Computer security researchers have uncovered a new flaw in Microsoft Windows operating system dubbed ‘Redirect to SMB,’ which could be exploited by hackers to steal sensitive login credentials from any device running…
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Chinese hackers spying on India, South-East Asia for almost a decade: Research
Chinese government sponsored hackers have been spying on governments and businesses in Southeast Asia and India for at least a decade, researchers from internet security company FireEye have revealed. According to FireEye’s…
Content.ad forgets to renew SSL certificate
[Update: The SSL certificate was renewed hours later. Navigating to the site now doesn’t throw the SSL error any more.] In what can be dubbed as a rather ‘rookie’ mistake administrators at…
One-third of global organizations not prepared to face advanced cyber threats
Around one-third of global organizations are not well prepared to face advanced cyber threats as they don’t have formal incident response plans, a new survey has found. The global breach readiness survey,…
Google disables around 200 bad Chrome browser extensions
Google has weeded out around 200 Chrome browser extensions in an attempt to save its users from unwanted ad injectors. Ad injectors are programs that plug into the Google Chrome browser and…
IBM exposes new sophisticated ‘The Dyre Wolf’ malware based fraud scheme
IBM has exposed a sophisticated fraud scheme which used a combination of new malware and old-fashioned social engineering to rob companies of more than $1 million. IBM security researchers have named the…
Symantec: Energy companies in Middle East receiving end of malware attack
Middle East-based Energy sector companies are among the most recent targets of new data exfiltration software dubbed Trojan.Laziok, which is aimed at infecting systems to steal companies’ sensitive information, Symantec researchers have…
Google won’t recognize CNNIC issued internet security certificates
Tech giant Google has announced that its web browser Chrome and other products will no longer recognize security certificates issued by the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). Announcement by the search…
Github suffers ‘largest denial-of-service attack’ ever
Popular coding site Github recently suffered from a massive distributed-denial-of-service attack which the company claims is the largest denial-of-service attack in its history. Beginning Thursday, GitHub was hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)…
Slack admits facing security breach in February
Popular work communications app Slack on Friday admitted to having faced a four day long security breach attack in February. “We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to…
HCSEC UK clears Huawei of all security threat allegations
China-based telecom giant Huawei has been cleared of all allegations of it being a threat to Britain’s national security. Huawei’s products have been widely used in the UK for over a decade…
Malware hijacks router DNS to inject ads, pornographic content into websites
Use of malware to hijack router DNS and then subsequently inject ads and pornographic content onto all websites a user is surfing isn’t a new kind of hack, but hijacking routers using…
Twitch advises users to reset login passwords in wake of a possible data breach
Amazon’s game streaming service Twitch has warned its users of a possible security breach which may have compromised account information including username and password, IP address, login information, limited credit card information…
Research: Remain sceptical about your email service’s password strength metre
A new research has warned that users of online services provided by Amazon, eBay, Gmail, Microsoft and others should be sceptical about password strength metres as they are not all created equally….
China behind man-in-the-middle attacks on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla users
An anti-censorship group has said that China’s cyberspace administration is behind attacks on major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft and Mozilla urging internet companies to ramp up their security infrastructure. GreatFire.Org cited…