Story of a Facebook message that’s Actually a Phishing Scam – Opening ‘Wat are u Doing in This Video’ isn’t what You supposed to Do Now this can be termed as the new wave of phishing scams on Facebook. A message has been circulating via Facebook’s personal messaging system, which appears to be sent by a […]
Midlothian Village, Illinois, Police Department became the target of ransomware having file-encryption capabilities and hence, the department had to give in to the demands of the hackers for retrieving sensitive police records. It happened in January when a department member opened a compromised email pointing to the malicious software. However, this is not an entirely […]
Indian government has banned the third-party email services in its government offices including Google, Yahoo, Hotmail etc. Indian government officials will now be having pretty much limited access to internet in their offices. Apart from the limited internet, they will be additionally monitored and the content which will be inappropriate for productivity of the officials, […]
Parents nowadays must be receiving an email alert that claims “a child predator has moved to your neighborhood.” As per the content of this email, parents are informed that a child predator has moved into their neighborhood recently. The recipient is asked to click on a link to receive more information about the predator. The […]
You will be surprised to know that Facebook employees can access your personal Facebook account without your account credentials. This information was provided by Facebook telling about the employees who can see your private content and the situations when they can do it. This was made public when Paavo Siljamäki, director at the record label […]
After garnering praise from the users and two acclaimed releases, the Ubuntu Mate Linux distribution has now become an official Ubuntu flavor just like Kubuntu, Ubuntu Kylin, and Xubuntu. This is the first addition to Ubuntu family since 2013 with Ubuntu Kylin. Ubuntu MATE is stable and this official build release on Ubuntu MATE Alpha2 […]
Usually police is known for catching criminals but the Crewe police department (CPD) from State of Virginia is making news for some other and somehow funny reasons. On February 17 at 10:34pm, the social media page of CPD posted an update asking if someone mistakenly dropped their cocaine at a Super Dollar store, if yes then contact us […]
Short Bytes: To convert your phone into a remote mouse, all you need is to install a small app Remote Mouse on your smartphone and follow some small instructions to do that. There are free and paid pro versions of Remote Mouse, but currently the paid version is being offered for free. Let us suppose you […]
Facebook has announced that it paid out $1.3 million last year to ‘white hat’ hackers, as part of a bounty initiative that rewards developers for spotting flaws in the social network.
WhatsApp banned by Brazilian Judge—Wants the app to contribute in Police Investigations. Luiz de Moura Correia, the Judge from the state of Piauí, has put a ban on the popular mobile messaging app WhatsApp in Brazil. He took this decision to force the owners of this app to cooperate with the State Police in their […]
An Australian Anonymus hacker indicted for Australian intelligence websites’ revenge hacking – The accused has connections to the infamous Anonymous Online Collective The News: Anonymous Indonesian said to be involved in attacking numerous private Australian businesses and intelligence’ websites in 2014. In a recent advancement into this matter it has been learnt that an alleged Melbourne-based member of […]
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Whopping $3 Million Bounty offered by FBI for Evgeniy Bogachev. The FBI and the U.S. State Department announced the highest ever bounty of $3 million on Tuesday for info leading to the capture or conviction of alleged Russian Hacker Evgeniy Bogachev. This amount is the highest offered by U.S authorities in any cyber case. A […]
Hello everyone! In my last blog post, I wrote about how to disable the auto-play videos on Facebook. After asking about the problems you people face in day-to-day lives, I received a variety of messages from you asking different things. Today, I chose to write about how to find your android device which is lost […]
Yesterday Canonical released Ubuntu 14.04.2 which is the second point release of the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS series. Just like every other point release, Ubuntu 14.04.2 brings more hardware supports updates and a number of security updates. This enables you to continue the Ubuntu 14.04 installs on new PCs and leave behind the worries of post-installation […]
The Ramnit botnet that is said to have affected 3.2 million computers has been shut down by European police.
Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo has been victim to a website hack, with Lizard Squad claiming responsibility.
Shocking acceleration in the use of Cyberweapons between Iran and the U.S against each other has been revealed in a newly released National Security Agency document. This document was prepared for the then director of the NSA Gen. Keith B. Alexander in April 2013. As per the illustration in this document, Iran and the US […]
Your MAC can be purloined and your user account and password can be bypassed by nefarious individuals for accessing personal data, wiping your system clean and becoming its owner. So how can you prevent it? Don’t get paranoid; two remedies are available for preventing intruders from taking over your MAC. 1. Use a software-based encryption […]
The official website of world’s largest PC maker was hacked earlier Wednesday allegedly by Lizard Squad. Hackers left a deface page containing slideshow images of a teen along with “Breaking Free” from High School musical as page’s background. This is probably the worst time for Lenovo to have their site hacked amid SuperFish Malware scandal where the company […]
Isis supporter compromised Chile’s Ministry of Defense website on Monday night and left a message “Hacked” on its homepage, www.ssdefensa.cl, along with the username “Saddam Hussein.” The hacker’s message said, “Sorry Admin Because Your Site Security is Low WE aRe ISIS,” in English, whereas in Spanish the message read, “Somos ISIS, no me olviden” (We […]