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Text Enhance is a text ... [read more >>] Security researcher and cybercrime consultant Hitesh Choudhary has recently held an interesting webinar on wireless network security, which contains some valuable tips on how users can protect themselves and their assets against cyberattacks.
Choudhary has published numerous research papers, offers consult... [read more >>] With only around 10 days left until the dreaded “Internet shutdown” caused by the now-infamous DNSChanger malware, experts believe that there are still around 300,000 infected computers which will most likely lose access to the web if their owners don’t act quickly. According to a study ... [read more >>] Hacking and other cybercriminal activities are considered a hobby by many Australian teens and as it turns out, at least 6 of them, from Brisbane, Sydney and Perth, are being monitored by the Australian Federal Police (AFP). Australian authorities have launched a campaign that’s meant to educate teen... [read more >>] Nigerian scams, or 419 scams (419 is the number of a section in Nigeria’s criminal code), are encountered almost daily by most internauts and we can safely argue that by now a large percentage of users are able to identify and avoid them.
However, according to Microsoft researchers, there’s a p... [read more >>] Ever since news broke out that millions of passwords belonging to LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm users have been exposed, experts from some of the world’s most renowned security companies have rushed to release advisories to once again teach internauts how to choose and safely store the precious strin... [read more >>] Many experts have been following the evolution of the recently discovered threat known as Flame, Flamer or Skywiper, especially since many believe that it has the potential to become the next Stuxnet.
One of the cleverest techniques implemented by the malware’s creators is the fact that it uses rogue... [read more >>] At the beginning of May, the FBI revealed that a man from Georgia, along with a number of accomplices, admitted to stealing more than $1.3 million (1 million EUR) after phishing the credentials of unsuspecting Internet users.
The cybercriminals defrauded people by creating web pages that replicated the leg... [read more >>] Military officials warn staff members that the risks posed by social media are high. Sites and apps that rely on GPS features to reveal someone’s location imperil missions and even lives.
Social media applications and platforms are a lot of fun and their popularity increases each day, but with that ... [read more >>] Freedom, the grey hat hacker that in the past period identified a lot of cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in some important websites, returns with other interesting finds. He discovered a number of 25 online shops from the United Kingdom containing XSS security holes.
The worrying thing is that a... [read more >>] |
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