Google clean‑up targets malicious ad injectors
Google has received more than 100,000 complaints this year regarding unwanted ad injectors that have infected browsers.
Google has received more than 100,000 complaints this year regarding unwanted ad injectors that have infected browsers.
Despite the holiday season though, you can’t guarantee that hackers and cybercriminals won’t be on the hunt for weak and vulnerable social media slip ups, so what better time to give a refresher on social media safety than now?
Last week we reported on the Overwatch service that pinpoints every fake cell tower spying and tracking your smartphone. Now we present an Android app known as SnoopSnitch that can track Stingray, the favorite smartphone tracking gear of the FBI and NSA. Stingrays or IMSI catchers are surveillance tools that are being widely used by the government. These tools pretend […]
Recently Google announced its current experimental program named Vulnerability Research Grants (VRG). No doubt it is a great concept. In this program the security team of Google selects regular reporters and send them emails. The researchers then choose product/service from the list available in the email and investigate their chosen product/service’s security. Must Read: Hacking YouTube […]
Biohackers Identified the Way to Transform your Eyes into Night Vision Goggles — It requires injecting your eye balls with a chemical that serves as night vision serum. A small and independent group of researchers has identified a way to make humans see over 50m in the darkest areas during the night, thus, equipping them […]
Anonymous hacktivist group continues its efforts to expose social media profiles of the notorious rebel group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria/ISIS militants and its supporters by gathering a list of 26,000 plus Twitter handles of alleged connections of the extremist group. Earlier in March, a CtrlSec outfit member that is active online by the nick […]
ATTENTION!! Programmers, coders and hackers, students and professionals, techies and newbies – GEAR UP!! The countdown to one of the biggest programming events in the world – GOOGLE CODE JAM 2015 – has begun. With just less than 10 days to go to the Qualification Round, to be held on 10th April, brushing up on […]
The Pirate Bay has been facing extreme pressure from the Hollywood and music industry backed domain name industry. In recent times, The Pirate Bay has to switch multiple domain names due to these problems. In an unparalleled move, The Pirate Bay’s parent company Reservella Ltd. is now trying to get a .PIRATE extension for the […]
Search Engine Optimization: it’s an essential component of internet marketing strategy, I guess, but one with a bad public image, especially in the wake of years of abuse of optimization techniques by purveyors of malware and other bad actors (Black Hat SEO, or BHSEO).
Energy companies have been targeted with a new multi-stage malware attack used to infect company computers and steal sensitive data.
The humble password has struggled in recent years, and is often seen as vulnerable to attackers. The interactive infographic below offers up some alternatives. Click on the tabs to read about the options.
Good Bye GPS — DARPA to present another position-tracking technology. The U.S government’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has prioritized the development of a more dependable and efficient real-time location tracking technology due to the incompetence of GPS in specific situations. The information was made public on Thursday by a document on DARPA’s research projects. […]
Think Do-It-Yourself Computing, Think Raspberry Pi! Such a phenomenon this mini-computer has been! From the Pandora’s Box of Projects that is Kickstarter we bring you one of the most innovative applications of the Pi which has already raised £120,111 so far with more than 2000 backers- The PiJuice. The PiJuice serves the purpose of making […]
Researchers at MDSec, an IT security firm, have identified a method that allows thieves and hackers to bypass iPhone’s lockscreen utilizing equipment that costs merely few hundred dollars. In an iPhone, the lockscreen basically serves as a barrier between thieves and the phone since it bricks the device after 10 wrong guesses. Moreover, it has […]
A new email that has been targeting PayPal users states that the company is examining a payment reversal regarding Apple and user’s account has been restricted “due to login from an unknown device.” The email informs that user needs to click a “Login Now” button for resolving the problem. In reality, PayPal isn’t the sender […]
Online retailers battling with fraud prevention are losing out on genuine sales by treating their customers like criminals, according to a new report by ThreatMetrix.
Today is World Backup Day, and it goes without saying that backing up data is a thoroughly sensible thing to routinely get into the habit of doing.
Queen Elizabeth has been consulting one of the United Kingdom’s most prominent cybersecurity experts, leading to speculation the Royal Family may be seeking protection from hackers and spies.
Did thinking the most secure password takes out the best of you?? And, still, it seems that it is not sufficient. Your first crush’s name might appear safe to you, but is it?? If your computer is ever attacked or hacked, then it could be going against a supercomputer that could perform more than a trillion guesses […]
Microsoft has finally rolled out the Spartan browser as an official release. This is one of the most anticipated features of Windows 10. Project Spartan is being hailed as a lightweight web browser which aims at providing an enhanced browsing experience to the Windows 10 users. Microsoft has released one more Windows 10 build i.e. […]
In a latest video footage from Anonymous, the notorious hacker group, a masked individual appears in a suit and delivers a well-structured statement announcing a possible attack on Israel’s online servers on April 7. The operation will be carried out under the famous banner of OpIsrael. The video features pictures of distraught Palestinian children and the […]