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Black Friday is an opportunity to grab the best deals and purchase items at discounted prices. Black Friday 2019 is just a day away and many companies have already started its Black Friday deals. For those who want to learn on the internet, Udemy’s Black Friday 2019 sale is an opportunity to grab courses at […]
The cyber security firm Emisoft has released decrypter for Hakbit and Jigsaw ransomware that would unlock your files for free. One day you turn on your PC but instead of being greeted with the standard account login window, you are encountered with an unpleasant message stating: “Your files have been encrypted, follow the instructions below […]
The biggest smartphone maker OnePlus has disclosed a data breach where several users’ information was “accessed by an unauthorized party.” The data breach targeted the OnePlus online store as hackers gained access to the customer’s past orders. The information exposed might include customer names, email addresses, contact numbers, and shipping addresses. However, OnePlus has confirmed […]
People often make a great effort to protect their credit/debit card details against fraudulent transactions. This has been further helped by banks implementing increased security with the help of two-factor authentication( 2FA). However, there’s this one instance where even 2FA doesn’t save you. Imagine someone replaces a legitimate payment page with a fraudulent one. Once […]
This will be the second time when hackers have targeted T-Mobile in two years. The telecom giant T-Mobile announced on Thursday that it suffered a data breach in which hackers accessed personal information of its prepaid wireless customers. In a statement, the company revealed that data accessed by hackers included names, phone numbers, along with […]
The same flaw lets attackers extract GPS data. A few days ago, HackRead shared a video and reported that the Facebook app was using the camera feature on certain versions of iOS without the user’s permission. Now, it has been discovered that a vulnerability in Google and Samsung’s Camera apps on Android enabled other apps […]
The HackBack hacker is back. The Cayman National Bank has suffered a massive data breach, reportedly, carried out by hacktivist Phineas Fisher also known as HackBack. The hacker published over 2TB of data belonging to the bank’s 1400 customers including roughly 640,000 emails. Almost half of the customers are registered at the Cayman National Bank […]
Recently, a malware by the name of ACbackdoor has been discovered which infects both Windows and Linux based systems. With little to no documentation of its origin, it has capabilities for pretty complex operations which include arbitrary execution of shell commands, updating, arbitrary binary execution, and persistence. Although both of the variants have different backdoor […]
The boundaries of VPN use cases are continuously expanding. Today, VPNs are heavily used by fans of torrent trackers. A hidden IP address enables the user to avoid ISP tracking and keep scammers at bay. Torrenters use a unique technology available to all ages and social statuses. P2P file-sharing offers a fast and convenient method […]
In 2018, the Chinese government barred Chinese security researchers from participating in hacking contests in foreign countries in a bid to keep the knowledge of disclosing software vulnerabilities in China itself. The decision affected popular hacking contests like Pwn2Own that were mostly dominated by Chinese participants. As a response to the ban, the Chinese government […]
If you are using one of the Spectrum compatible routers for your internet needs, one of the most important things that you need to do with it is to secure it. Having your home network completely secure can help you in a variety of ways. For instance, preventing intruders and malware from surfacing on your […]
And that also for doing what they were supposed to do. Iowa – a US state – hired a cyber security company called Coalfire in September to perform penetration testing of certain buildings that involved several courthouses. Doing their duty, two members of the firm, namely Justin Wynn and Gary Demercurio entered the Dallas County, […]
Data of Millions at risk as Leading US IT Firm Failed to Detect Security Breaches for Years. Getting your website hacked is probably your worst nightmare. However, the case of Utah-based tech firm InfoTrax Systems proves that what’s worse is getting your website hacked multiple times successfully. Reportedly, the company could not detect intrusions, which […]
Highly useful and practical as they are, wireless routers can cost us a lot if we fail to secure them properly. It is not only a few cases of hackers, scammers, and even identity theft that keep on appearing in the daily news headlines. Some of these arise out of the poor security set-up some of […]
A spokesperson from the Labour Party in the United Kingdom has confirmed that the party’s digital platforms suffered a massive DDoS attack due to which its security systems were blocked. The attack occurred only a few weeks before the General Elections due on December 12, 2019, however, it is also claimed that none of the […]
If you’re reading this post, you are probably more or less familiar with brand new AMP for Emails technology developed by Google. It turned out that new horizons are opened wide for the commercial email channel. Therefore email marketers don’t have to retrain into plumbers or waiters. However, new skills and knowledge are obviously required […]
Over the past few months, we’ve come across data breaches that are bad for anyone but the bad guys themselves. But just once in a while, we can sit back and rejoice on a breach happening. One such moment occurred a few days ago when membership data from a Pro-Nazi site named Iron March was […]
Platinum, the infamous Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group, has launched a new backdoor trojan named Titanium that has advanced capabilities of taking complete control over the target’s PC. As reported by the Kaspersky Lab researchers, Titanium is capable of hiding in plain sight by disguising itself as a DVD burner software, sound driver, or even […]
A study conducted by the researchers at Vanderbilt University‘s Owen Graduate School of Management analyzed the list of healthcare data breaches by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In the study, it was concluded that hospitals and medical institutions that were impacted by a ransomware attack or data breach witness 36 additional deaths […]
An animal abuse website or otherwise called a “bestiality” platform (whose name will not be shared here as it is not appropriate) has been hacked and as a result, its database containing personal information of registered users has been stolen. The breach took place on September 25th, 2019 and confirmed by Troy Hunt of HaveIbeenPwned […]
Roughly 100 App Developers Retained Unauthorized Access to Group Members’ Data. Another day, another data breach at Facebook – If you are a member of any group on Facebook, chances are that your data could have been compromised, as per the recent revelations made by the social networking giant in its latest blog post. According […]