The government’s National Cyber Security Centre said the attack involved the use of « Powershell » malware, but it did not comment on the source of the attack or which government bodies were targeted. RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi authorities said Monday they had detected an « advanced » cyber attack targeting the kingdom, in […]
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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been around as long as computers have been networked. But if your business relies on the Internet to sell products or collaborate, a DoS attack is more than a nuisance, it can be critical. Over the past few years, the number of DoS attacks […]
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Do you own an Android smartphone? If yes, then you are one of those billions of users whose smartphone is secretly gathering location data and sending it back to Google. Google has been caught collecting location data on every Android device owner since the beginning of this year (that’s for […]
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In past few months, several research groups have uncovered vulnerabilities in the Intel remote administration feature known as the Management Engine (ME) which could allow remote attackers to gain full control of a targeted computer. Now, Intel has admitted that these security vulnerabilities could « potentially place impacted platforms at risk. » […]
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The McAfee Mobile Research team recently examined a new threat, Android malware that contains a backdoor file in the executable and linkable format (ELF). The ELF file is similar to several executables that have been reported to belong to the Lazarus cybercrime group. (For more on Lazarus, read this post […]
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Even after so many efforts by Google for making its Play Store away from malware, shady apps somehow managed to fool its anti-malware protections and infect people with malicious software. A team of researchers from several security firms has uncovered two new malware campaigns targeting Google Play Store users, of […]
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A former operations manager existed for Facebook’s privacy works said the company “prioritized data gathering from its users overprotecting them from abuse.” In a clearly critical public’s feeling towards an article that published Monday, Sandy Parakilas said Facebook “has no reason to police the collection or use of data,” on its users, given […]
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The UpGuard Cyber Risk Team can now disclose that three publicly downloadable cloud-based storage servers exposed a massive amount of data collected in apparent Department of Defense intelligence-gathering operations. The repositories appear to contain billions of public internet posts and news commentary scraped from the writings of many individuals from […]
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Here we have in no particular order the top Android apps for hacking using an android smartphone. Disclaimer: These apps should be used for research purposes only 1. SpoofApp:- SpoofApp is a Caller ID Spoofing, Voice Changing and Call Recording mobile app for your iPhone, BlackBerry and Android phone. It’s a […]
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Refuting allegations that its anti-virus product helped Russian spies steal classified files from an NSA employee’s laptop, Kaspersky Lab has released more findings that suggest the computer in question may have been infected with malware. Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab on Thursday published the results of its own internal […]
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