Author Archives: Swati Khandelwal

Facebook agrees to Stop using UK Users’ WhatsApp Data for Targeted Ads

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In August, Facebook introduced a hugely controversial data sharing plan to start harvesting data from its WhatsApp messaging app from September 25 for delivering more relevant ads on the social network.

Many users were not happy with the move, because there was no real way of opting out from the data sharing – WhatsApp users could only do so within a short period – and even if users did opt

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‘Web Of Trust’ Browser Add-On Caught Selling Users’ Data — Uninstall It Now

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Browser extensions have become a standard part of the most popular browsers and essential part of our lives for surfing the Internet.

But not all extensions can be trusted.

One such innocent looking browser add-on has been caught collecting browsing … Continue reading ‘Web Of Trust’ Browser Add-On Caught Selling Users’ Data — Uninstall It Now→

Wikileaks Gets DDoSed after Leaking 8,200 DNC Emails One Day before U.S. Election

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With just two days before the presidential election, WikiLeaks late Sunday night published a new trove of emails apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The most recent dump of more than 8,000 emails came after the whistleblowing site, on a daily basis over last four weeks, has already leaked over 50,000 emails stolen from the key figure in the DNC – Hillary Clinton’s

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China Passes Cybersecurity Law to Tighten its Control over the Internet

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China has long been known for its strict censorship policies, which has already made it difficult for foreign companies to do business in the world’s most populous country of more than 1.35 Billion people.

Now, the Chinese government has approved a br… Continue reading China Passes Cybersecurity Law to Tighten its Control over the Internet→

Over 1 Billion Mobile App Accounts can be Hijacked Remotely with this Simple Hack

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Security researchers have discovered a way to target a huge number of Android and iOS apps that could allow them to remotely sign into any victim’s mobile app account without any knowledge of the victim.

A group of three researchers – Ronghai Yang, Wing Cheong Lau, and Tianyu Liu – from the Chinese University of Hong Kong has found [PPT] that most of the popular mobile apps that support

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Wi-Fi can be turned into IMSI Catcher to Track Cell Phone Users Everywhere

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Here’s a new danger to your smartphone security: Your mobile device can be hijacked and tracked without your knowledge.

Remember Stingrays?

The controversial cell phone spying tool, also known as “IMSI catchers,” has long been used by law enforcement… Continue reading Wi-Fi can be turned into IMSI Catcher to Track Cell Phone Users Everywhere→

Someone is Using Mirai Botnet to Shut Down Internet for an Entire Country

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Note — We have published an updated article on what really happened behind the alleged DDoS attack against Liberia using Mirai botnet.

Someone is trying to take down the whole Internet of a country, and partially succeeded, by launching massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using a botnet of insecure IoT devices infected by the Mirai malware.

It all started early October when

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Critical Flaws in MySQL Give Hackers Root Access to Server (Exploits Released)

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Over a month ago we reported about two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the world’s 2nd most popular database management software MySQL:

MySQL Remote Root Code Execution (CVE-2016-6662)
Privilege Escalation (CVE-2016-6663)

At that time, Polish se… Continue reading Critical Flaws in MySQL Give Hackers Root Access to Server (Exploits Released)→

Multiple Critical Remotely Exploitable Flaws Discovered in Memcached Caching System

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Hey Webmasters, are you using Memcached to boost the performance of your website?

Beware! It might be vulnerable to remote hackers.

Three critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities have been reported in Memcached by security researcher Aleksandar… Continue reading Multiple Critical Remotely Exploitable Flaws Discovered in Memcached Caching System→

Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Using Unpatched Windows Bug Disclosed by Google

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Google’s Threat Analysis Group publically disclosed on Monday a critical zero-day vulnerability in most versions of Windows just 10 days after privately disclosed both zero days to Microsoft and Adobe.

While Adobe rushed an emergency patch for its Fla… Continue reading Microsoft Says Russian Hackers Using Unpatched Windows Bug Disclosed by Google→