In 2019, Google has paid more than $6.5 million in rewards as part of its Vulnerability Reward Programs. 461 researchers reported bugs and received bounties, the biggest one of which is $201,000, Google said in a blog post. “We paid…
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2020, Amazon announced several new products and services related to vehicles, including: – Alexa integrations in cars: In addition to their Alexa integrations in vehicles from Toyota, Ford, Audi and BMW, Alexa will…
We are living in a world that is heavily dependent on technology and the innovations of tech firms progressively amassing more power than any one of us in our right minds should be comfortable with. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung:…
Appleinsider has reported that FBI has managed to succeed in breaking the encryption of the smartphone iPhone 11 Pro Max without asking Apple for help. This still does not explain why Apple has been asked by the FBI in the…
Mobile biometrics have been on the rise since Apple released Touch ID in 2013. After its release, the global market for mobile biometrics has earned over $14 billion. To paint a better picture, 57% of today’s available apps feature a…
An unknown criminal or hacking group has leaked a very large list of Telnet credentials from IoT devices. They are mostly from consumer and commonly used networking hardware — routers, servers, access points and etc. The list was posted on…
70,000 Tinder photos of women are being circulated on an underground forum typically used for selling malware. The photos are entirely of women, and cybersecurity researchers believe the photos could be used for malicious purposes. The incident was first reported…
Australia has been hit by a serious data breach that took place on December 12, 2019. The largest member-owned bank in Western Australia, P&N Bank has been affected, when its CRM system was accessed by threat actors as a consequence.…
The end of support for Windows 7 Operating System was marked on January 14, 2020 and the promise has been kept by Microsoft yesterday. Four major updates were released related to the security of Windows. One of them was a…
The first step to choosing the right managed detection and response services for your company is to understand what those services offer and why you might need them. These services can go beyond the technology, look to the future, and…
A dangerous Windows 10 vulnerability tracked in CVE-2020-0601 has been reported by the American National Security Agency which are rated as critical. They are being tracked in the CVE-2020-0601 advisory and allows malicious code to be masked as legitimate apps…
There’s a new large privacy incident regarding an unprotected database that affects 49 million business contacts. This database containing sensitive information is currently being sold on an underground hacking forum, ZDNet reports. It seems that the data comes from LimeLeads,…
With the introduction of contactless cards into the financial sector came swift, convenient, and secure payments. However, like any useful innovation, the adoption of contactless payment has seen its fair share of controversy. Perhaps, the most prominent of these disagreements…
A new critical security vulnerability that affects cable modems using Broadcom chips was just discovered. Dubbed Cable Haunt and identified as CVE-2019-19494, the vulnerability puts at risk some 200 million cable modems in Europe alone, the researchers who discovered it…
The Citrix flaw, CVE-2019-19781, was first identified in December 2019. The vulnerable products include the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway). Despite Citrix having shared mitigations to prevent attacks, proof-of-concent codes were released to the…
A recently discovered vulnerability in the Citrix Gateway (NetScaler Gateway), and the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) could expose 80,000 companies to hacks. UPDATE. According to the latest information, there are working exploits against the CVE-2019-19781 flaw which allow…
Cybersecurity researcher known as Lynx has discovered a huge database on the public internet served from a computer with a Chinese IP address. The database contains the personal details of 56.25 million US residents. The details are very sensitive including…
Cannabis farming has become one of the contributory industries in the field of alternative medicine. Machines and equipment have helped in the production of such a plant for progressive consumption. In this article, the role of cannabis machine learning will…
If you haven’t patched your Firefox browser today, you should do it immediately as there is an active zero-day exploit indexed as CVE-2019-17026. An emergency patch was just released shortly after Mozilla shipped version 72 of its Firefox browser. According…
Regarding the recent assassination of the Iranian general Soleimani, many security experts and users have turned their attention onto the prospective Iran or Iran-related hacking groups. The country is known to have a lot of experienced computer experts, including malicious…
