Earlier yesterday it was reported that the notorious Shadow Brokers hacking group is selling hacking tools which can be used to hack Windows-based devices. Now, it may come as a surprise the group has suddenly decided to quit their operation and give away some of the stolen Windows hacking tools for free. In a goodbye note on […]
Short Bytes: The “helpful” autofill feature of your web browser also poses a big risk to your online security. A security researcher has uncovered a simple exploit that uses form fields hidden from the user to steal the personal information. While Chrome, Opera, and Safari are affected by this issue, Firefox remains immune. The users are advised […]
DragonOK, A China-connected hackers group has updated the tool set. Following the brand new decoy files they are the use of to attack, researchers came to a conclusion that the hacker group is increasing their territory to Russia and Tibet. In advance in September of 2014, a piece of writing is posted on the activities […]
Short Bytes: A hacker has claimed to have breached the content management system used by the FBI. The hacker uses Twitter handle @CyberZeist and claims to have dumped email addresses and hashes on Pastebin. The fbi.gov’s server was hosted on an outdated FreeBSD VM, according to the hacker. A hacker, who operates the Twitter handle […]
Short Bytes: There are many different operating systems around and they have their weaknesses. There’s a long-standing fun write-up that compares operating systems with airlines. It states that if you’re boarding Linux Air, you’ll end up having a great experience. There’s a very famous operating system and airlines analogy that’s been around for a long time. […]
A bot farm involving hundreds of servers and over 570,000 different IP addresses has caused losses for online video advertisers ranging from $3 to $5 million per day. This bot farm, nicknamed Methbot, dates back to September 2015, when US security firm White Ops had first detected signs of automated traffic coming from the crooks’ […]
Short Bytes: Linux and BSD are two open source operating system families inspired by the 20th-century operating system Unix. Several things set the two apart like hardware support, development philosophy, etc. Also, Linux is more popular than BSD. When you start to get out of the Windows ecosystem, the very first thing you see is […]
Short Bytes: A team of developers from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has created a Unix-like operating system for your web browser. It uses a JavaScript-based kernel and extends the JS runtimes for C, C++, Go, and Node.js programs. It also comes with a POSIX-like shell. The modern web browsers are great for playing videos, reading blogs, […]
Short Bytes: There are different extensions like ImprovedTube, FlashStopper, and YouTube Plus using which you can disable autoplay functionality and set default video on streaming website YouTube. Watching YouTube videos is a nightmare if you have a slow connection. As soon as you open a video, it automatically selects a quality and starts downloading the […]
Short Bytes: Finnish company Jolla’s Sailfish OS has been recognized as the official mobile OS by the Russian government. This OS makes use of open source Linux kernel, Jolla’s open source Mer Core UI and other 3rd party proprietary components. We can expect new Sailfish OS devices in the Russian market in 2017. Apart from […]
The famous cyber protection and antivirus company Kaspersky Antivirus has unveiled its own at ease and hack-evidence running gadget- Kaspersky OS. Kaspersky OS is based on micro kernel architecture that allows users to customise their own operating system for this reason. this is depending on a consumer’s precise requirements. It could be designed with the […]
Kaspersky is a security software developer and cyber security firm that is trusted by people globally. So, when the company states that it has created a hack-proof operating system, users are bound to feel overjoyed. Also Read: Facebook Join Forces with Kaspersky to Spot Malware on Computers According to the company’s CEO Eugene Kaspersky, this operating […]
Short Bytes: We’re a little late on reporting the Minoca OS announcement, but only because we’re bringing some exclusive content to our article, so be sure to read on for some new insight into Minoca OS. It’s a general purpose operating system written from the ground up with an intention to conserve power, storage and […]
Short Bytes: Following the unsealed documents recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, it has been known that the FBI ran 23 child porn websites on the darknet. It is contrary to what was revealed earlier, that the FBI only hacked and hosted PlayPen for 13 days to catch pedophiles using NIT. Earlier, it […]
Researcher: FBI was likely enabled to run half of all child porn sites on the servers. As Ars has reported, federal investigators temporarily seized a Tor-hidden site known as Playpen in 2015 and operated it for 13 days before shutting it down. The agency then used a “network investigative technique” (NIT) as a way to ensnare site users. […]
Short Bytes: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team has announced the general availability of FreeBSD 11 open source operating system. This is the first release of the stable/11 branch and it comes with many security improvements and better hardware support. Towards the end of the last month, we reported that the final images of FreeBSD 11 have […]
Short Bytes: Standards are what make my computer able to communicate with yours, they make websites render the same on our respective computers, they allow our computers to interpret a live video feed do that we all see the same thing. But standard extend beyond the sharing of content between two computers, some standards define […]
Misconfigured server led to Encryptor RaaS’ downfall. After law enforcement seized servers belonging to Encryptor RaaS, a Ransomware-as-a-Service cyber-crime portal, the site’s operators decided to close it down for good over the summer and deleted the master decryption key that would have allowed victims to recover their files. This action from the Encryptor RaaS owner […]
A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found them, four people with direct knowledge of the probe told Reuters. The tools, which enable hackers to exploit […]
Short Bytes: With so many online accounts on the internet, it can be tediously difficult to remember all your passwords. Many people write them down or store them in a document, but that’s plain insecure. There are many password managers for Windows and OS X, but here we’ll look at some of the best password […]
Short Bytes: In this article, we have created a list of the top 5 bootable USB tools for Windows operating system. You can create ISO files for different Windows operating systems, Linux distros, and also make Linux Live USB drives. All these bootable USB tools have their advantages and disadvantages. One of the most common methods […]