Collaborate Disseminate
Vulnerabilities like StageFright were identified and fixed a few years back, and any self-respecting company would have taken note of that and examined their software for similar bugs. So it’s surprising that despite the bug … Continue reading What was the security flaw in WhatsApp that NSO exploited?
I’m Indian, and have received a third job email from a Canadian “Co-founder and COO”. I’m not even actively job searching.
He hasn’t mentioned how he got my mail id or why I’m the right fit
for the job.
Google’s “secret sa… Continue reading Finding out if a series of job emails from the same person are a scam or a way of tracking/phishing?
There’s a long dispute across the Internet community about the risks related to free public Wi-Fi. Some information security-related Web sites which look rather trustworthy even say that you should never use public WiFi becau… Continue reading Why is public free Wi-Fi available even though many people say it’s dangerous? [on hold]
I use Ubuntu 16.04. After I mounted an ISO which may or may not have had malware in it, my system sometimes ends up showing a blank screen after logging into Ubuntu or reboots a minute or two after I log into Ubuntu or like today, when it … Continue reading Can malware have its own GRUB/boot-loader and use it to be active?
I saw a message on the latest Firefox default homepage, advising a Data Detox. It led to this website which recommends going through an 8 day detox procedure. Their about page does not say anything about them other that they … Continue reading Data Detox: Are the people behind myshadow.org trustworthy? [on hold]
This is specifically for Ubuntu, but if you’d like to include a reply that’d help Windows users, please do.
Background:
I’m working on the suspicion that there’s malware on my neighbour’s laptop, desktop PC and a external … Continue reading Malware: Is there a difference between automounting vs manually mounting?
Laptop config:
This is a laptop with Genuine Windows 8, so during installation there is a recovery partition (600MB. 247MB used) created and I think it created a Microsoft reserved partition of 128MB too. There is also an EFI… Continue reading Safe method of cleaning a very persistent virus that damages a partition filesystem?
This is for a computer that has many different people plug in their pen drives into, for taking printouts. As a result, the computer is always infected with all kinds of Windows viruses.
Once the partitions of the system a… Continue reading Is it possible to safely access a USB pen drive in Windows via a virtual box with Linux?
A few decades ago, I’ve known hard disks and floppy disks which developed bad sectors or crashed. So now when I want to use an external hard disk for backups for a startup company, the first thing that worries me is that if I… Continue reading Data encryption risk with bad sectors?