3 new attacks by Wicked Mirai botnet
In April 2018, a report revealed how university students developed what would become the WannaCry ransomware.But before it attacked millions of devices, WannaCry was the Mirai botnet–a DDoS army that...
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BMW preparing to counter security threats
A nagging fear of security flaws grips even the top car models much to the major concern of the entire automobile sector these days. The crux of it is a recent technical report by Tencent Keen Security...
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Intel finds another chip exploit
Just when we thought that we were past the myriad of Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws, Intel (along with Google and Microsoft) has today shed light on a new strain of Spectre-style vulnerabilities called...
View ArticlePirate Bay to be blocked by ISP Telenor
Telenor, the Norwegian Internet Service Provider (ISP), who for long has refrained from blocking access to the Swedish file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay, despite demands from the music and film...
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Facebook Wants Your Naked Photos To Combat 'Revenge Porn'
Facebook will soon ask its users to upload naked photos of themselves to the social media website in order to stop revenge porn.On Tuesday, the social network announced that they are testing their new...
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Cisco Warns Of a Suspected Russian Plan to Attack Ukraine
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.The U.S. government said on Wednesday that it would look to wrestle a huge number of infected routers and storage gadgets from the control of the so-called hackers against whom...
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An app that uncovers privacy
At least 10,000 children with Apple and Android phones are said to have been remaining unprotected as they keep using Amazon cloud servers that helps their parents monitoring them. A cyber security...
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Amazon's Alexa recorded a family’s conversation and sent it to random people
A Portland-based couple received a most horrifying phone call from one of their acquaintances.“Unplug your Alexa devices right now. You’re being hacked.”This phone call was a wake-up call for all the...
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Turla Mosquito Hacker Group shift to Open Source Malware
Turla, a hacking group that has been active for over ten years and one of the largest known state-sponsored cyberespionage groups, is showing a shift in its behaviour from using its own creations to...
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Mac devices affected by new cryptojacking malware
Amid an accelerating popularity of cryptocurrency, millions of online users have been running the risk of being left high and dry since the cybercriminals have started unleashing a huge threat with...
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Greenwich University fined £120,000 for hole in computing site
The UK's Information Commissioner has fined £120,000 ($160,000) to the University of Greenwich for a security breach that affected personal data of 19,500 students.The compromised data included names,...
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Android Devices with Pre-Installed Malware
The Avast threat Labs have recently discovered pre-installed adware on a few hundred diverse Android gadget models and versions, also incorporating gadgets from makers like ZTE and Archos. The adware,...
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Two financial institutions investigating hacks, customer data may have been...
Bank of Montreal (BMO) and CIBC-owned Simplii Financial on Monday revealed that data of thousands of customers may have been breached in recent hacks on Canada’s two of the largest financial...
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New mechanism to counter cyber criminals
SEVered is no longer an effective mechanism for the cyber criminals to strike these days.The Cybersecurity experts at work with a world class firm claimed to have cracked the cyberattack and extracted...
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Cryptocurrency Trading App Taylor loses 2,578 ETH in hack
The creators of Taylor, a cryptocurrency trading app, have claimed that they have lost about 2,578.98 Ether (which is currently valued at over $1.49 million) from the company’s wallet in an attack by...
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Medical Devices Now Vulnerable To Cyber Attacks
It is no denying the Fact that with the advancement in technology and evolution in time tons of changes have been made as well as acknowledged by millions of individuals all around the world, as these...
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Afghan diplomats in Pakistan targeted by hackers
Afghan diplomats in Pakistan have been warned they are believed to be victims of "government-backed" digital attacks trying to steal their email passwords.Afghan embassy sources told BBC two staff...
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Google Rewards $36,000 For Finding Vulnerability
Google has rewarded an Uruguayan teenager with $36,000 for finding a severe security vulnerability.Ezequiel Pereira, a 17-year-old was surfing the site when he found a serious security flaw that would...
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Vulnerability in Windows JScript component allows remote code execution
Trend Micro’s Zero-Day Initiative yesterday released a summary of light technical details regarding a vulnerability in Windows operating system’s JScript component that allows remote hackers to execute...
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Leak Reveals Surprise 5GHz Intel Core i7-8086K Anniversary Processor
Intel was going to release one of its fastest ever processors on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its 8086 processor but the circumstances changed so much that the surprise super-fast processor...
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