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It seems security breaches have not just become common, but prevalent throughout society. Between allegations of hacking into voting systems, and then into the most influential social media platforms, digital security has never been more critical. Users and businesses alike must do all they can to protect their data. Top Security Breaches in 2018 There […]
Mozilla has announced that it will be launching an experimental feature in the new version of Firefox that will offer ProtonVPN subscriptions. The feature, however, will be accessible by users only after they subscribe for a monthly package. It is basically, a subscription-based VPN (virtual private network) that will cost $10 per month. The new […]
If you want to increase conversions and sales, a good place to start is to make it as easy as possible for them to pay for your services or products. If your checkout page isn’t easy to use, it won’t matter how good your products or services are. Your checkout page is where they get […]
Third-party developers abusing Microsoft Apps store & publish fake Google Photos App under the Google LLC name but it is originally an Ad clicker which is running in the back round of the windows system. It’s a completely malicious app that performs various unwanted actvities once installed on the victim’s machine. It Seems developers managed to […]
Fitmetrix is a fitness company that builds fitness tracking software for the gym, studios that track heart rate and other fitness metrics. The company exposed a passwordless database hosted on AWS contains millions of customer records such as name, gender, email address, birth date, home and work phone, height, weight and much more. The huge […]
Google Maps is full of surprises, primarily thanks to some of its funniest, creepiest, and strangest street view images. In 2013, a father found his son’s dead body image and crime scene on Google Maps but who could have imagined this seemingly harmless technology would force a married couple to divorce? A woman in Peru was […]
This is the first in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and business ramifications of the modern internet where […]
Dream Market Drug Vendor arrived in the US to participate in a beard competition in Texas. A Dark Web drug dealer has received 240 months or 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the crimes of laundering money and possessing controlled substances with the intention of distributing them. The convict, Gal Vallerius, is […]
Tenable Research’s cybersecurity researcher has released “By The way,” which is a new PoC (proof-of-concept) RCE attack after identifying a new attack method to exploit an already discovered vulnerability in MikroTik routers. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-14847, is an old directory traversal flaw, which was patched the same day it was detected in April, 2018. […]
Suppose you write for a living. You write articles and blog posts for a number of clients. In the course of that writing, you have to do a lot of research, accessing data and information from all over the web. The inevitable happens. You get hacked or you pick up a virus. Fortunately, you use […]
The DNS or Domain Name System is one of the most necessary components for the internet functionality. Most often, the internet businesses are negligent to the security of their digital identity that is the DNS. This poor security of DNS makes it vulnerable to many cyber attacks which are beneficial for the attackers. Fortunately, an […]
Hacker Cancels Plan to Live Stream Deletion of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Account. It was just yesterday when Facebook announced that it was hacked after attackers exploited a vulnerability in its View As feature and gained access to over 50 million accounts. Now, a well-known hacker from Taiwan, Chang Chi-yuan made headlines for a rather intriguing […]
Firefox has joined hands with Have I Been Pwned for this project. Mozilla introduced a new service earlier this year called Firefox Monitor, and now the company is adding a new feature to this service. The newly added feature will take scrutiny to a whole new level by allowing users to sign up for getting […]
There is little doubt that technology has influenced people’s lives in many ways. Not only are you more likely to have a mobile phone in your pocket, but you are also likely to use the internet many times per day. While technology has brought a lot of great ideas to business and the way people […]
If you are a VPN user it is time to come out from the myth that every VPN is here to secure your privacy. Internet censorship is on the rise, and data from Freedom on the Net, based on an annual assessment of the situation of Internet freedom in 65 countries, reveals that not only […]
Ruslans Bondars, 38, sentenced 14 years in Jail for running Malware Scanning Service “Scan4you” that helps for malware authors to scan their malware to find whether it would be detected by any other Anti-Virus software. Ruslans, a Man who resided in Latvian has been arrested for running illegal Anti-Virus operation called “Scan4you,” in this year may […]
It is quite unlikely that somebody would be naïve enough to upload a copy of a newly released movie on his Facebook page with his real name since this would lead the law enforcement straight to the person, that too, in no time. However, it seems that there is one such person and his name […]
A huge customer database with 11 million records that containing personal details such as email, full name, gender and physical address exposed online. The data to be available from the unprotected MongoDB instance and it is open for anyone to access it. Security researcher Bob Diachenko discovered the database containing 43.5GB large dataset with 10.999.535 […]
There is good news for pro-anonymity web users who rely upon the Tor browser for using the internet. The first ever mobile browser app for the Tor browser has been released by the Tor Project, the organization behind the Tor network. The mobile version of the Tor browser is available for download at the Google […]
Hackers uploaded a collection of 42 million Email Address , plain text passwords, Spotify details, and partial credit card data to free anonymous hosting service Kayo.moe. The operators of the service Kayo reached out to the security expert Troy Hunt to report the data and for further investigation. Kayo shared 755 files totaling 1.8GB. According […]
Europe has just passed new copyright laws that could change the Internet as we know it European Parliament legislators have approved new rules that could force Google and Facebook to prohibit their users from uploading copyrighted content and share revenues with writers and musicians. The vote in the EU Parliament is a big setback for Big Tech […]