Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA), a consumer interests group, has published a report outlining how piracy sites distribute malware. According to the report, 33 percent of pirate sites distribute malware. DCA continues to explain how companies such as Cloudflare assist these piracy sites. For many years, businesses in the entertainment industry have tried to get rid … Read more
The 2016 Olympics Games in Rio de Janeiro is an event for the athletes. However, there are indications, already, that cyber attackers are interested in the event. Hackers from around the globe will pose all kinds of cyber threats. The cyber threats are necessary targeting athletes. People visiting Brazil to watch the games and people … Read more
Let’s continue dissecting VPNs. Next in line is Le VPN, which is an online privacy service based in France. A trustworthy VPN provider, Le VPN was developed by a team of renowned information security specialists and launched in the year 2010. Since then, it has spread its reaches over various countries in Europe and other … Read more
Canonical publicly declared that it was victim to a data breach. It told members that the hack compromised personal data. Canonical is the developer of the open source operating system, Ubuntu. According to a report published by Canonical CEO, Jane Silber, the hackers accessed the forums database on 14th July. After the breach, canonical temporarily … Read more
Criminals have found a very effective way of planting banking malware and draining accounts. Criminals are always on the lookout for new methods of stealing money from unsuspecting hardworking people. A criminal gang has now found a way to put account-draining Trojan in systems. According to Kaspersky’s blog post published on Monday, the criminals hid … Read more
If you have been following the news carefully, you’ll probably be aware of the San Bernardino incident that has rekindled a very old debate. Should personal security and freedom be absolute, or should there be limitations on it, just for the sake of safeguarding ourselves collectively from foreboding threats. In such a world, if security … Read more
The latest trend of ransomware attacks says, one in ten of such cybercriminal activities where CTB-Locker, Locky and like ransomware are involved, targets are business networks. According to new Kaspersky Labs report on ransomware, cyber criminals are now shifting their attention to corporate networks because they know crypto-ransomware is extremely effective and working. Further, it … Read more
Last year hackers showed that they could control a moving jeep. Moreover, now Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has come up with a method to motivate the hackers to find security flaws in their automobiles; by paying them. In this Bug Bounty program, the Italian-U.S. automaker will be paying between $150 to $1500 to those hackers, who … Read more
The Internet without restrictions. Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Well, that is what TunnelBear aims to provide with its slick and simple VPN for various kinds of operating systems. This Canada-based VPN provider aims to reach out to the audience that doesn’t know much about VPNs but wants to avail all the advantages provided in the environment set … Read more
Pokemon Go has reached 10 million downloads while it has been just a week since its release on 6th July, this is enough to show how viral the game is going in the current time. While you will be out collecting Pokemon this week, a company which was once was a part of Google will … Read more