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15,000 Vulnerabilities Catalogued in 2016, CVE Flaws Exceeded

2016 has seen the biggest volume of vulnerabilities as revealed by a new report. 15,000 flaws have been catalogued by Risk Based Security. The volume outnumbers the flaws covered by CVE and National Vulnerability Database by more than 6,500, HelpNet…

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Information To Crack iPhone and iOS Devices Stolen by Hackers and Posted Online

Remember the San Bernadino shooter? Who doesn’t. A while back, his iPhone was cracked by a private company, named Cellebrite who managed to help FBI for the case. Despite the efforts of apple to preserve privacy, Cellebrite has developed tools…

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38% Of Android VPN Apps Use Malware to Track You

VPN is surely a great service. It allows users to tunnel their way through a safe network and remain private and secure while browsing online. This makes VPN the reason for many developers to focus on creating applications that offer…

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WordPress Just Fixed Serious Zero-Day Bug In Versions 4.7 and 4.7.1

WordPress recently patched three major security vulnerabilities in its latest update. The flaws could allow for cross-site scripting and SQL injections, and a range of other subsequent issues. The fixes affected WordPress versions 4.7.1 and earlier. Applying the update as…

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The Dark Web Creates a Market for Employees to Monetize Insider Access

Last year several reports revealed that privileged users were the riskiest in organizations. Researchers have now established yet another troublesome tendency – an increase of employees turning into insider traders. Apparently, dark web marketplaces have seen an abundance of insiders…

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Display Name Spoofs Most Popular in Corporate Spear Phishing

A new GreatHorn report emphasizes on the growth of corporate phishing emails from March to November 2016. The firm has analyzed more than 56 million emails in the given period, gathered from 91,500 corporate mailboxes. GreatHorn researchers concluded that attackers…

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Cerber Ransomware Corporate Attacks Explained by Microsoft

Cerber ransomware infections have been infecting more corporate computers than home-based machines, Microsoft report reveals. 2114 infections have been uncovered inbetween December and January, all on corporate endpoints running Windows 10 Enterprise. This Windows edition is supposed to be very…

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Ransomware Disables Washington Street CCTV Cameras

News have broken out that it was actually a ransomware virus was actually responsible for the shutting down of most of the storage devices responsible for the CCTV on the streets of Washington 1 week before president Trump’s inauguration. Actual…

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Netgear Routers Vulnerable to Remote Access Attacks

Netgear routers are currently endangered by serious security loopholes just discovered by researchers. The vulnerabilities were disclosed by Trustwave’s Simon Kenin, who has reported his findings to Netgear. Some fixes have already been rolled out in 2016 but it appears…

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Monero Cryptocurrency to Follow Bitcoin in Criminal Popularity?

Bitcoin may not be the only cryptocurrency of interest to both the FBI and cybercriminals. Monero, which has been outlined as a privacy-focused currency, has drawn the attention of the Federal Bureau due to the possibility of criminal exploits. Related…

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$3 Million Paid by Google in the 2016 Vulnerability Reward Program

In 2016 alone Google has paid out $3 million to security researchers and bug hunters who have reported vulnerabilities in their services. More than 350 researchers from 59 countries took part in the program. We created our Vulnerability Rewards Program…

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Gmail Bans JavaScript .JS Attachments to Counter Malware

February 13, 2017, is the day when Google will stop allowing JavaScript attachments on Gmail. These attachments are indeed the most popular way for malware to sneak into a user’s system. More particularly, users will not be able to attach…

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Guests Locked Out of Their Hotel Rooms Because of Ransomware

A very particular situation has played out in an Austrian 4-star hotel, Romantik Seehotel Jäegerwirt, which has ransomware written all over it. The virus has actually managed to lock all the EMF tagged doors, leaving all guests who were outside…

REVIEWS

The Security of Android 7 Nougat

Since the release of Android’s latest operating system – Nougat 7, Google has made it available to numerous Android devices for upgrade and manufacturers have quickly embedded the new OS which has numerous improvements in it. The mobile operating system…

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HELP_HELP_HELP Used by Cerber Ransomware’s Latest 2017 Update

The red variant of Cerber ransomware keeps being the persistent and savage beast in the malware world. The virus does not have much improvements since the red version came out, but only few modifications in it’s code. These at first…

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AlphaBay Dark Web Market Place Exposed 200,000 Private User Messages

One of the largest Dark Web markets, AlphaBay, has been outlined with a huge security problem which allows hackers to access private messages. The issue is due to a vulnerability disclosed by Reddit user Cipher0007 who is most likely a…

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Smartphone Unlock Patterns and PIN Codes Deemed Unsafe

In case you are using PIN or an unlock pattern, bear in mind that there is an actual 90% chance of people unlocking your phone without even having to take a look at your phone. This is what researchers at…

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Australia to Brief Political Parties on Cyber Threats

Australia’s federal government is about to the brief political parties next month on cybersecurity threats. This move is triggered by worries that the country’s electoral process could be targeted by foreign attackers. According to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Australia should…

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Samsung and Google to Work Together on AI Technology

Samsung recently confirmed its AI virtual assistant named Bixby. Bixby is about to be one of Galaxy S8 selling points, and this should come to no one’s surprise. Manufacturers are following the AI trend and are actively including such technology…

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The Chinese Firewall about to Embark on VPNs

China is officially transforming the Great Wall into the Great Firewall. On Sunday, January 22, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published a statement on its official website stating that government officials are about to start “cleaning up”…

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