Security
Saturday Morning Security Spotlight: Jail Breaks and Cyberattacks
This post was originally published here by Jacob Serpa. Here are the top cybersecurity stories of recent weeks: Man attempts prison break through cyberattacks Mailsploit allows for perfect phishing attacks 1.4 billion credentials found in dark web database Starbucks WiFi hijacks connected devices Hackers target cryptocurrency employees for bitcoins Man attempts prison break through cyberattacks […]
Top 5 Cybersecurity Threats of 2018!
The year 2017 witnessed some of the biggest cyber attacks of all times. This includes WannaCry Cyber Attack propelled by North Korea targeting more than 250,000 computers worldwide, NotPetya cyber attack on companies operating in Ukraine & Russia and the much-publicized Equifax data breach which even led to the resignation of the CEO after data […]
Cloud Security Alliance releases newly formulated security practices for Startups
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), a world-leading organization dedicated to raising awareness on cloud security has released newly formulated guidelines for Startups to comply with CSA Code of Conduct for GDPR Compliance. The security practices were released to guide cloud customers, potential customers and cloud service providers on the latest obligations budding from the European General […]
Pentagon Contractor exposes US Web Monitoring Program by disregarding Cloud Security
A Pentagon Contractor has exposed the US military-sponsored Web Monitoring Program by accidentally revealing 1.8 billion social media posts stored on Amazon Storage Buckets. And this technical blunder happened when the contractor failed to configure the S3 bucket from the public to private. The incident was brought to the notice of the media when a […]
Google declares that its Pixel 2 is immune to Cyber Attacks!
Google has made it official that its newly launched Google Pixel 2 Smartphone is immune to Cyber Attacks. The internet juggernaut announced that its new device is enriched with tamper-resistant hardware security to deliver enterprise-grade security which is in addition to its Nougat OS file-based encryption feature. The Alphabet’s subsidiary announced that Pixel 2 and […]
Trump Administration formulates new laws for disclosing Cyber Security Flaws
US President Donald Trump’s administration has formulated new laws for disclosing cybersecurity flaws or to keep them as secret. The newly designed laws which are now reflecting on whitehouse.gov website are intended to shed light on the process for how various federal agencies will have to face consequences for keeping cyber flaws as a secret. […]
Here’s a Mobile Security Alert for Google Assistant Users!
Are you an ardent fan of Google Assistant? Do you use it for communication, transit, shopping, web search and other day to day mobile operations? If so, you got to take a note of this mobile security alert on an immediate note. Google’s Smart Voice Assistant is said to be recording your private conversation and […]
Mobile Security alert on Samsung, OnePlus and Lenovo Smartphones
Chinese Smartphone maker OnePlus is accused of shipping its devices with a diagnostic app that allows root superuser access to its Smartphone users, potentially exposing sensitive data. The flaw was first discovered by mobile security research Robert Baptiste, who discovered the vulnerability in June this year. Baptiste found that OnePlus was shipping devices with Qualcomm […]
Google Security Report brands phishing as biggest Cyber Threat!
Google in association with the University of California conducted a recent study in which it discovered how user accounts are being hijacked in practical. Thus, in this process, the web search giant came to a conclusion that many users were following a procedure of using a single login to access different web services. And this […]
Google offers mobile security bulletin for Google Pixel and Nexus Phones
Google has offered a new mobile security bulletin specifically for Google Pixel and Nexus Phones. And the update released in November contains an innovative feature of Functional Updates which can easily fix operational bugs on the said devices. According to the details available to our Cybersecurity Insiders, Google has released 11 security patches on November […]
