Apple removes VPN Apps from the China App Store

In order to comply with Chinese censorship law, Apple has started removing all virtual private network (VPN) apps from the App Store in China, making it harder for internet users to bypass its Great Firewall.

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Microsoft Is Paying Up To $250,000 With Its New Bug Bounty Program

Microsoft has finally launched a new dedicated bug bounty program to encourage security researchers and bug hunters for finding and responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in its latest Windows versions of operating systems and software.

Being the favourite target of hackers and cyber criminals, every single zero-day vulnerability in Windows OS—from critical remote code execution, mitigation

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Russia Bans Proxy Services And VPNs To Purge Extremist Content

Earlier this year, China announced a crackdown on VPNs and proxy services in the country and made it mandatory for all VPN providers and leased cable lines operators to have a license from the government in order to use such services.

Now, Russia is a… Continue reading Russia Bans Proxy Services And VPNs To Purge Extremist Content

Researcher Claims Samsung’s Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs!

A researcher has claimed that Samsung’s Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung products is so poorly programmed that it could contain nearly 27,000 programming errors, which could also lead to thousands of vulnerabilities.

Tizen is a … Continue reading Researcher Claims Samsung’s Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs!

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercr… Continue reading Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison

Google Silently Adds ‘Panic Detection Mode” to Android 7.1 – How It’s Useful

How often do you click the ‘back’ or the ‘Home’ button on your mobile device to exit an application immediately?

I believe, several times in a single day because a large number of apps do not have an exit button to directly force-close them instead of going back and back and back until they exit.

Sometimes Android users expect the back button to take them back to the back page, but sometimes

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AlphaBay Dark Web Market Goes Down; Users Fear Exit-Scam

AlphaBay Market, one of the largest Dark Web marketplaces for drugs, guns, and other illegal goods, suddenly disappeared overnight without any explanation from its admins, leaving its customers who have paid large sums in panic.

AlphaBay, also known a… Continue reading AlphaBay Dark Web Market Goes Down; Users Fear Exit-Scam

China Shuts Down Popular VPN Services to Make Great Firewall Stronger

Online Privacy has been one of the biggest challenges in today’s interconnected world, as the governments across the world have been found censoring the Internet, stealing information and conducting mass surveillance on innocent people.

China is one s… Continue reading China Shuts Down Popular VPN Services to Make Great Firewall Stronger

UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service

A teenage student has been charged with running a supplying malware that was used for launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites of some of the world’s leading businesses.

Jack Chappell, an 18-year-old teenager from Stockp… Continue reading UK Teenager, Aged 18, Charged With Running DDoS-For-Hire Service

WordPress Plugin Used by 300,000+ Sites Found Vulnerable to SQL Injection Attack

A SQL Injection vulnerability has been discovered in one of the most popular Wordpress plugins, installed on over 300,000 websites, which could be exploited by hackers to steal databases and possibly hijack the affected sites remotely.

The flaw has be… Continue reading WordPress Plugin Used by 300,000+ Sites Found Vulnerable to SQL Injection Attack