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7-Zip vulnerability affects security devices and antivirus products

7-Zip vulnerability affects security devices and antivirus products

The 7-Zip file has been shown to be filled with two flaws, which are capable of making the security devices and antivirus products it is on vulnerable to attack, researchers say. The file is an open source Windows utility allowing users and programmers to manipulate and change the archives for extreme compression thereby decreasing the … Read more

Pornhub Introduces Bug Bounty Program To Help Stop Hack Attacks

Pornhub Introduces Bug Bounty Program To Help Stop Hack Attacks

Hacking attacks on porn sites have increased over the last few months. As recent as March a hacker breached the networks of Paper Street Media and was able to steal email addresses and passwords of users of the porn network. After that, Forbes then reported that popular porn network, Naughty America, also encountered a breach … Read more

Does Pirate Bay have as much malware as people think?

Does Pirate Bay have as much malware as people think

With modern technology and constant evolution of technology, pirating methods and virus infection methods have changed. Back then a simple no pirating stuff warning was enough to stop viruses from entering your beloved devices. Most of the virus infections were as a result of infections from data disks, which contained what are called boot sector … Read more

10-year-old Finnish boy gets $10,000 from Facebook

10-year-old Finnish boy gets $10,000 from Facebook

A 10-year-old Finnish boy got $10,000 from Facebook after had found a security flaw in the company’s image sharing social network Instagram. The strange thing is the boy is technically not even allowed to be on the social media network for at least another 3 years according to the terms and conditions of Facebook. The … Read more

Kenyan Foreign Ministry Hacked, Private Data Leaked Online

Kenyan Foreign Ministry Hacked, Private Data Leaked Online

Hackers have become one of the nuisances of the day. Some online activists who claim affiliation to the infamous Anonymous hacking group apparently began to leak documents which belonged to the Kenyan foreign ministry as part of its plan to expose corruption, both government, and corporate level, that is ever so abundant in Africa. Cyber … Read more

Waze users easily trackable on the app everywhere, study reveals

Waze users easily trackable on the app everywhere, study reveals

Chances are that if you are a user of the Google-owned driving navigation app, Waze, then hackers are probably tracking each and every one of your movements. A research conducted by researchers at the University of California Santa Barbara discovered a Waze flaw that allowed to create many ghost drivers which could monitor the activity of … Read more