Crypto-jacking attacks increased by 85 times in Q4 2017, says Symantec Symantec, a cybersecurity company, have found that cryptocurrency coin miners have grown by…
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Android
Facebook has been collecting call and text data from Android users for years
Facebook accused of accumulating text messages and phone call data from Android devices Facebook has always been blamed for invading its users’ privacy by…
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Slack’s new policy lets bosses read your DMs without consent
Slack’s updated policy allows employers to read your private messages Slack, a popular internal office messaging platform, has just updated its privacy policy and tools. The…
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15-Year-Old Finds Vulnerability In Ledger Cryptocurrency Wallet
Ledger’s Nano S Cryptocurrency Wallet Hacked By A 15-Year-Old Teenager Saleem Rashid, a 15-year-old security researcher living in the UK, has discovered a serious vulnerability in…
Malware
Pre-installed RottenSys Malware Infected More Than 5 Million Android Phones
RottenSys botnet has taken over 5 million Android phones Almost 5 million Android phones preinstalled with an Android malware dubbed “RottenSys” were dispatched from…
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Poisoned BitTorrent Client Update Hijacked Over 400,000 PCs Last Week
Over 400,000 PCs Affected By Backdoored Russian BitTorrent Client Nearly over 400,000 computers were infected with cryptocurrency mining malware during a 12-hour period that was…
Microsoft
Design flaw in Microsoft’s Control Flow Guard allows complete bypass
Researchers discover design weakness to bypass Microsoft’s Control Flow Guard in Windows Researchers from Italy’s University of Padua have discovered a fundamental design weakness…
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Researchers believe aliens can destroy humankind with a malware
Aliens will send simple messages through Artificial Intelligence to destroy humanity, researchers claim Just when we thought we have had enough of worries on…
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Torrentz2 blocked on Google Chrome and Firefox over ‘harmful programs’
Chrome and Firefox prevent users from accessing Torrentz2 Over ‘harmful programs’ Torrent users have suffered a setback, as leading browsers Google Chrome and Firefox…
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Hackers exploit Tesla’s cloud systems to mine cryptocurrency
Hackers Hijack Tesla’s AWS servers, Use It To Mine Cryptocurrency Tesla, the electric car manufacturer based in Palo Alto, California, is the latest victim…