Patanjali’s messaging app is a security disaster
Yoga guru turned businessman Baba Ramdev has launched a messaging app, "Kimbho", to challenge the monopoly of most popular messaging app WhatsApp.Patanjali Yogpeeth's spokesperson SK Tijarawala...
View ArticleVisa apologises to customers after massive network crash
Millions of Visa card users across Europe and the UK were unable to process any transactions due to a nationwide outage in the Visa network.Things got out of control when some of the customers of...
View ArticleAuthor of Sigrun Ransomware helps Russian victims for free, charges other...
The author of Sigrun ransomware is offering to decrypt computers of victims from Russia and some former USSR countries for free, while asking for payment in Bitcoin or Dash to citizens of other...
View ArticleGoogle mechanism for safety of smartphones
A new effective mechanism will make it quite difficult for the hackers to target the Pixel smartphones these days. Days are not far when the repeated attempts to update the firmware of a Pixel...
View ArticleHackers rob co-operative bank of Rs 95 lakh
A private co-operative bank has alleged that tech-savvy criminals hacked into its official email ID and syphoned off Rs 95 lakh in two transactions on May 28 and 29 from their account at IDBI Bank.The...
View ArticleHackers Target Travel Firm to Plunder Hundreds of Thousands from Clients
The Cyber criminals have now targeted a travel firm Booking.com in an offer to plunder hundreds and thousands of pounds from clients. The clients were sent WhatsApp and text messages asserting a...
View ArticleRemote code execution vulnerability discovered in Windows JScript
New Zero-day Remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft Windows JScript that allows an attacker to run the arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Windows. The...
View ArticleFacebook Gave Device-Makers Access To Users' Data
The world’s most dominant social media website, Facebook has again come in limelight over its deals between Facebook and device makers that allowed about 60 device makers to access personal...
View ArticleMajor cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex hit by cyber attack, pauses trading
The fourth biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Bitfinex, shut down briefly on Tuesday morning after a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on its trading platform.It started in the...
View ArticleBanking malware develop profit-sharing partnership
Banking malware vendors used to compete for victims by seeking out and deleting the competitor’s malware if it was found to be already installed on the victim’s system. However, now the groups behind...
View ArticleRs 500 Crore Cryptocurrency Scam Busted, Over 25,000 Cheated
The crime branch of Thane, a city in India, has busted an online multi-hundred crore cryptocurrency racket that operated for two years with the promise of good returns.The prime accused Amit Lakhanpal...
View ArticleNo more need to remember passwords
While the smartphone has made many of our work easier, there is also a concern about security. Where, when a hacker breaks into our smartphone and stole our most important information, this fear...
View ArticleMalicious malware unleashing fresh threat
VPNFilter, neither a computing device manufacturer nor a state-of-the-art mechanism, left lakhs of computers infected in dozens of countries last fortnight. It’s the name of a malicious malware that...
View ArticleOperation Prowli Malware Infected Over 40,000 Devices
Researchers have discovered a new malicious traffic manipulation and cryptocurrency mining campaign, dubbed as Operation Prowli, infecting number of industries from finance to education and...
View ArticleAdobe Patched Zero-Day Vulnerability
Adobe has recently issued a security update for Flash Player in order to fix a zero-day vulnerability that was exploited by attackers in the wild. The Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2018-5002), a...
View ArticleFacebook privacy goof-up 'affects 14 million users'
Facebook has warned their 14 million users around the world about a software bug which might have switched their default sharing to the public for all new posts between May 18 to May 27 without their...
View ArticleIs your Smartwatch spying on you?
Security researchers at a leading cybersecurity firm have demonstrated that smartwatches could be turned into a spying tool by using a device's accelerometer and gyroscope to track the owner's...
View ArticleGoogle bans AI used for weapons and war
Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday announced that Google is banning the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software that could be used in weapons or harm others.The company has set strict...
View ArticleRansomware Attack from Russian IP’s jeopardizes the Victims and Locks Their PC’s
A Newfound Ransomware by the name of Sigma is known to be spreading from Russia-based IP's with the assortment of social engineering procedures in order to jeopardize the victims and lock the contagion...
View ArticleComputer hacker Adrian Lamo’s death remains a mystery
The coroner's office in Sedgwick County, Kansas, on Wednesday released its autopsy report on famed hacker Adrian Lamo, who died in March at the age of 37. His autopsy report lists cause and manner of...
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