Author Archives: Rakesh Krishnan

DARPA Invites Geeks to Convert Everyday Objects into Deadly Weapons

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Do you know that your daily household items can be turned into deadly weapons?

Yes, it’s possible to convert some of your everyday household appliances into explosives, weapons or surveillance devices.

DARPA – the agency which does research in various fields for improving the US Military and US Department of Defense capabilities – had announced a new project dubbed “Improv” to transform

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Russia Rejects Google’s Appeal and Orders to Stop Pre-Installing its own Android Apps

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The Giant search engine Google has lost an anti-monopoly appeal in Russia against ruling related to its Android mobile OS

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Monday ruled that Google had violated its dominant position with the help of its free open source mobile platform “Android” by forcing its own apps and services like Youtube, Google Map, and others, on users — reducing competition.

The

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After Apple, WhatsApp Under Fire from US Govt Over Encryption

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Before winding up the dispute of Apple and FBI over encryption, another buzz on the Whatsapp Snooping is now the hot debate on the court bench.

In the wake of WhatsApp’s move to offer end-to-end encryption to text messages as well as VoIP calls made… Continue reading After Apple, WhatsApp Under Fire from US Govt Over Encryption→

‘Guccifer,’ who Hacked former President, to be extradited to the US

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Upon the request of US authorities, Marcel Lazar Lehel, well known as Guccifer, has finally been approved to extradite to the United States to face Computer Intrusion and Identity Theft Charges for 18 months.

Guccifer is an infamous Romanian hacker wh… Continue reading ‘Guccifer,’ who Hacked former President, to be extradited to the US→

Hack the Pentagon — US Government Challenges Hackers to Break its Security

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The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has the plan to boost their internal and network security by announcing what it calls “the first cyber Bug Bounty Program in the history of the federal government,” officially inviting hackers to take up th… Continue reading Hack the Pentagon — US Government Challenges Hackers to Break its Security→

CTB-Locker Ransomware Spreading Rapidly, Infects Thousands of Web Servers

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In last few years, we saw an innumerable rise in ransomware threats ranging from Cryptowall to Locky ransomware discovered last week.

Now, another genre of ransomware had been branched out from the family of CTB-Locker Ransomware with an update to infect “Websites”, according to Lawrence Abrams of BleepingComputer.

The newly transformed ransomware dubbed “CTB-Locker for Websites”

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Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads and Malware into Web Pages

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China has gained a considerable global attention when it comes to their Internet policies in the past years; whether it’s introducing its own search engine dubbed “Baidu,” Great Firewall of China, its homebrew China Operating System (COP) and many more… Continue reading Chinese ISPs Caught Injecting Ads and Malware into Web Pages→

Apple is working on New iPhone Even It Can’t Hack

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Amid an ongoing dispute with the United States government over a court order to unlock iPhone 5C of one of the San Bernardino shooters Syed Farook…

…Apple started working on implementing stronger security measures “even it can’t hack” to achieve un-hackability in its future iPhones.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is deliberately forcing Apple to create a special, backdoored

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Asus Faces 20 years of Audits Over Poor Wi-Fi Router Security

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Currently, Asus is undergoing through a troublesome situation after a lawsuit had been filed by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding its Router Insecurity.

On Tuesday, FTC settled charges with Asus, where the hardware manufacturing compan… Continue reading Asus Faces 20 years of Audits Over Poor Wi-Fi Router Security→

NSA Data Center Experiencing 300 Million Hacking Attempts Per Day

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Utah State computer systems are experiencing a massive cyber attack on up to 300 Million Hacking attempts per day due to National Security Agency’s (NSA) data center in the state.

Yes, 300,000,000 hacking attempts in a day!

According to the statistical survey, it is evident that the computer systems in the US State of Utah began to experience the hacking attack a few years back,

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