Bulgarian security expert arrested for demonstrating a vulnerability in...
Recently, the Bulgarian police detained an information security specialist Petko Petrov, who published a video about the vulnerability in the IT system of the municipality used in local...
View ArticleVulnerability in Chrome Allows To Virtually Take Over Any Android-Based Device
A critical vulnerability in Chrome for Android apparently exploited and displayed in a quite popular hacking contest is now being known to empower anybody with specialized technical expertise to...
View ArticleLone cyber police station in Bengaluru gets overburdened
The delay in setting up new police stations to handle cyber crime has overburdened the lone station in Bengaluru. Eight new police stations for cyber crime, economic offences and narcotics (CEN...
View ArticleCDSCO Warns Users and Providers against Potentially Hack-able Insulin Pumps!
The wireless communication between Medtronic’s Minimed insulin pumps and other remote controlled related devices like blood glucose meters. These have a high risk of being hacked.Central Drug Standard...
View ArticleFake Messages on WhatsApp Asks the Users to Pay Money in Order to Continue...
WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram suffered a social media outage on 3rd July which affected the users all across the world. As a consequence of the outage, users were not able to access the platforms...
View ArticleRansomware found exploiting former Windows flaw
Researchers at cybersecurity firm Kaspersky have uncovered new encryption ransomware named Sodin (Sodinokibi or REvil) that exploits a recently discovered Windows vulnerability to get elevated...
View ArticleThe Moscow Mayor’s Office claims that electronic voting is safe
According to Alexey Shaposhnikov, the Chairman of the Moscow Parliament, the experiment to conduct electronic voting in the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma will take place, despite the...
View ArticleThe Rise of Fingerprinting and Monitoring Of Our Digital Activities
The concept of digital privacy has evolved so much with time that regardless of whether we secure our data to ensure that we are not tracked on the web, the ad tech industry, through some way or...
View ArticleThe Central Bank of Russia detected a new type of fraud during the transfer...
According to the publication of the Center for monitoring and responding to computer attacks in the financial sphere of the General Directorate of protection and information security at Bank of Russia...
View ArticleBritish Airways fined £183m for data leak
The UK's data privacy authority has announced that they have slammed British Airways with a fine of £183m for failing to protect its customers' data.The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said...
View ArticleFlaw in Zoom app could allow Mac webcams to be hacked
Jonathan Leitschuh, a US-based security researcher on Monday had publicly disclosed a major zero-day vulnerability in the Zoom video conferencing software. Leitschuh had demonstrated that any website...
View ArticleFake “Samsung UPDATES” App Deceives Millions!
Millions of Samsung users were massively misled by an “updates” app which actually has nothing to do with Samsung. The app tried to harvest money in exchange for security updates.The app was spotted...
View ArticleInstagram to roll out new features to counter cyberbullying
Bullying. Sadly, it’s a pandemic that is not just restricted to the school grounds of our younger and geekier selves, but something which tends to follow people around regardless of age and even...
View ArticleTrickbot Trojan Gets 'BokBot' Proxy Module to Steal Banking Info.
In 2017, IBM's X-Force team discovered a banking trojan named as 'BokBot', which redirects users to malicious online banking websites or can link victims to a browser procedure in order to insert...
View ArticleRussian cyber security specialists massively quit from Russian banks
The Central Bank’s requirements for information security, which have dramatically increased over the past year, led to the departure of specialists in this field from banks to other industries. This...
View ArticleApple pushes out silent update for Mac users to remove Zoom web server
Earlier this week, a US-based security researcher named Jonathan Leitschuh had publicly disclosed a major vulnerability in the Zoom video conferencing software for Apple’s Mac computers which could...
View ArticleA New Smartphone Malware Infects 25 Million Devices Worldwide
A new smartphone malware that has infected 25 million devices around the world, including 15 million in India has been recently discovered by a team of cyber security specialists. Being dubbed as...
View ArticleGoogle has been listening to recordings from Home smart speakers
Google has admitted that it listens to voice recordings of users from its AI voice-assistant Google Assistant after its Dutch language recordings were leaked by Belgian public broadcaster VRT. “Most of...
View ArticleGoogle’s Language Experts Listen to Users’ Private Recordings
The technology superpower Google recently avowed that its employees listen to customers' personal audio recordings on Google Home smart speakers.For allegedly improving the voice recognition quality,...
View ArticleLogins and passwords of users of the Russian online store Ozon leaked to the...
The database including more than 450 thousand e-mail addresses and user passwords from accounts of the Russian online store Ozon was found on one of the sites that collect data leaks.According to...
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