As ransomware is on the rise, the organisations are focusing too much on the anti-virus softwares rather than proactively forming strategies to deal with cyber-attacks which could pose as an indefinite threat to the users. Nevertheless one of the good advices to deal with this issue is the creation of […]
Année : 2018
All HTTP websites to soon be marked as “not secure” by Google Chrome
If you’re still running a website that is still using insecure HTTP then it’s time to wake up and drink the coffee. Because unless you take action soon, you’re going to find many of your visitors are going to distrust your website. The reason? Google is pushing ahead with its […]
Facebook lance le bouton « downvote » pour dénoncer des contenus inappropriés
Pour mieux gérer sa modération, Facebook lance un bouton « Downvote » qui permet de déclasser des commentaires. C’est pour l’instant en phase de test sur certaines pages utilisateurs aux États-Unis. « Nous ne testons pas un bouton « Je n’aime pas » ». La déclaration d’un porte-parole de Facebook à Techcrunch […]
Government websites hijacked by cryptomining plugin
OVER 4000 WEBSITES THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HIT. More than 4000 websites, including many belonging to governments around the world, were hijacked this weekend by hackers who managed to plant CoinHive code designed to exploit the computer power of visiting PCs and mine for cryptocurrency. High profile websites impacted by […]
Tunisie – Zaghouan : Un enfant de 13 ans se suicide dans le cadre du jeu vidéo « La baleine bleue »
Un enfant de 13 ans s’est suicidé ce dimanche après midi à Zaghouan. Il s’est avéré, selon ses parents qu’il s’adonnait au jeu vidéo, la baleine bleue, depuis près de deux mois. Brûlés dan leur chair, par l’amertume de la perte de leur enfant, les parents du petit n’ont pas […]
U.S., UK government websites infected with crypto-mining malware: report
(Reuters) – Thousands of websites, including ones run by U.S. and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies, technology news site The Register reported. More than 4,200 sites were infected with a malicious version of a […]
Dark Web’s largest cybercrime group indicted after stealing $530M
Infraud organization is the largest group of cybercriminals on Dark Web – Their official motto is “In Fraud We Trust.” After managing to steal over $530 million, a cybercrime ring has finally been hammered by US law enforcement authorities and its 36 members have been indicted. The accused have close ties […]
Researcher Uses macOS App Screenshot Feature to Steal Passwords, Tokens, Keys
Malicious app developers can secretly abuse a macOS API function to take screenshots of the user’s screen and then use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to programmatically read the text found in the image. The function is CGWindowListCreateImage, often utilized by Mac apps that take screenshots or live stream a user’s […]
Cyber Attack Disrupts Winter Olympics Website During Opening Ceremony
The Winter Olympics Games Organizing Committee is investigating a cyber attack on the event’s Internet and Wi-Fi system. The attack was carried out 45 minutes before the opening ceremony on Friday night in South Korea. According to the Committee’s spokeswoman, Nancy Park, the country’s Ministry of Defense and a cybersecurity team is investigating […]
fail0verflow hackers found an unpatchable flaw in Nintendo Switch bootROM and runs Linux OS
The group of hackers known as ‘fail0verflow’ has discovered a vulnerability in the gaming console Nintendo Switch that could be exploited to install a Linux distro. The hackers announced their discovery in a post on Twitter, the published an image of a console running the Debian Linux distro after the hack. View […]