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When it comes to Cybersecurity news, first world nations almost always take the center stage. When a breach happened in a Silicon Valley-based company, it is a dime-a-dozen for mass media to pick-up the story. Same happens when a small city in an EU-member state had a data breach, the same treatment happens, media firms […]
IBM contacted by Bilal Bot Developer for Publishing Incorrect Details about his Malware. It’s definitely one crazy turn of events. The supposed author of malicious Trojan Bilal Bot has condemned IBM security staff for publishing incorrect information about his malware and even offered his services to correct the write-up. Limor Kessem, the security expert at […]
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 […]
Here are 7 activities that users should avoid doing on the Internet The Internet is a wonderland. It is a place where everything from the birth of the universe to the Miley Cyrus’s twerking is available with just a few clicks of your mouse! If a man from as late as 1980 time traveled to […]
Here are 5 of the most dangerous cyber security vulnerabilities that are exploited by hackers All the major government organizations and financial firms stress upon the issue of cyber security in today’s world. Sensitive data of any company, more so of those that keep largely public data, has been the target of some of the most […]
You may have heard the phrase “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch”. But, most of the people online think downloading from torrent sites is absolutely free and torrent owners are doing favors to the users! Which is too good to be true and a recent study has proved it. According to a […]
Father of Vulnerable Minor Daughter exposed to Sexual Predators on Facebook gets paid an Undisclosed Amount. Facebook was forced to enforce its age restriction policy by a father who claims that his daughter got exposed to online sexual predators on this site at the tender age of 11. Facebook has also managed to settle a […]
UAE, which has been one of major regions of cyber crimes, got a really good new last Friday, when police arrested a gang that was involved in a fraudulent activity of Dh6 billion. The gang was involved in breaching many of the leading company’s accounts. After several days of investigation the Dubai smartly tracked the gang and […]
The internal IT & server system of US Navy is facing 110,000 cyber attacks every hour, 1,833 attacks a minute. According to a report published by HP during an event in Frankfurt, the software and IT security providing company confirms that US Navy is under constant cyber attacks by the hackers from different countries. The official blog post from the US Navy Seals […]
FBI Assistant Director in Charge on Cyber crime branh, along with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has announced that the Beuro has arrested 24 hackers from eight different countries around the world. According to Preet Bharara, ”this was the largest coordinated international law enforcement action in history directed at “carding” crimes—offenses in which the Internet is used to […]
A common man when thinks about cyber terrorism or cyber crime, they think it may be just an illegal activity over some credit cards or online bank accounts, DDOS attacks, hacked social networking website profiles etc but what they do not think is the water running down from the tap, lights inside their home and […]