If you are using WhatsApp and have got a text message asking you to click a link in order to start using WhatsApp’s so-called voice calling service, do yourself a favor and DO NOT click it. Just delete it. Researchers have found out that it is actually cyber criminals and scammers using the popular messaging service to spread […]
Don’t be Fooled – ‘Thank You for Purchasing ‘ Email Delivers Malware. Inboxes all over the world have been hit by another wave of spam emails. This time the modus operandi involves a sequence of “order notification” emails having the subject line “Thank You for Purchasing.” The email claims that your order is currently being […]
It was during a Frisbee game with a friend in Santa Cruz (USA), when the Don McPherson discovered inadvertently that one of his creations was able to correct the colorblindness in people. Creators often stumble upon their greatest and most innovative inventions accidentally such as potato chips and stainless steel. Same thing occurred recently at a […]
The US Department of Justice has charged three men with what is being described as “one of the largest reported data breaches in US history,”
how is 2015 shaping up in security? We caught up with ESET security specialist Mark James to get his take on threats, security and how people should ensure their year is free of malware.
A 27-year-old graduate student Mohammad Yousefi, was sent to prison in Iran as part of a crackdown on social media users by using “Black Spider” trapping project. Former Green activist Mohammad Yousefi has quietly been held in detention for two months. Detention is under control of Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a case is also […]
A number of seemingly unconnected Western websites were hacked over the weekend, with messages claiming Islamic State as the perpetrator.
An attempt to silence feminism blog Femsplain backfires on DDoS attackers, as they only help to raise its profile.
Summary: The university of Chicago was hacked – The officials got to know in January 2015 that social security numbers and other sensitive information was compromised. The university of Chicago was under a massive cyber attack where unknown hackers breached into the computer networks stealing person details of staff and students. According to reports the duration and exact […]
National Crime Agency, a London based law enforcement agency, has arrested as many as 56 individuals over the last week for various cybercrimes. Among the arrested lot was a 23-year-old male for breaching the satellite communications systems of the US Department of Defense on 15 June 2014. The hacker had leaked “non-confidential contact information” of […]
Have you received TEXT messages about Gift from Amazon? Beware it might be malware. Have you recently received a text message on your phone that says, “Hey [ABC], I am sending you $200 Amazon Gift Card You can Claim it here”? It asks you to redeem your Amazon gift card by installing an APK file […]
Could a toy teach coding? Are we moving towards having Programming Languages in Kindergarten? Technology has advanced at every level. Now geeks are targeting the very roots of society. Different toys have been helping children learn basics. Abacus teaching mathematics; digital toys teaching alphabets and of course building blocks. It is certainly tough to describe […]
A well-known figure known as the radio voice of Anonymous, LoraxLive, Adam Bennet who had also been arrested last year when he was found guilty of computer crimes, will eventually come to find out on March 11 about what exactly he had been charged with. It had been expected that this will take place this […]
The online hacktivist AnonGhost is on a hacking spree with targeting websites of top law enforcement agencies in the United States. A couple of days ago the hacktivists hacked the official website of Larimer County Sheriff’s Office not once but twice in a week. Today, the same group has hacked and defaced the official website of state […]
The U.S Department of Justice announced that there has been the largest data breach in the history of U.S done by two Vietnamese men, one of whom who has pleaded guilty, as they hacked eight U.S email service providers and stole 1 billion email addresses along with other classified information. In a statement given by […]
FREAK’s man-in-the-middle attacks are the result of the security mistakes made 20 years ago. Initially, it was thought that Windows machines are immune from the FREAK encryption flaw but a couple of days ago it was revealed that it isn’t the case. This SSL and TLS security hole isn’t just in Apple and Android, FREAK […]
uTorrent is secretly installing Epic Scale Bitcoin Mining Software on users’ computer to get some bucks – They claim it’s a distributed computing platform, but that’s not true. When you hear the word uTorrent it should remind you of piracy, downloading movies, music or books, but today the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent is in the news for some other reason and […]
According to the UK authorities, 56 hackers have been arrested across England, Wales and Scotland with accusations of carrying out anti-cybercrime operations. UK’s National Crime Agency arrested these 56 hackers as a part of their “strike week” to curb the cyber crime menace. These arrests were made as a result of 25 operations and the […]
Microsoft has revealed that Windows is vulnerable to a critical Freak SSl Flaw. Freak is a security bug that facilitates cybercriminals to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on connections like Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) that are encrypted by an outdated cipher. And Freak has claimed another potential victim, this time the Microsoft Secure Channel […]
Tor users will now have to enter their phone number in order to make a new account on Twitter. Last week, Twitter announced its plans to start tracking bothersome users through their mobile numbers. To implement these changes, the social networking website is pushing Tor users, an anonymous web browser, to provide their phone number […]
In order make its product more helpful, Facebook updated its tool to report suicidal posts. Facebook claims that this tool will make it easy to report a person if he is having any kind of suicidal tendency. You can report a friend’s suicidal post and that friend will be provided help using different measures. Today, I am going […]