Hacking

The company does not have two-factor authentication set by default High-profile accounts on Instagram are being targeted by phishing and ransomware attacks, with evidence that many are paying the attackers. Hackers are gaining access to accounts via phishing scams; posing as personal representatives from well known branding companies, they are […]

Mozilla releases security updates for Thunderbird that fixes one critical vulnerability, two high-level vulnerabilities, and three medium level vulnerabilities. Critical vulnerability CVE-2018-12376: Memory corruption issue that may allow an attacker to run arbitrary code on the vulnerable machine. The Vulnerability has a critical impact. High-level Vulnerability CVE-2018-12378: Use-after-free vulnerability occur […]

Some Windows 10 users have learned the hard way that even if upgrades have gone smoothly in the past, it’s still wise to back up files before updating the OS. Microsoft this week kicked off the Windows 10 1809 rollout, and now some users have found the update is wiping important files, […]

Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple did not disable Intel Manufacturing Mode in its laptops Experts from security firm Positive Technologies while analyzing Intel Management Engine (ME) discovered that Apple forgot did not lock it in laptops. The Intel Management Engine consists of a microcontroller that works with the […]

Facebook suffered a major security breach last week, hackers stolen more than 50 million accounts access tokens by exploiting a bug in View As a feature. The Independent reported that they spotted a number of listings on underground dark web markets offering personal data of Facebook users starting from $3. The dark […]