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The existence of malware is hardly a new thing. In the last few years, however, the more malicious trend of ransomware has become more and more common. PewDiePie, the famous Swedish Youtuber, is no stranger to controversy. This time he is in the news again for the wrong reason after a user, who claims to […]
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In a first-of-its-kind ransomware attack in Lucknow, cybercriminals breached and blocked the computer system of The Piccadily, a five-star hotel in the capital of Uttar Pradesh, and demanded a ransom to allow data access. Ransomware is a malware unleashed into the system by a hacker that blocks access to owners till ransom is paid. The hotel […]
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There are new vulnerabilities discovered with the 4G network used by smartphones. South Korean researchers discovered 36 new flaws using a technique called ‘fuzzing’. It turns out that our mobile networks may not be the safest. As LTE gets ready to make way for 5G, researchers have discovered several flaws in the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) […]
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There are tons of hoaxes constantly doing the rounds on Twitter, including the recent Bitcoin scam. Today, I want to warn you about one that’s taken over the platform over the past couple of days: the “birth year hoax“. It’s as simple as it is stupid: it encourages you to head into your settings and […]
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Firefox 66.0.1 Released with Fix for Critical Security Vulnerabilities that discovered via Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative. The vulnerability affects all the versions of Firefox below 66.0.1. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take complete control over the target system of the process. CVE-2019-9810: Incorrect alias information Incorrect alias information with IonMonkey JIT compiler […]
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The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is activating a Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) to Mozambique to lead the U.S. Government’s response to Cyclone Idai, which has caused catastrophic flooding, killed hundreds of people, and affected hundreds of thousands of others in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. The US Federal Emergency Management Agency exposed 2.3 […]
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Sir John Colfox Academy, in Bridport, was the target of hackers, believed to be from China, after a member of staff mistakenly opened an email that contained virus and infected the school’s entire computer network. The email claimed to be from a teacher at another Dorset school. Hackers seized pupil’s GCSE courework of the secondary […]
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Facebook said there is no evidence its employees abused access to this data. The company said the passwords were stored on internal company servers, where no outsiders could access them. However, privacy experts suggested that users change their passwords. The security slip left the passwords readable by the social networking giant’s employees. The issue was […]
Continue ReadingMassive IMAP-based password-spraying attacks successfully breached Microsoft Office 365 and G Suite accounts, circumventing multi-factor authentication (MFA) according to an analysis by Proofpoint. As noted by Proofpoint’s Information Protection Research Team in a recent report, during a “recent six-month study of major cloud service tenants, Proofpoint researchers observed attackers are targeting legacy protocols with stolen […]
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Facebook has said that a “server configuration change” was to blame for the worst outage in its history. Facebook and its apps Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp suffered outages for a considerable time on Thursday, affecting users for some 12 hours in most areas of the world, with the biggest impact in North America and […]
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