After a whirlwind year in cyberattacks, everyone is asking the same question: how much worse can it get, and what are we going to do about it? Cybersecurity is – to say the least – a hot-button subject. From accusations…
A new type of ransomware virus has been detected by victims and researchers in China to be spread in a global outbreak, calling itself hAnt threatens to burn down your AntMiner if you don’t pay 10 BTC. The ransomware is…
The number of individuals affected by data breaches and cyberattacks in 2018 is definitely in the billions, and organizations are not far behind, either. One data breach alone, Marriott’s, affected 500 million individuals! More specifically, Starwood subsidiary’s guest reservation network…
Gamers are concerned about online security more than ever, says McAfee. According to a recent survey conducted by the malware protection company, nearly 75 percent of gamers worry about gaming security in the future. The participants in the survey were…
A new security report shows that Alcatel smartphones contain an Android malware called TCL Weather. It was found installed on two phones and available on the Google Play Repository as well. TCL Weather Android Malware Bundled with Alcatel Phones Embedding…
KB4480960 and KB4480970 are two security updates published by Microsoft in January 2019 Patch Tuesday. The updates are for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and as evident by multiple complaints by users, they are causing troubles.…
A serious security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-15453, in Cisco AsyncOS. More precisely, the vulnerability is located in the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Decryption and Verification or S/MIME Public Key Harvesting features of Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security…
A flaw was just discovered in Google’s Knowledge Graph, which makes it possible to manipulate search results. Shortly put, “by adding two parameters to any Google Search URL, you can replace search results with a Knowledge Graph card of your…
Three vulnerabilities in a component of system have been discovered by researchers at Qualys. The vulnerabilities are CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, and CVE-2018-16866, and patches addressing them are already available. More specifically, they were were discovered in systemd-journald, which is a part…
Have you had issues with removing permanently the Facebook app from Samsung Galaxy smartphones? You’re not the only one! Nick Winke, a photographer in the Pacific Northwest, has shared his bad experience regarding his Galaxy S8 phone, and the story…
Intel and Facebook are working together on a new artificial intelligence (AI) chip. Called the Nervana Neural Network Processor (NNP-I), it is an AI chip for inference-based workloads. The new chip is expected to be finished in the second half…
Comcast had made an important announcement about a new AI-powered service that is meant to monitor, block and inform customers about online threats connected to home networks. The service is called xFinity xFi Advanced Security, and its main purpose is…
Two-factor authentication as means for securing access to services and sites is one of the recommended approaches, especially when dealing with sensitive contents and online banking. It is deemed as a safe approach as it makes hacking the accounts harder.…
A series of attacks have been detected on the popular crypto exchange Coinbase which led to the suspension of all transactions of Ethereum Classic. The transactions are suspended on Coinbase’s trading platforms, products and services. The incident resulted in the…
It’s no news that macOS users also need protection against malicious code. The good news is that macOS users now have a new tool designed to help them identify generic keyloggers that may be plaguing their systems. The tool is…
GHIDRA is the name of a free reverse engineering tool that will be released by the NSA during the upcoming RSA security conference in March in San Francisco. The software is a disassembler that is designed to break down executable…
Google has just fixed a three-year old vulnerability in Chrome for Android. The vulnerability was originally discovered in May 2015, but it took a while for Google to evaluate the threat and its potential. In 2015, Nightwatch Cybersecurity researchers discovered…
For years, social media has been rapidly growing in influence. From once being a simple way to meet up with old school friends to be a very powerful medium of expression, free speech, social engineering, gender equality, business, politics, entertainment,…
The European Union is about to sponsor 14 bug bounty programs for vulnerabilities in 14 popular open-source software projects. The announcement was made a few days ago by Julia Reda, who represents the German Pirate Party in the European Parliament.…
Several of the major US newspaper saw a deliberate sabotage caused by a cyberattack taking down parts of their publishing and distribution. According to the available information the incident happened last week and the cause of it was a virus…
