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New ransomware scam asks for nude pics to unlock files
A few months ago, two ransomware scams made news for asking users to play video games in order…
September 23, 2017
Experian Flaw Lets Attacker Obtain Credit Freeze PIN and Access Account
Plenty of consumers decided to go for a credit freeze to prevent identity theft and credit fraud after…
September 22, 2017
Massive Viacom Data Exposed Through Amazon Web Services
Database on Amazon Web Services Containing Sensitive Data of Viacom Is Publicly Available. Amazon Web Services S3 is…
September 22, 2017
How SS7 Flaw Can Be Used to Hack Gmail ID and Bitcoin Wallet
An old vulnerability in the Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) telecom network protocol was used by Positive Technologies…
September 21, 2017
Night Vision Enabled Security Cameras Secretly Transfer Your Data
A team of researchers from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, have proved how security cameras equipped…
September 21, 2017
CCleaner Software Hacked with Backdoor; 2 Million Users Infected
Hackers have illegally modified Avast-owned CCleaner by establishing a backdoor to the hacker’s server, impacting some 2.27 million…
September 18, 2017
The Pirate Bay Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script
In 2015, it was reported that uTorrent was secretly installing Epic Scale Bitcoin mining software on users’ computer…
September 17, 2017
Alaska Voter Database Exposed Online
IT security researchers at Kromtech Security Center discovered an unprotected database exposed online due to misconfiguration of CouchDB containing…
September 16, 2017
Fitbit’ Fitness Tracker Devices Leak Personal Data: Researchers
We do know that the inherent flaws in wearable devices especially the fitness trackers can prove to be…
September 16, 2017
Android Apps Infected with ExpensiveWall Malware Downloaded 21M Times
Time and again we have witnessed the reality to be reinforced that it is extremely difficult to maintain…
September 16, 2017