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With the ongoing conflict in Eurasia, cyberwarfare is inevitably making its presence felt. The fight is not only being fought on the fields. There is also a big battle happening in cyberspace. Several cyber-attacks have been reported over the past months. Notably, cyber attacks backed by state actors are becoming prominent. There have been reports […]
Open the Internet and your screen will be flooded with hacking news and exploits carried out through the use of sophisticated techniques. It is not uncommon to land on news reports of millions of compromised Internet devices. These stories emerge not merely because of the hacker’s expertise, although this plays a large part. Just as crucial is the lack […]
Phishing attacks are now very common; every one who uses the internet comes across phishing emails almost daily and it seems that most of us have now trained ourselves to identify phishing emails. But have we really turned that clever? Doesn’t it seem, from all the successful phishing attacks that happen against individuals and organizations, […]
Short Bytes: A team of Italian security researchers has created a Windows filesystem add-on named ShieldFS to fight the ransomware attacks. By using techniques like shadowing and copy-on-write, ShieldFS makes sure that an attack is timely stopped and its backup is restored. In the tests, the add-on was able to detect the malware on 97% occasions. The […]
“The Internet is full of pioneers and cowboys. It’s also got its fair share of pirates and trolls.” Piracy is the biggest challenge faced by the software companies and they are coming up with new ways to tackle the issue. One of the biggest examples is Windows by Microsoft who is basically giving away free […]