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4 Cybersecurity Risks We willl Face With New WhatsApp Status Update

Following in the strides of Snapchat and Instagram,hike, Facebook-claimed WhatsApp declared the dispatch of “Status,” another component that is intended to give clients a chance to share recordings, photographs, and GIFs that lapse every day. The Status expansion to WhatsApp is basically indistinguishable to the “Stories” highlight in Instagram and Snapchat, both of which permit […]

Google and Bing Are About to Make it Harder to Find Illegal Content Online

Google and Microsoft have vowed changes to their web indexes which will make life harder for Users looking for unlawful, copyrighted material. The parties that signed the deal include search providers Google and Microsoft (Bing), and rights holders Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI). Through the terms of the arrangement, web […]

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ overview – behavioral analytics

CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CSA+) is a vendor-neutral cyber security certification that applies behavioral investigation to enhance the general condition of IT security. The CompTIA CSA+ certification will offer a wide range of information and abilities required to configure and utilize cyber-threat observation tools, perform data analysis and decipher the outcomes to recognize vulnerabilities, threats, and […]

SMTP Strict Transport Security Comming soon for Gmail and Other Webmail Users

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Comcast are expected to adopt the standard Mail services and implement the SMTP Strict Transport Security following by  Gmail users soon. Elie Bursztein, the head of Google’s anti-abuse research team, said at RSA Conference that SMTP STS will be a major impediment to man-in-the-middle attacks that rely on rogue certificates that […]

PCI DSS Publishes Best practices for securing E-commerce Websites – 2017

E-commerce refers to buy and sell of products or potentially benefits by means of electronic channels, for example, the Internet. E-commerce business was initially presented in the 1960s by means of an electronic information trade (EDI) on the value included systems. PCI Security Standards The PCI Security Standards Council is a worldwide open body framed […]

Your Heart Beat As a Password -Smart or Stupid ?

Scientists from the Binghamton University in New York have explored with using a person’s heartbeat as a password for encrypting and then decrypting personal data. Researchers say that each person possesses a unique electrocardiograph (ECG), which just like fingerprints and iris, can be used for authentication. Binghamton researchers say that systems can be created that […]

Adobe & Microsoft released New Critical Security updates for software installed on hundreds of millions of devices

Technology giants Adobe, Microsoft  Tuesday each released security updates and issued an upgrade for Flash Player and for Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft discharged only four updates to connect around 15 security gaps to Windows and related programming. From now and into the foreseeable future, a portion of the information focuses right now in the individual overhauls will be lumped […]

Bitcoin Value Climbs more than $1000 in 2017

Bitcoin Value Climbs more than $1000 in 2017 for the first time in last three years. At 09:00, the BPI( Bitstamp Price Index) saw bitcoin reach $1006.32 before an expanded time of exchanging saw value surge to $1021.88 an hour later. What is Bitcoin and how it works Bitcoin is an advanced money that is […]

Encrypt and password protect your Gmail message in a click

Email Encryption is the process of Encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can able to access it. In an encryption scheme, the intended information or message, referred to as plaintext, is encrypted using an encryption algorithm, generating ciphertext that can only be read if decrypted. Encryption make’s sure that your […]

Evolution of TLS1.3 – Enhanced security and speed

Evolution of TLS1.3 – Enhanced security and speed: As 2016 comes to close and we are preparing for a new year, it’s time to implement TLS 1.3. TLS 1.3 Design Concluded The biggest practical development in cryptography for 2016 is Transport Layer Security version 1.3. TLS is the most important and widely used cryptographic protocol and it […]