A new report has revealed the countries which are thought off as most vulnerable to hacking attacks, thanks to a heat map of the Internet which scanned the Internet for servers which have their front doors open. The security firm Rapid7 did the heat map, and the list showed that the most exposed country in … Read more
Things for Internet users in Malaysia are rather grim, to say the least. They actually have one of the worst Internet infrastructures in the world, and it is tightly controlled by authorities. Believe it or not, Reporters Without Borders ranked Malaysia as 147th out of 180 countries in their 2014 report, which is pretty darn … Read more
Security researchers might have found a major flaw in the Facebook Messenger app which might have some serious legal ramifications. The flaw might cause waves in the judicial decisions which will be sent to the appeal court and any commercial agreements which were sent into disarray. Researchers at Check Point told reporters at a conference … Read more
It seems like a day can’t pass by without any situation where accounts on social media networks are hacked. In the new and upcoming story, 100 million users’ accounts of the Russian popular version of Facebook, VK.com are currently being traded on the underground market. LeakedSource also released obtained data that they had managed to … Read more
Researchers have discovered a new family of malware which is designed for the sole purpose of disrupting some core industrial systems. Security experts over at FireEye said that they had discovered malware which was created so as to disrupt the industrial control systems which were running the Siemens control system environments. The malware was called … Read more
PayPal is one of the most popular online payment methods in existence, and it comes as no surprise that just about every reputable website accepts PayPal payments in addition to credit cards. In the past, checks, debit and credit cards, money orders, and other payment mediums were all the rage, only to be replaced with … Read more
A Facebook-inspired social media network has been built in North Korea. The news of the new social media network started surfacing after researchers at the firm Dyn had stumbled upon the new social media network on the Internet rather than on North Korea’s internal system called Kwangmyong. The design is believed to be nothing but … Read more
Popcorn Time on Crhomecast Are you a movie buff or a popcorn addict? If so, you’re going to love Popcorn Time. Despite its massive success, setbacks, and media attention, there are still a lot of film aficionados that don’t know what Popcorn Time is. Even less know how to use it with Chromecast. For that … Read more
Microblogging platform and social media network, Tumblr was hacked 3 years ago, but the company just discovered it now. The breached data which contained email addresses and passwords for its users was seen on the underground Internet market. Troy Hunt, a security researcher, recently got hold of the security breach data. He is well known … Read more
After Adobe recently patched the CVE-2016-4117 flaw that had been terrorizing users out there, other hackers have found ways to incorporate the exploit that was patched into some of their cyber attack tools, and now they have started to infect devices with the result of the tools they are using. FireEye, a security research company, … Read more