Hacking
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9 million users affected by fake adware apps on Google Play store
A malicious adware family hiding as game, TV, and remote control simulator apps affected 9 million users on the Google Play Store. The adware shows full-screen advertisements and tracks the...
January 12, 2019 | Internet News -
Telegram desktop app leaked users' location when on voice calls
Telegram has a reputation for high-end privacy and security, but that doesn't make it immune to breaches. Security researcher Dhiraj Mishra discovered that Telegram's desktop version was leaking...
October 1, 2018 | Apps News -
Aadhaar cannot be hacked, claims UIDAI
UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) has denied the reports claiming that the Aadhaar enrollment software has been hacked. UIDAI has come up with a statement citing that the recent...
September 12, 2018 | Internet News -
Aadhaar database hacked; Patch likely sold on WhatsApp groups
Aadhaar data security has always remained a highly debated topic. Though there have been several reports questioning the security of the database, UIDAI has always denied these claims. In a recent...
September 11, 2018 | Internet News -
A 16-year old student hacks 90GB of 'secure' data from Apple
A 16-year old student in Melbourne, Australia, broke into Apple's network, not once but multiple times. The student was able to download 90GB of "secure" data for an entire year. He hacked...
August 17, 2018 | Internet News -
Cybercriminals targeted at least 400 industrial companies with spear-phishing attack
Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a new wave of financial spear-phishing emails disguised as legitimate procurement and accounting letters that hit at least 400 industrial organizations in an...
August 11, 2018 | Internet News -
India is the most vulnerable to the SamSam Ransomware: report
A new report from Sophos says that since its first appearance in December 2015, the SamSam ransomware has raked in almost $6 million by targeting organisations and...
August 11, 2018 | Internet News -
Beware of fraud Income Tax refund SMS
In the current technologically advanced era, scammers are making use of every chance to trick people and benefit from the same. As it is time for filing income tax, scammers have taken this route....
August 6, 2018 | Miscellaneous News -
Popular Chrome extension accused to be stealing your browser data
Browser extensions are meant to help users in several ways. However, a recent finding by security researcher Robert Theaton from San Francisco is quite worrying. A popular plugin called Stylish on...
July 6, 2018 | Internet News -
Limelight Networks launches advanced Bot Manager against cyber threats
With cyberattacks increasing in scope, sophistication and frequency, Limelight Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: LLNW) has announced a new Advanced Bot Manager option for its Limelight Web Application...
March 20, 2018 | Internet News -
GitHub successfully tackles the world’s largest DDoS attack in cyber history
GitHub, a web-based hosting service and a platform which many developers use to store codes, encountered the largest-known DDoS attack in the history of cyber attacks. The website suffered brief...
March 3, 2018 | Mobile News -
Beware! Millions of Android phones hacked to mine cryptocurrency
Mining a bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency is not as easy as investing in it. It takes a ton of processing power to mine a cryptocurrency or make a transaction. In fact, the amount of money...
February 14, 2018 | Mobile News