How to Protect Yourself From an Attack
Spear-Phishing Even with the number of messaging apps available now, companies still use email. On average, a person receives over a hundred emails a...
Hackers
GitHub Account of Canonical Hacked, PII Source Code Safe
On 6th July Canonical owned account on GitHub was hacked and credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities....
Definition and Importance of an Information Security Analyst
The information security analyst is an important role in any organization, since they keep sensitive information secure. They work with the different departments to...
Second US City Pays Hackers For Ransomware
A city in Florida paid $ 500,000 to the hackers after a ransomware attack. The total amount the city of Florida has paid for...
Flaws in LTE can allow hackers to spoof presidential alerts
Last year, the United States performed the first public test of the national Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA), an alert system designed to send messages...
Evernote Critical Flaw Could Have Impacted Millions of Users
A critical flaw that affected Evernote’s web clipper extension for Chrome could have impacted millions of users. Reports say that the critical flaw in...
Compromised Docker Hosts Use Shodan for Cryptocurrency Mining
Researchers have detected a campaign in which compromised docker hosts use Shodan for carrying out cryptocurrency mining. Hackers scan for Docker hosts with exposed...
ScarCruft, An Anti-North Korean Hacking Team
Malware authors continue to find ways to operate at a more sophisticated level, especially Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). Known as ScarCruft team, as exposed...
Ransomware Attack Impacts Baltimore Emails, Online Payments
Some key online operations in the U.S city of Baltimore have been impacted following a ransomware attack. Reports reveal that all online payment gateways...
Targeted Surveillance Attack on Whatsapp
on Tuesday, May 14, 2019 | The Facebook owned entity was recently a target of the hackers who had the option to remotely install...