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Prime Minister Theresa May wants tech companies, like Facebook, Apple, and Google, to create controversial ‘backdoors’ for police, but even somewhere she knows that it’s not that easy as it sounds.
The Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committ… Continue reading European Parliament Proposes Ban On Encryption Backdoors
After years of waiting, Mozilla last week launched Firefox 54 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android, with multi-process support — a “major improvement” to improve your browsing experience — but many users are still struggling to take advantage of this feature.
Mozilla’s multi-process support in Firefox has been in development for over eight years as part of a project, codenamed Electrolysis or
Continue reading How to Speed Up Firefox With Multi-Process, If It’s Not Working By Default
A British computer hacker who allegedly hacked a United States Department of Defense satellite system in 2014 and accessed the personal information of hundreds of military personnel has pleaded guilty on Thursday.
Sean Caffrey, a 25-year-old resident … Continue reading 25-Year-Old Hacker Pleads Guilty to Hacking U.S. Military Satellite Phone System
The Pirate Bay — a widely popular file-sharing website predominantly used to share copyrighted material free of charge — is once again in trouble, this time in Europe.
The European Union Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled today that Dutch ISPs can block access to The Pirate Bay, as the Swedish file-hosting website facilitates an “act of communication” by allowing users to post and obtain torrents
Continue reading ISPs Should Block ‘The Pirate Bay’ Torrent Site: Top European Court Rules
Did you know… last month’s widespread WannaCry ransomware attack forced Microsoft to release security updates against EternalBlue SMB exploit for unsupported versions of Windows, but the company left other three Windows zero-day exploits unpatched?
For those unaware, EternalBlue is a Windows SMB flaw that was leaked by the Shadow Brokers in April and then abused by the WannaCry ransomware to
Continue reading Microsoft Releases Patches for 3 Remaining NSA Windows Exploits
Over 800 different Android apps that have been downloaded millions of times from Google Play Store found to be infected with malicious ad library that silently collects sensitive user data and can perform dangerous operations.
Dubbed “Xavier,” the mal… Continue reading Beware! Over 800 Android Apps on Google Play Store Contain ‘Xavier’ Malware
WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within just 72 hours.
Governments, Intelligence agencies and l… Continue reading French Police Seize 6 Tor Relay Servers in WannaCry Investigation
Social media networks are no doubt a quick and powerful way to share information and ideas, but not everything shared on Facebook or Twitter is true.
Misinformation, or “Fake News,” has emerged as a primary issue for social media platforms, seeking to… Continue reading Hackers Are Using An Effective Way to Spread Fake News From Verified Accounts
A new Android-rooting malware with an ability to disable device’ security settings in an effort to perform malicious tasks in the background has been detected on the official Play Store.
What’s interesting? The app was smart enough to fool Google security mechanism by first pretending itself to be a clean app and then temporarily replacing it with a malicious version.
Security researchers at
Continue reading First Android-Rooting Trojan With Code Injection Ability Found On Google Play Store
“Disable macros and always be extra careful when you manually enable it while opening Microsoft Office Word documents.”
You might have heard of above-mentioned security warning multiple times on the Internet as hackers usually leverage this decade old… Continue reading Beware! This Microsoft PowerPoint Hack Installs Malware Without Requiring Macros