched Safari Browser Hack Lets Attackers Spoof URLs

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/browser-address-spoofing-vulnerability.html

Tesla Model S Hack Could Let Thieves Clone Key Fobs to Steal Cars

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/tesla-model-s-remote-hack.html

Researchers demonstrated a new "Cold Boot" attack that can let attackers steal "Full Disk #Encryption" keys and other sensitive data from computers



https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/cold-boot-attack-encryption.html



Nearly all modern PCs and Macs are vulnerable

Twitter introduces a new security feature... allowing users to check if their account has been hacked

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/twitter-account-hacked.html

Creator of Linux, "Linus Torvalds," apologizes for his years-long rude, unprofessional behavior and rants

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/linus-torvalds-jerk.html …

He plans to take a break from the opensource development to patch himself and learn empathy skills.

Powerful #Android and #iOS Spyware — Pegasus — Found Deployed by 36 Operators in 45 Countries



https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/android-ios-hacking-tool.html



"At least 6 countries with significant #Pegasus operations have previously been linked to abusive use of #spyware to target civil society," researchers said.

3 young hackers who were arrested last year for creating and using "Mirai Botnet" are now helping—as part of their sentencing—the FBI fight cybercrime to stay out of jail

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/mirai-botnet-fbi-cybercrime.html

New Windows and #Linux Malware — Dubbed XBash — Combines #Ransomware, Coin-Mining and #Botnet Features Into One



https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/ransomware-coinmining-botnet.html



⚠️Important: Paying Ransom Will Get You Nothing!

Security researcher discloses a new "UNPATCHED" zeroday vulnerability in Microsoft JET Database Engine, affecting all Windows versions (including Server Editions)... Proof-of-concept exploit code released.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/windows-zero-day-vulnerability.html

For over a year, a flaw in Twitter's API has been exposing millions of users' private Direct Messages to unauthorized 3rd-party app developers

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/twitter-direct-message-api.html

Twitter asked developers to delete data they should not have... bcoz everyone is not Cambridge Analytica!?

A Former NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Illegally Taking Top Secret Documents and Hacking tools Home—Which Were Later Stolen by Russian Hackers.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/nsa-secret-hacking-tools.html

It's the same Incident that eventuality led to the US government ban on Kaspersky software.

New #Linux Kernel Root Privilege-Escalation Vulnerability (CVE-2018-14634) Affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Operating Systems. Proof-of-Concept Exploits Released.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/linux-kernel-vulnerability.html

Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit Malware—Dubbed "LoJax"—in the Wild, Linked to Russian Hacking Group Fancy Bear
. Since rootkit resides in the compromised UEFI firmware and re-infects computer before the OS even boots, reinstalling the operating system, formatting the hard disk, or even replacing the hard drive with a new one would not be sufficient to remove the malware.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/uefi-rootkit-malware.html

Chinese hacking group "Pangu" claims to have jailbroken iOS 12 on Apple's brand new “iPhone XS” by bypassing a functional PAC mitigation on A12 Bionic chip.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/ios12-iphone-jailbreak-exploit.html

Remember the "Hacky Hack Hack" Folder? 16-Year-Old Boy Who Hacked Into #Apple's Private Systems and Downloaded 90 GB of Data Gets NO JAIL Time.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/09/apple-server-hack.html