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This article’s goal is to help Mac users understand what SaveOnMac is and what to do, if it has been installed on their systems. Being an adware program, SaveOnMac generates unwanted and often intrusive pop-up ads and interferes with the…
Did you know that nearly 80% of all websites run on PHP? More particularly, “PHP is used by 78.9% of all the websites whose server-side programming language we know”, as revealed by W3Techs statistics. This fact alone makes PHP security…
As much as 150 vulnerabilities were discovered by white hat hackers in US Marine Corp websites and related services. For the findings which happened during a three-week bug bounty program, the ethical hackers were rewarded nearly $150,000 in cash rewards.…
A new report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called Threats to Precision Agriculture warns against the cybersecurity risks faced by the emerging technologies being adopted by the agricultural industry. Known as “precision agriculture,” the technologies include internet of…
Two severe security vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-0448, CVE-2018-15386) affecting Cisco’s Digital Network Architecture (DNA) Center software have been just patched. The DNA Center interface is used by network admins to add new devices to the network and manage them based on enterprise…
Security researchers recently detected a curious case of entrapped PDF file hosted in Azure Blob storage. More specifically, the case involves storing the attackers’ phishing form on Azure Blob Storage in order to be secured by a Microsoft SSL certificate.…
Security researchers at Proofpoint recently uncovered new DanaBot campaigns. The malware has been adopted by threat actors targeting Europe and North America. Previous targets included Australian organizations. Currently, DanaBot is set against financial organizations in the United States. DanaBot campaigns…
New Kaspersky research indicates that the increasingly popular Roaming Mantis Group is testing a new monetization technique that involves the redirection of iOS users to Coinhive in-browser mining pages. Prior activities of this hacking group included the exploitation of vulnerable…
iOS 12, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system which was released in the middle of September, is already facing a serious security problem. Apparently, someone has found a way to go around its lock screen security to access…
What Is Skype Virus? What is Skype virus? Because of their popularity and large adoption by users worldwide, applications such as Skype and Facebook are targeted by malware authors quite often. This article is dedicated to Skype malware, often referred…
Judging by the speed at which new iterations are introduced into the wild, whoever is behind the GandCrab ransomware is not going to stop any time soon. The ransomware was just updated in two new versions – GANDCRAB v5.0.1 and…
Were you unexpectedly logged out of your Facebook session just this morning (28th September, 2018)? Well, there is a reason for that, and it had to do with a brand new security vulnerability in Facebook, BBC reported. New Security Flaw…
Phishing has long been a crucial part of attackers’ arsenal. The technique is often deployed against companies and their employees, tricking them into clicking on the provided links and thus initiating various malicious campaigns. To counter the success of phishing,…
In July, Microsoft made the announcement that it’s about to discontinue Skype Classic on September 1st. However, because of the negative feedback, this date got delayed. Unfortunately, the delay is also going to end soon, as Microsoft is expected to…
Just a couple of days ago, privacy-savvy eyes noticed that Chrome 69 keeps Google cookies even when the user specifically asks it to delete all cookies. What exactly happens when the user tries to clear all cookies from Chrome 69?…
Twitter just fixed a vulnerability that may have shared direct messages (DMs) and protected tweets of some users with developers who were not authorized to access the information. It appears that the bug is related to Twitter’s Account Activity API…
A Twitter discussion started by Christoph Tavan has revealed that Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies even when the user specifically asks it to delete all cookies. ““Clear browsing data” -> “Cookies and other site data” doesn’t empty local storage.…
CVE-2018-8373 is a severe remote code execution vulnerability which was fixed in August 2018 Patch Tuesday. The vulnerability was located in Internet Explorer and the way it manages objects in memory. At the time the advisory was published, there were…
Security researcher Patrick Wardle has disclosed a new security vulnerability in the latest version of macOS, Mojave, hours before the version was released. The researcher showed the privacy feature bypass in a video shared on Twitter. The original purpose of…
Remember the Equifax breach? The major security havoc affected one of the largest credit reporting companies operating in the USA. As a result of the malicious intrusion, cybercriminals were able to obtain information on millions of users worldwide. The data…
