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Educational Institutions Admit To Spending Little Cash On Cyber Security

Cybercrime is affecting the personal, educational and financial lives of millions of students each year, yet 66% of Indian educational institutions spend just 5 to 15% of their IT budget on securing their systems. With students under significant pressure to hit tight deadlines, many forgo following the cybersecurity advice they know they should be following, […]

The Technology Behind Bitcoin: The Background, Challenges and Regulations

While you might still be hard-pressed to pass someone on the street who truly understands Bitcoin and what it means for the financial world, you’re certainly likely to pass more than one who’s heard of it. In recent months, Bitcoin and its underlying technology is known as the blockchain have stormed the news with talk […]

Most Valuable Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoins that You should know

Bitcoins getting famous day by day, other than bitcoins there are about 710 currencies available for online trade. Here is the list of Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoins. Nowadays a lot of people started us crypto coins, no doubts Bitcoins are the trendsetters. Bitcoins value climb more than $1000 in 2017 January and now it reaches $8,900 […]

Important Considerations for Security Administrators to Guard Against Compromised Credentials

There’s hardly a day that goes by that you don’t hear about an organization who has suffered a security breach, compromised credentials, and an attacker has accessed their sensitive information. Targeted attacks are becoming more frequent, and more successful, and this poses a serious challenge for security administrators everywhere. With 81% of breaches leveraging either […]

Simple and Best Ways to Protect Your Windows Computer From Cyber Attack

Windows is a relatively secure environment, and with the enhancements to Windows Defender on Windows 10, Microsoft is continually improving its security capabilities. That said, however, Windows doesn’t rank very well in terms of the most secure operating systems. Although absolute security is debatable, most experts agree that Linux is a more secure OS than […]

Domain Fronting – A New Technique For Hiding Malware Command and Control (C2) Traffic within a Content Delivery Network

A New Technique called ” Domain Fronting “  allow cybercriminals to hide the command & control Networks Traffic within a CDN. It acts as a mask for  C&C networks and widely used advanced Technique for Malware Evasion. “A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver pages and other Web content […]

Steps to Remotely Access Your Laptop from Mobile

A Remote access can help you in a lot more ways to reduce your time frame. In this super speedy workaholic world of today, you never know which file your boss might ask out for at any moment of the day! If you have that with you, that’s great but what if you have it […]

Total Network Inventory 3: How to Manage Your Network in 4 Steps

Wondering how to get the most out of your network? We’ll help you learn how to utilize TNI 3 in today’s guide! How to Manage Your Network? Total Network Inventory 3 has been used by enterprises for years for network inventory management. And this guide will explain those steps so that you can increase the […]

The debate of Ethereum vs Bitcoin: Can the Ethereum Take the Throne?

Bitcoin has always been the leading cryptocurrency running the show for quite some time now until in the year 2014 when everything changed.  During that year, Ethereum was announced during the North American Bitcoin Conference and since then, it also started gaining popularity and many comparisons between Ethereum vs Bitcoin followed. Many people have had […]

TOP 10 Cyber Attacks and Critical Vulnerabilities of 2017

The year 2017 experienced many sophisticated cyber attacks which have been made a huge impact on the organization as well as individuals. Here we have listed TOP 10 Cyber Attacks and critical Vulnerabilities that was playing the major role in 2017.Ransomware continues to dominate the cybersecurity world. Wannacry Wannacry (WannaCrypt,WanaCrypt0r 2.0,Wanna Decryptor), A Computer Malware […]

Risk with Steganography and Importance of running Steganalysis with Network Systems

Steganography is an art of hiding messages covert way so that exclusive the sender and recipient know the original message. This technique permits sender and receiver to communicate secretly and the third party won’t mindful of the correspondence happen. It replaces bits of unused information into the standard files—graphic, sound, text,video—with some different bits that […]

Undetectable ATM “Shimmers” Hacker’s Latest Tool for Steal your Chip Based Card Details from POS Terminal

Latest warning coming out from Canada about sophisticated ATM skimming called “Shimmers”  targeted chip-based credit and Debit cards to steal your entire card information form POS(Point-of-sale) terminal. Basically many skimming devices record your card information in plain text on the magnetic stripe on the backs of cards. Last Year November ATM based Skimmer has been […]

Finally, Symantec sells of Digital Certificate(SSL) Business to DigiCert Inc

Today Symantec announced that they are to sell Digital certificate(SSL) business to DigiCert Inc for $950 million plus.Problems started from 2015 where Google had issues in Symantec certificate issuance process. Security engineers from Google and Firefox engineers discovered that Symantec misissued around 127 SSL certificates, as the investigation progress this underlying estimation developed to an […]

Google Announces Final Decision in Distrusting Symantec SSL Certificates

Google has made a conclusive decision on the different dates they want to execute as part of the accord plan in distrusting Symantec SSL Certificates. Security engineers from Google and Firefox engineers discovered that Symantec misissued around 127 SSL certificates, as the investigation progress this underlying estimation developed to an outstanding figure of more than 30,000 […]

Google using machine learning to block 99.9% of Malware and Phishing Mails

Google published a blog post introducing machine learning to detect phishing Emails, click-time warnings for malicious links, and unintended external reply warnings. Machine learning has helped Gmail accomplish over 99% accuracy in spam recognition, and with this new security improvements.Google continuously focussing on Security improvements for Gmail users Google continuously focussing on Security improvements for […]

Bitcoin Price Climbs as high as Ever – History Created

Bitcoin Price Climbs as High as Ever reaches $2000 without precedent for history. The cash’s value ascended as much as 2.62% amid the session according to Coindesk’s BPI. The cost has shot up by 60 percent in the course of the most recent month and that has pulled in numerous Indians to this digital money. […]

Microsoft boycott SHA-1 Certificates in Edge and Internet Explorer

[jpshare]The move from having SSL Certificates marked with the SHA-1 hashing algorithm to certificate signed with the SHA-256 set to start in November 2014 to meet refreshed federal and PCI compliance measures. Because of the ever show the necessity to reinforce procedures and strategies prompted the choice that the organizations must move to SHA-2 certificates, […]

OWSAP TOP 10 – 2017 out for public comments

OWSAP presented Release Candidate for Top 10 2017 which add’s two new vulnerabilities categories. Insufficient Attack Detection and Prevention. Underprotected APIs. Changes with 2017 They have combined (A4)Insecure Direct Object References and (A7) Missing Function Level Access Control into 2017(A4) Broken Access Control. 2013-A10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards was the dropped as it’s prevalence in a very […]