Indian, Pakistani hackers indulge in cyber war
As the world was engrossed in the celebration of New Year, hackers from India and Pakistan welcomed the year by indulging in the cyber war. Indian hackers allegedly infected three Pakistan airport...
View ArticleTrump Questions US Intelligence Agencies Over Russia Hacking Review
President-elect Donald Trump has supported Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and doubted on the claims of US intelligence agencies that Russia was involved in cyber attack during the presidential...
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Russia did not hack Vermont electric utility
Recently reports of Russian hackers penetrating U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont went viral, much before the investigation into the case could begin.The investigation by officials...
View ArticleIllegal activity increasing on the Dark Web
The Dark web is becoming darker day by day. Illegal sale of weapons to drugs has been exponentially increased, while most of the deliveries are done by innocent postal workers who don't have any idea,...
View ArticleKaspersky AV users exposed to attacks
Google’s security engineer, Tavis Ormandy has discovered a vulnerability in the Kaspersky antivirus program’s interception of HTTPS traffic which coincides with its own certificate to scan for web...
View ArticleWebsite of Military of Venezuela hacked
The Official website of Military of Venezuela has been hacked and published on the website Pastebin.com by a user named Kapustkiy on 8 January 2017.The hacker targeted the official website...
View ArticleFrance's Presidential election could be next target for hackers
After witnessing a cyber attack on US Presidential election, France is not leaving any stone unturned to protect its Presidential election from hackers.France's Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian...
View ArticleMore UK web users to become techie in 2017
The British Investigatory Powers bill states that all communications will suffer the lack of privacy online. The Internet Service Providers will need to collect data as to their users which will...
View ArticleRansomware payments reach $1 bn in 2016
According to Federal Bureau of Investigation, the ranasomware payments in the year 2016 have reached up to a billion dollar a year which is a high rise from $24 million in 2015.The average ransom...
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St. Jude releases software update for heart devices
The Homeland Security Department warned Tuesday (January 10) about an unusual cybersecurity flaw for St. Jude Medical’s implantable heart devices which could allow hackers to remotely take control of a...
View Article5000 Web databases hit in ransom attack
Cyber thieves have taken down thousands of web-based databases and are now seeking a ransom to restore the data.Security researchers have found that attackers deleted the MongoDB databases which...
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WhatsApp’s encrypted messages can be vulnerable to MITM attacks
This week, an article by Guardian reported that Whatsapp’s encrypted messages are vulnerable to hacks. The encryption keys in social messenger leave users wide open to man-in-the-middle attacks,...
View ArticleTrump's appoints a cybersecurity adviser whose own website is a mess
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani as an informal adviser on cybersecurity.According to the Presidential transition office, Trump's transition team...
View ArticleSupreme Court issue notice to WhatsApp and Facebook over privacy policy
The Supreme Court of India has issued notices to central government, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), WhatsApp, and Facebook over a plea seeking privacy on data.The petition was filed by...
View ArticleItalian siblings arrested for cyberattack
Italian police have arrested a nuclear engineer, Giulio Occhionero, 45 and his sister, Francesca Maria Occhionero, 49 for hacking into 18,000 high-profile email accounts, including the former Prime...
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Rudy Giuliani to defend US from hackers
Last week on January 12, US president-elect Donald Trump named former New York City mayor, Rudolph Giuliani as the head of cybersecurity advisory group and the decision was followed by an instant...
View ArticleAadhaar Payment is more vulnerable than any digital mode
After the dust settled over Indian government’s demonetization scheme, the discussions on security systems of digital payments started making rounds.One alternative system of cash that government has...
View ArticleIndia sees massive rise in cybercrimes rise post Demonetisation
As speculated by many cyber-security experts, there has been a huge rise in cybercrime incidents in India post demonetization scheme.A joint study of ASSOCHAM-PwC reported that there were 39, 730...
View ArticleBHIM app, highly vulnerable
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing India towards cashless money encouraging the use of online transaction and card transaction. To do an online transaction one needs an internet connection, while...
View ArticleNHS Trust hacked by a Trojan Malware
The UK'S largest NHS TRUST has been a victim of a cyber attack reportedly caused by a Trojan Malware, probably because it's still running Windows XP.According to the reports, there has been no data...
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