UK 'hacker' Lauri Love fears death in US prison
A British man, Lauri Love, who has has Asperger's syndrome, allegedly hacked the US government computers says he fears dying in jail if he is extradited to US.He told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire...
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SMS for 2-Factor Authentication can be compromised
Earlier this year in May 2016, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a guideline recommending the depreciation of SMS authentication as the second factor for strong...
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A USB device can steal credentials from a locked PC or MAC
A researcher, Rob Fuller has proved that it is quite easy for hackers to steal credentials from locked Windows and Mac OS X computers using a small USB device. 20 seconds of physical access to with a...
View ArticleGregory Touhill: First cyber security chief in US
A retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general, Gregory Touhill has been named as the first federal Cybersecurity chief of the United States government, The White House on Thursday.The government...
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iPhone 7's goodbye to its traditional headphone sockets
(pc-google images)Ever since the new Apple’s iPhone 7 has been launched, the entire world is going gaga over its features and new additions in the model. The iPhone 7 doesn’t have the traditional...
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Warner Bros Report Own Site Illegal, Asks Google To Remove From Search
(PC-Google images)Film maker Warner Brothers has reported its own site as illegal and has asked Google to remove it from search results. The famous movie studio has cited copyright law violation as the...
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Cisco's Talos & GoDaddy Shut Down Malvertising Campaign
(pc-google images)Cisco System’s threat research group has detected and deactivated a global malvertising campaign which exposed visitors on legitimate sites to the malicious code Neutrino Exploit Kit....
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Mr.Chow's Website Serves Ransomware To Customers
(pc-google images)Popular Chinese restaurant Mr.Chow is in news for serving ransomware to customers via its website. The restaurant, which has chains in London and US, had its site hacked by...
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Israel arrests two teens for $600,000 cybercrime operation
Israeli law enforcement has arrested Yarden Bidani and Itay Huri as part of an FBI investigation into their alleged control of vDOS, one of the most popular paid attack platforms. The two 18-year-old...
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911 emergency services can be knocked down by a mobile botnet
911 can only take so many emergency calls, especially when they’re fake.Researchers at the Cyber-Security Research Center at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have demonstrated that a...
View ArticleCyber-security firm Claroty in Israel exit "stealth mode"
Cyber security start-up Claroty in Israel said that they raised $32 millions from funding and now they will no longer operate in a secrecy mode after operating in for the past two years.The company's...
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Russian hackers leak US Rio Medalist Medical Files
A group of Russian hackers linked to the government known as Fancy Bear has posted a data of Olympic drug-testing files of four U.S. athletes, including tennis players Venus and Serena Williams and...
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EU promises free Wi-Fi to all
To expand its digital initiatives, the European Commission has planned to provide free wi-fi in all the public spaces across its member's states within four years. The EU has a budget of €120 million...
View ArticleRussia bans two more porn sites
Access to two of the world's largest pornography websites has been blocked by the Russian media watchdog, Roskomnadzor. Internet Service providers have time until Tuesday to implement the ban.The...
View ArticleMedia Houses sue FBI for details on iPhone hacking tool
The Associated Press and two other news organizations have sued the FBI to learn about the details of the agency who got paid by the government for hacking into an iPhone of the San Bernardino killer's...
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APPLE UPDATES ON THE 'BRICKING' FLAW
(pc-Google images)Apple is finally claiming that it has finally solved the bricking issue that users have been facing upon the new iOS 10 update.Complaints have been pouring in from iPhone and iPad...
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HC keeping an eye on new WhatsApp privacy policy
(pc-Google images)Awaiting the decision from the Supreme Court constitution bench on making right to privacy a fundamental right or not, a PIL has been filed against WhatsApp that challenges it's new...
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Blizzard again hit with DDoS attack, gamers furious
Blizzard’s Battle.net servers are experiencing issues third time in a week that is keeping players offline but this time, the publisher has revealed this is the result of a distributed...
View ArticleYouTubers charged over video game gambling site
Two men YouTubers have appeared in court charged with unlawful Gambling Act, first prosecution involving gambling on video game sites.Craig Douglas (NepentheZ), a prominent FIFA YouTuber, and Dylan...
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Medical device cyber attacks on rise
Cyber threats pose a growing danger to companies and individuals and the risks are constantly evolving like a moving target but recently, it has been seen that the cyber thieves are targeting more of...
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