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₹79 lakh online fraud to withdraw ₹49 in over 1.5 lakh transactions

A gang from Jharkhand, responsible for fraud of over ₹79 lakh, was busted on Friday for hacking over 2,020 accounts of State Bank of Mysore (SBM) customers last year.The gang was led by a 19-year-old...

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Edward Snowden launches Spy App

Edward Snowden has launched a new security Android app that can help citizens who would like to monitor their belonging when they aren't around.The app, Haven was released in partnership with The...

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The United States failed to establish deterrence in the aftermath of Russia’s...

The United States of America has yet again neglected to build up deterrence in the consequence of Russia's interference in the 2016 election. And there is no surprise as to why it failed to do so....

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PDF files new resort for Cyber criminals

Beware. Some spoofed emails might strike terror at you sooner or later. These emails with attachments might come from your common devices of Epson, HP and Canon printer-scanner which is more or less a...

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Tatkal Ticket Scam Uncovered, CBI Official Arrested

Ajay Garg, an assistant programmer at the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), has been arrested by his own agency for developing a software that exploits the vulnerabilities of the IRCTC railway...

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Hacker’s can guess smartphone security pin using sensor data

The data collected from different sensors on your smartphone can reveal PINs and passwords to hackers and allow them to unlock your mobile devices, researchers at the Nanyang Technological University,...

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Morgan Stanley considers Bitcoin to be of no value

Cryptocurrencies dominated the financial news space in 2017, with bitcoin rising more 13 times this year, as per Coindesk, even as prices have remained very volatile. The cryptocurrency’s worth...

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Microsoft Sues IP Address for Windows, Office Piracy

Microsoft has filed a lawsuit against an individual IP address that was reportedly attempting to activate a pirated version of Windows and Office. The IP address points to a Comcast office in New...

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Romanian hackers charged for infiltrating 65% of Washington's outdoor...

 Two Romanian hackers are allegedly charged with infiltrating over two-thirds of the outdoor surveillance cameras in Washington, DC, days before  President Trump’s inauguration, according to the...

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Ripple passes Ethereum to become World’s Second-Largest Cryptocurrency

Ripple has overtaken Ethereum as world’s second-largest cryptocurrency. Its XRP token climbed more than 50% on Saturday.In just 24 hours, Ripple rose to as much as $2.20.Ripple has had one of the...

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Apple offers batteries for $29

Apple has publically apologized to its customers for slowing older iPhones in order to keep up with declining battery life. After all this fiasco, the company has said that they would reduce the price...

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Sensors existing in smartphones themselves present a gateway to hackers.

According to a study led by an Indian-origin scientist Shivam Bhasin, NTU Senior Research, data from your smartphone sensors can reveal PINs and passwords to hackers and allow them to unlock your...

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Go and greet with Whatsapp

Happy New Year: Just a short and single line is all that you can use to convey new year greetings to your near and dear ones. Right. But a set of an effective mechanism has to be there. Options are...

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Google chrome takes down extension for mining cryptocurrency

Leading internet browser, Google Chrome, has taken down a Chrome browser extension which was reported to be secretly mining cryptocurrency using the CPU power of the users.The extension hijacks a...

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Two Romanians held for US police CCTV hack

Two Romanian nationals have been charged with hacking police computers linked to surveillance cameras in Washington, DC in January after US prosecutors uncovered evidence of a suspected ransomware...

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Beware. Here comes Loapi

One after another malware seems to have compounded cyber world much of the major concern for the cybersecurity experts these days. Now its Loapi to infect the cyber system. According to cybersecurity...

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Intel’s Processors Security flaw forces Linux, Windows Kernels redesign

Millions of computers using Intel chips are prone to hacking because of a flaw that went unnoticed for a decade, it has emerged.A security flaw in Intel's processors' chips has forced to redesign the...

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" Narcos " helping users to potentially curb Cybercrime

The dark web isn't only a market for illicit drugs and stolen Visa or credit card numbers but rising underneath the surface of this already uncertain market place is a growing economy flourishing on...

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Aadhaar data breach: For Rs 500 access to billion details, UIDAI denies report

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has denied an investigative report from the Tribune that you can access to Aadhaar database of over one billion for just Rs 500 in 10...

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Meltdown and Spectre: Breakdown of The recent CPU Security Bug

Much like how Icarus flew too close to the sun.In trying to catch up with Moors law the CPU's manufacturers have left open a serious vulnerability that will haunt us for years to come.Whats the cause...

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