Short Bytes: To own a copy of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), you need to purchase a license. However, if you are a developer, Red Hat has introduced a program that’ll let you own a copy free-of-cost. Read more and know how to get a free license of RHEL. If you wish to get involved […]
Bitcoin’s Secure Wallet Service Coinkite Inc. Closing Down due to never-ending DDoS Attacks and Governmental Nagging Bitcoin exchanges around the world face cyber attacks every now and then, some owners give up while some fight back. In the case of Bitcoin startup Coinkite Inc., it is now officially announced that its secure wallet service, which […]
Short Bytes: The results of Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 indicate that more and more programmers are switching to OS X. While Linux-based operating systems are witnessing a decline, Windows 10 has shown great performance at the expense of Windows 7. If we take a look at the numbers, Apple’s OS X and Linux stand […]
Crook stole $22 million via online payments company. Gareth David Long, 37, a British man living in Las Vegas, USA, was indicted by a Nevada grand jury on 39 charges of wire fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. Long’s criminal activity started in 2008 when he founded V Internet Corp LLC, a third-party payments processing […]
Short Bytes: Microsoft has released a Debian Linux-based OS for network switches and routers. The software is called SONiC — Software for Open Networking in the Cloud. This fully open source toolkit will alllow you to take control of the networking hardware and overcome the limitations of network devices. Microsoft is moving fast and fiery on […]
ProofPoint uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe targeting Indian diplomatic and military entities. A new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe is targeting diplomats and military personnel in India. The researchers at Proofpoint who have uncovered the hacking campaign confirmed that threat actors used a number of hacking techniques to hit the […]
Short Bytes: To answer your security related concerns, Subgraph OS is here as a free, secure, open source Linux operating system for the non-technical users. This security-focused distro comes with complete TOR integration, full-disk encryption, OpenPGP mail integration, system hardening and other features. Know more about the OS and make your system secure. In the recent […]
The survey shows Americans are actually supporting FBI on the iPhone encryption issue. We all know about the heated debate going on between Apple and the FBI regarding weakening of security measures on the iPhone of alleged terrorists involved in the San Bernardino attack so that the agency could access data. We also know that […]
Short Bytes: IoT (Internet of Things) is going to get a major boost in the coming years. 48 hours ago, the Linux Foundation announced the Zephyr Project which will be a small scalable real-time operating system. This operating system will be targeted at resource-constrained systems. Being an open source project, Linux Foundation’s Zephyr will drive […]
In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, now new information are emerging on the operations. Someone believes it was a surgical ops others accuse Feds of dragnet surveillance. In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, at the time the most popular dark web email services. The US law enforcement agency seized the TorMail database during in concomitants of the […]
Russian ISP Eurobyte fails to answer Cisco’s emails, allows malvertising campaign to go on undisturbed. Cisco’s Talos research team has managed to identify and partially shut down a cyber-criminal group that is using the RIG exploit kit to infect users with all kinds of malware. This particular group used a series of security vulnerabilities, but most […]
Short Bytes: In this article, we bring to you a useful Linux infographic that tells you about Debian Linux and its different areas. The infographic lists the different Debian releases and various stages in the development process. Debian has a very rich history as it holds an importance place in the evolution of Linux-based operating systems. […]
Image | fossBytes Short Bytes: OS.js is a free and open source operating system that runs in your web browser. Based on Javascript, this operating system comes with a fully-fledged window manager, ability to install applications, access to virtual filesystems and a lot more. Read more to know about the OS in detail. Did you ever […]
Anonymous is known for conducting cyber attacks against injustice but not every operation makes it to the news — There are several ongoing ops which the readers should know about. There are some campaigns which Anonymous collective has been running and are hardly ever noticed by anyone. Most of the readers only know the famous […]
Edward Snowden has been offering advice on operational security to ordinary people, advocating, among other things, two-factor authentication and encryption.
It’s time to Pull your Money Out of the Banks- Suggests the Online Hacktivist Group — Anonymous Takes Hacktivism to Another Level. The online hacktivist group Anonymous known for targeting government servers has now shifted its focus on the financial and banking sectors. Using its conventional approach, the group announced the launching of its latest campaign […]
Group used Angler Exploit kit to push ransomware on unsuspecting Internet users. Security researchers have disrupted an online criminal operation they estimated drew $30 million per year pushing ransomware on unsuspecting people browsing the Internet. The takedown was performed by investigators from Cisco Systems’ Talos security unit, which was researching the Angler Exploit kit. The hack-by-numbers […]
Operation Pony Express was a spear-phishing campaign that was detected by Sophos researchers between April and May 2015. The research team identified that the malware was spread through a common MS Word vulnerability Now, Sophos, a cyber-security firm revealed that an inherent vulnerability in the MS Word Intruder kit was being distributed actively at $140 […]
Crucial information held by some of the most senior ministers of David Cameron (including Home Secretary Theresa May) has possibly landed in the hands of extremists- claims Intelligence agency GCHQ It was identified in an investigative report from the GCHQ that the so-called Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) group have collaborated to steal sensitive information held by David Cameron’s […]
In April, ESET’s Laboratory in Latin America received a report on an executable program named “Liberty2-0.exe.” Now, it asks is there a version 1.0?
Anonymous hacked several Chinese government websites including the Hunan (a province in China) Police Academy website in solidarity with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. The hacker behind this hack goes with the handle of @AnonymousGlobo on Twitter, who has been involved in several cyber attacks on different websites in past. AnonymousGlobo left a deface page along with a message […]