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By Uzair Amir
Instagram down? You are not alone; Instagram is down for everyone. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook. Yes, the photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram has been hit by a worldwide servic… Continue reading Instagram down: Social networking site suffering service outage
By Uzair Amir
The cop thought he was talking to an underage girl but it was a grown-up man using Snapchat’s gender filter. A 20-year old student from California’s San Francisco Bay Area used the much-criticized gender-swapping filter of Snapchat to cat… Continue reading Student uses Snapchat’s gender filter to bust pervert cop
By Uzair Amir
Triada Banking Trojan came Preinstalled as Backdoor in Budget Android Smartphones- Google Confirms. It would probably be the first time ever in Google’s history that the company has revealed details of the tenacity and success of ma… Continue reading Google confirms presence of Triada backdoor in cheap Android phones
By Uzair Amir
Turkish hackers left a message protesting against Ireland on a Twitter account owned by India actor. The official Twitter account of Bollywood’s legend Amitabh Bachchan has apparently been hacked by Turkish hacking group calling its… Continue reading Amitabh Bachchan’s Twitter hacked with photo of Pakistani PM Imran Khan
By Uzair Amir
On Thursday, June 6th (9:43 am UTC), Europe’s leading mobile providers received a shock when a large chunk of the traffic destined to reach them was misdirected or rerouted to another path by the network of a Chinese state-operated teleco… Continue reading China’s BGP rerouting leaves European mobile carriers stranded for 2 hours
By Uzair Amir
Clinical laboratory firm Quest Diagnostics Inc. has admitted exposure of personal information of nearly 11.9 million customers after its web payment page was accessed by an unauthorized individual. In a press release, the company revealed… Continue reading Quest Diagnostics data breach affects 12 million customers
By Uzair Amir
Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just yesterday, it was reported that the online graphic-design tool website Canva had suffered a massive data breach i… Continue reading News aggregator app Flipboard hacked; user data stolen
By Uzair Amir
Canva has contacted the FBI to investigate the data breach. Canva, an online graphic-design tool website operated from Australia has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 139 million registered users has been stole… Continue reading Online graphic-design tool Canva hacked; 139 million accounts stolen
By Uzair Amir
The laptop is a Samsung model now known as ‘Persistence of Chaos’ due to dangerous malware infection. A few days ago it was reported that a laptop (2008 Samsung 10.2-inch – NC10-14GB netbook) infected with some of the more dangerous… Continue reading World’s most dangerous laptop has been sold for $1.3 million
By Uzair Amir
This time the hacking tool being used is EternalBlue. The New York Times has reported that the recent ransomware attacks in major US cities specifically Baltimore are closely linked together due to the fact that the key component in all t… Continue reading Baltimore city ransomware attack is powered by stolen NSA hacking tool