Living in a modern digital era of computers can bring a lot of risks including data exfiltration to you and your PC. Computers are extremely vulnerable, and if the person on the other side of your network knows how to find the exact loophole in the system – you may suffer […]
Cybersecurity
Russian pipeline giant Transneft’s computers hit with malware that covertly mined cryptocurrency
This isn’t the first time a company’s website was found to have cryptomining software embedded in it. Russian pipeline giant Transneft said on Friday (15 December) that its computer systems were infected with malware that secretly mined cryptocurrency. The world’s largest oil pipeline company added that it cleared its systems […]
Synaptics to Remove « Keylogger » Functionality From Drivers
Synaptics says recent reports inaccurately characterized a debugging tool found in its touchpad drivers as a keylogger, but the company has decided to remove the functionality from its products. Earlier this month, a researcher reported finding what appeared to be keylogger functionality in a Synaptics touchpad driver shipped with hundreds […]
Fortinet’s FortiClient Product Exposed VPN Credentials
Updates released by Fortinet for its FortiClient product patch a serious information disclosure vulnerability that can be exploited to obtain VPN authentication credentials. FortiClient is a next-generation endpoint protection product that includes web filtering, application firewall, vulnerability assessment, anti-malware, and SSL and IPsec VPN features for desktop and mobile systems […]
Data release: list of websites that have third-party “session replay” scripts
Here’s the list of 1,239 popular websites using third-party “session replay” scripts to record your every keystroke and mouse movement. In a recent study we analyzed seven “session replay” services and revealed how they exfiltrate sensitive user data. Here we release the data behind our study, specifically, the list of […]
Only 12% or organizations are likely to detect a sophisticated cyber attack
Organizations believe that today’s cyber threat landscape places them at high risk of cyber attacks. The EY survey of nearly 1,200 C-level leaders of the world’s largest and most recognized organizations examines some of the most urgent concerns about cybersecurity and their efforts to manage them. Findings show that […]
UK government has ordered telecom companies to stop using “upto” in their broadband speeds
In future, adverts must be based on what is possible to at least half of consumers at peak times. It follows study that suggested broadband broadcasting can be misleading for customers. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) examined into consumers’ perception of broadband speed claims and discovered that many were confused […]
Firefox to collaborate with HaveIBeenPwned to alert users on data breach
Mozilla is joining hands with popular data breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned.com (HIBP) to send an in-browser alert to Firefox browser users if they are visiting a site that was previously hacked and whether their login credentials have been involved in a data breach. “This is an addon that I’m going to be […]
Tips for Making Your Business Secure from Digital Crimes
Things may be going well for your business and if so great. But there’s always the threat of cybercrime looming over your online ventures. Whether it is to initiate a marketing campaign or to go about day-to-day communications through emails; today every business has an online presence as everything is […]
ProtonMail bolts on an encrypted contacts manager and digital signing for contacts
Another neat addition to end-to-end encrypted email client ProtonMail: It’s added a zero-access encrypted contacts manager that also digitally signs the contact info you store in it. The new features have been added to v3.12 of ProtonMail’s web client, with the Swiss-based startup saying it’s working on also bringing the […]