The world renowned Lenovo Computer manufacturing company has been shipping laptops prepackaged with malware that makes you more vulnerable to hackers — all for the sake of serving you advertisements. To get rid of this malware Microsoft has released a signature update for Windows Defender to detect and remove Superfish malware installed on some Lenovo PCs. […]
A 51 year old man is facing a lengthy prison sentence in the United Kingdom after admitting to a series of distributed denial of service attacks against social housing, social services and crime prevention websites.
The online queuing system for the 40,000 tickets to the Burning Man festival was hacked by 200 people accessing a ‘technical backdoor’ to virtually queue jump, according to Computer World.
This post is for so many of the people in the community asking for and having problems installing Kali Linux. Here is a guide to getting started with Kali Linux. First of all, there are two ways to install and use Kali Linux, a complete installation, or in some Virtual Box like VMware or Virtual […]
Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, the same Lizard Squad who shutdown PSN and Xbox Live last Christmas making the holidays one living hell for games. Now the Lizard Squad hacked and defaced the official domain of Google Vietnam yesterday. After an investigation it was revealed that DNS infrastructure of Google name servers (ns1.google.com, — ns2.google.com) to CloudFlare (173.245.59.108, 173.245.58.166). The OpenDNS reported that […]
A Saudi based “oppressed defenders” hacking group has taken down the online banking domain of Arab National Bank, early Monday. The cyber attack on ANB bank is part of the ongoing Operation Saudi in which hacker had vowed to attack Saudi based financial institutions until the end of human rights violations in the kingdom. In an exclusive conversation with […]
New Android malware transforms your Phone into a Spy while it is Off – New Android Malware threat has been discovered by prominent security firm AVG. It is called PowerOffHijack and has a very distinct feature: it compromises the Android device’s shutdown process and spies on you. Your phone will appear switched off to you […]
With the recent reports making media headlines about how the NSA and GCHQ have compromised millions of SIM keys manufactured by Gemalto, a Dutch company, one needs to be aware of the security measures that could be adopted to keep their smartphones reasonably protected safe if not unassailable. There are technologies to assist in phone […]
Kris Jenner is reportedly being blackmailed over a naked video that was stolen from her iCloud and could be released in the public sphere.
[Updated] A recent update in the instant messaging app WhatsApp has rolled out the WhatsApp voice calling feature to everyone. Now, Whatsapp has released the voice-calling feature for all Android users. To activate this feature, you’ll need version 2.11.561. from the Play Store or visit Whatsapp website for the version 2.12.7. WhatsApp is the world’s most […]
Women Stalked by Security Guards via CCTV – “Sleaze File” contains images of pretty women Five security guards of a high-profile shopping complex in Australia followed attractive women roaming around in the mall using surveillance cameras. Guards zoomed-in on them and also captured invasive images of the female customers. These images were later stored in a […]
The US surveillance agency, National Security Agency (NSA) along with its British counterpart the Government Communications (GCHQ) has compromised one of the largest SIM card manufacturer’s system to steal millions of encryption keys since 2010, according to a report published in The Intercept. Encryption keys are used to activate and encrypt communications between a user’s […]
Researcher dedicated to debunking hoaxes and exposing scams, have discovered a phishing scam doing rounds on the Facebook. It comes as a “Copyright Violation” message, supposedly from the Facebook Support Team and asks the users to click on a link to verify the page. It warns that failure to verify within 48 hours may result […]
It is somewhat a proven fact that Computer & Internet have brought a new era of productivity into the human life in a number of aspects. That being said, the same computers and internet connectivity options seem to become one of the notable reasons for distraction – especially when it comes to companies that provide […]
Firefox browser from Mozilla is one of the most popular web browsers available. It has a big user base and market share. Mozilla developers are constantly making important changes to make Mozilla faster. Apart from this, Mozilla is doing some strategic changes as well. On the financial front, it has been testing different default search engines […]
With so many data breaches happening these days, Americans are getting a lot of breach notification letters and emails, but do they deliver useful, readable content, other than a general warning to remain vigilant?
About a month ago, to my embarrassment, I learned that my Wi-Fi password was so weak that even my 10 year old neighbour could crack it… No, not really. A little Disclaimer – The contents of this post are solely for ethical and educational purposes. You may not use it for unethical purposes. The Author […]
Lenovo’s installation of a security-breaking app called Superfish on some computers has customers justifiably angry, but some folks are now unnecessarily confused by false positive detection.
Lenovo has issued a public apology, admitting it “messed up badly” by selling laptops with a controversial tracking software pre-installed.
Short Bytes: People are often confused between two terms: hackers and cyber criminals. In this article, I’m sharing a video that tells you the difference between these two. Cyber crime occurs when breaking into the private worlds of people, these bad hackers start to misuse the information for their own benefit and loss of others. […]
Lenovo, the World’s largest PC maker, had pre-installed a virus-like software which makes the computer vulnerable to the hacking attacks. These laptops were recently shipped with a controversial software, known as Superfish, which was billed as a free “visual search” tool to find products online by scanning images and thus presenting similar products. This software […]