Snapchat’s New Test: Grow Like Facebook, Without the Baggage In today’s social media industry, you essentially have two options: Die young, or live long enough to turn into Facebook. Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, appears to be headed down the latter path. After a disappointing earnings report last week, […]
UK spymasters suspect Russia is using Kaspersky to spy on people
United States’s intelligence agency, the National Security Agency, is considered as one of the world’s largest and secretive intelligence agency, has been reportedly hacked, robbed, mocked, and breached by an anonymous hacker. A cybersecurity expert who worked with on the NSA’s hacking group, Jake Williams had written on his company […]
PHISHING BIGGEST THREAT TO GOOGLE ACCOUNT SECURITY
Last year may have been mostly about ransomware, but it’s difficult to forget the billion or so passwords that were spilled in high-profile breaches and credential leaks. Google and researchers from the University of California Berkeley attempted to ease some of that pain, and teamed up to analyze how cybercriminals […]
New Vulnerability Exploits Antivirus Programs to Install Malware
New Vulnerability Exploits Antivirus Programs to Install Malware It is common notion that antivirus software keeps our computers safe from all types of bugs and malware. However, it seems that cybercriminals are hell-bent on changing this belief by using these programs for fulfilling their malicious objectives. As per the findings […]
OnePlus Left A Backdoor That Allows Root Access Without Unlocking Bootloader
OnePlus Left A Backdoor That Allows Root Access Without Unlocking Bootloader Another terrible news for OnePlus users. Just over a month after OnePlus was caught collecting personally identifiable information on its users, the Chinese smartphone company has been found leaving a backdoor on almost all OnePlus handsets. A Twitter user, […]
Android security: Google cracks down on apps that want to use accessibility services
Android security: Google cracks down on apps that want to use accessibility services Google has told Android developers that they won’t be able to publish their applications on the Google Play store if the app uses accessibility services for anything other than its intended purpose. Officially, accessibility services is an […]
The Apple Watch can accurately detect hypertension and sleep apnea, a new study suggests
The Apple Watch can accurately detect hypertension and sleep apnea, a new study suggests A new study out from health startup Cardiogram and the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) suggests wearables like the Apple Watch, Fitbit and others are able to accurately detect common but serious conditions like hypertension […]
New Banking Trojan IcedID Discovered by IBM X-Force Research
New Banking Trojan IcedID Discovered by IBM X-Force Research IBM X-Force research follows developments in the financial cybercrime arena to map the events and trends that shape the threat landscape for organizations and consumers alike. After a year that has been very active in terms of banking malware, point-of-sale (POS) […]
Sur Android, une nouvelle fonctionnalité vous indique quelles applications vident votre batterie
Sur Android, une nouvelle fonctionnalité vous indique quelles applications vident votre batterie Sur une version d’essai d’Android, Google teste une fonctionnalité qui indique quelles sont les applications très énergivores, ainsi que les raisons pour lesquelles elles le sont. Aujourd’hui, nos vies tournent autour de nos smartphones. Mais malheureusement, ceux-ci […]
Ethereum Parity Wallet freeze that locked up $280 million in Ether was a hack, claims Cappasity
According to the startup Cappasity the Ethereum Parity Wallet freeze that locked up $280 million in Ether was deliberately triggered by someone. A few days ago the firm Parity Technologies made the headlines because someone has accidentally triggered a vulnerability in the popular Parity Wallet that locked up $280 million in […]