Telegram Agrees to Register With Russia to Avoid Ban, But Won’t Share User Data

After being threatened with a ban in Russia, end-to-end encrypted Telegram messaging app has finally agreed to register with new Russian Data Protection Laws, but its founder has assured that the company will not comply to share users’ confidential dat… Continue reading Telegram Agrees to Register With Russia to Avoid Ban, But Won’t Share User Data

WikiLeaks Reveals How CIA Malware Tracks Geo-Location of its Targeted

WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, and this time the whistleblowing website has unveiled a classified malware for that tracks geo-location of targeted PCs and laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system.

I… Continue reading WikiLeaks Reveals How CIA Malware Tracks Geo-Location of its Targeted

Critical Skype Bug Lets Hackers Remotely Execute Malicious Code

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft-owned most popular free web messaging and voice calling service Skype that could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code and crash systems.

Skype is a free online service that allows u… Continue reading Critical Skype Bug Lets Hackers Remotely Execute Malicious Code

Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia has threatened a ban against Telegram end-to-end encrypted messaging app, after Pavel Durov, its founder, refused to sign up to the country’s new data protection laws.

Russia’s FSB intelligence service said on Monday that the terrorists who kil… Continue reading Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

Russia has threatened to ban Telegram end-to-end encrypted messaging app, after Pavel Durov, its founder, refused to sign up to the country’s new data protection laws.

Russian intelligence service, the FSB, said on Monday that the terrorists that kill… Continue reading Russia Threatens to Ban Telegram Messaging App, Says It Was Used By Terrorists

UK Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Up to 90 MPs’ E-mail Accounts Hacked

A cyber attack has hit the email system of UK Houses of Parliament on Friday morning that breached at least 90 emails accounts protected by weak passwords belonging to MPs, lawmakers, and other parliamentary staff.

Meanwhile, as a precaution, the Secu… Continue reading UK Parliament Hit by Cyberattack, Up to 90 MPs’ E-mail Accounts Hacked

Microsoft’s Private Windows 10 Internal Builds and Partial Source Code Leaked Online

A massive archive of Microsoft’s top-secret Windows 10 builds, and the source codes for private software has been reportedly leaked online, which could lead to a nasty wave of Windows 10 exploits, journalist at the Reg claims.

The Leaked files – uploaded on BetaArchive website – contains more than 32 terabytes of data, which includes many non-public Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 builds

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Next Windows 10 Version May Have Built-in EMET Anti-Exploit Program

It seems Microsoft is planning to build its EMET anti-exploit tool into the kernel of Windows 10 Creator Update (also known as RedStone 3), which is expected to release in September/October 2017.

So you may not have to separately download and install … Continue reading Next Windows 10 Version May Have Built-in EMET Anti-Exploit Program

Microsoft to Remove SMBv1 Protocol in Next Windows 10 Version (RedStone 3)

The Server Message Block version 1 (SMBv1) — a 30-year-old file sharing protocol which came to light last month after the devastating WannaCry outbreak — will be removed from the upcoming Windows 10 (1709) Redstone 3 Update.

The SMBv1 is one of the internet’s most ancient networking protocols that allows the operating systems and applications to read and write data to a system and a system to

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Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Hackers to Get Files Back

South Korean web hosting provider has agreed to pay $1 million in bitcoins to hackers after a Linux ransomware infected its 153 servers, encrypting 3,400 business websites and their data, hosted on them.

According to a blog post published by NAYANA, t… Continue reading Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million to Ransomware Hackers to Get Files Back