TikTok, the third busiest app in 2019, is undergoing a rigorous study on user privacy, censorship of politically conflicting content and national security considerations – but it’s not the end, as the safety of billions of TikTok users will now be in the discussion. A well-known Chinese viral video sharing application contained potentially dangerous vulnerabilities […]
As Apple promised in August this year, the company finally launched a bug bounty program for all security researchers, offering cash prizes to anyone who reported vulnerabilities in iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, and iCloud to society. Since its launch three years ago, Apple’s bug bounty program was open only to invited security researchers and […]
HackerOne is one of the most important vulnerability reporting platforms, so it has access to large amounts of information, although sometimes that information can be exposed. According to ethical hacking specialists, the platform had to pay more than $20k USD after mistakenly handing over improper access to an external actor, as per a report published […]
A security issue discovered by security research company SafeBreach in Kaspersky Secure Connection, which itself is bundled into a range of other Kaspersky security products, allowing malicious attackers to obtain privilege escalation and code execution. The security vulnerability numbered CVE-2019-15689 details the vulnerability, which allows a hacker to run an unsigned executable file (DLLs) as […]
The research particularly names India, China, and Kazakhstan for using Internet censorship as a tool to curb freedom of expression and how the new AI tool can help people in these countries to evade censorship. Internet censorship, basically, is a very effective strategy used by dictatorial governments to limit access to information available online for […]
We have already seen AI algorithms creating animations of people that don’t exist, predicting crop growth, analyzing user actions for serving ads, and so on. Now, one thing that humans have always wanted is something that can predict the future. Well, we haven’t been even remotely close to that dream. Still, intelligent minds across the […]
There have been multiple attempts at inventing something similar to Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak but Canada-based researchers’ ‘Quantum Stealth’ could be the closes technology to it. A Canadian company named HyperStealth Biotechnology Corp has invented a new light-bending material dubbed “Quantum Stealth” that can hide objects of different sizes. In a news release, the company […]
Humans can detect one trillion different smells, no wonder it is often considered one of the most powerful senses of the body. A group of researchers at Google want to harness that supernatural power through AI. The Google Brain Team is now training AI to recognize the smell of items based on their molecular structure. […]
Over the years, there has been an exponential increase in the WiFi speeds all over the globe. However, the high speeds come at the cost of range. All the modern WiFis use the 802.11n version which enables users to use the 5Ghz spectrum. While it provides relentless speeds, WiFi range is a big problem with […]
We are way past the cryptocurrency boom that made Bitcoin one of the world’s fastest-growing currencies. One of the downsides of Bitcoin is that mining a single Bitcoin requires a large amount of energy and thus it bumps the amount of carbon dioxide released in the process. According to a report by IEEE Spectrum, processing […]
Geolocation Spy (GeoSpy) is an OSINT analysis and research tool, which allows people to track and execute intelligent social engineering attacks in real time. It was created with the aim of teaching the world how large Internet companies could obtain confidential information such as the status of sessions of their websites or services and control […]
Researchers linked multiple Cyber-espionage campaigns across Asia to the threat actor group PKPLUG. The group uses its PlugX malware and the number of additional payloads in the campaign. The group primarily targets Southeast Asia regions such as particularly Myanmar, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Indonesia and other parts of Asia such as Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia. Based […]
Attackings of technology businesses in Southeast Asia by a suspected Chinese threat actor employ a version of the open-source PcShare backdoor, safety scientists in BlackBerry Cylance warn. The attackers also used a Trojan-made screen reader application, which replaces the built-in Windows “Easy Access” narrator function, mainly gaining distant control over the infected systems without the […]
A cybersecurity researcher recently published details and proof-of-concept for an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL and MariaDB databases. phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB that’s widely used to manage the database for websites created with WordPress, Joomla, and many […]
Email-based cyber attacks have become common these days. I am not the only one receiving emails saying that the file in the attachment contains data that I might be interested in knowing. Social engineering has become one of the major tools attackers use to lure targets into opening links or attachments. A report by Proofpoint […]
Out of all aspects of human life, death is one thing that’s inevitable and all of us move one step closer to it every day. But having an idea about when you’ll make an exit has its pros and cons. You can plan everything in advance so that your family remains safe and sound after […]
Video buffering can be annoying. And it becomes unbearable when a Netflix episode stops every few seconds or gets ridiculously pixilated. But a few MIT researchers have good news for everyone running a shared slow Internet connection. Recently, researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a tool that analyses video […]
Amongst privacy enthusiasts, the Tor network is a popular means to browse the internet anonymously. However, time and again, vulnerabilities have been found in the Tor network that allow hackers to exploit it. A new study has revealed that a hacker or a nation-sponsored bad actor can degrade the performance of the Tor network for […]
Yeah, I know it doesn’t sound right, but this is what researchers have come up with. At the ongoing Black Hat conference in the USA, security researchers showed a weird method to hack Apple’s Face ID biometric system. The hack involves a pair of glasses with tape on them, fooling the Attention Detection feature of […]
According to a study by OpenSignal, Samsung phones have high LTE speeds when stacked against iPhones and Huawei phones. OpenSignal, an independent global standard, analyzed over 23 million devices from across 72 countries from April to June in 2019. One of the main conclusions of the study is that Samsung users experienced the fastest download […]
Microsoft launched Azure Security Lab, a set of dedicated cloud hosts for researchers to confidently and aggressively test Azure vulnerabilities. Azure is a cloud computing service used by several organizations for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services. The Microsoft Azure is previously known as Windows Azure. To make Azure exceptionally secure, Microsoft enhanced […]