‏Athena Martinez is a security expert/analyst geek with almost 5 years of experience, writes on various topics pertaining to internet security with latest happening in the IT world thoroughly.

14 Clever Ways To Secure User Login Credentials

The Tech industry has slowly but surely trying to provide the masses a new way to authenticate themselves to web services. New technology as the Windows Hello built-in to all Windows 10 computers with a webcam and SQRL, a QR code-based login system are currently being polished in order to provide users a convenient alternative

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6 Members Sim Hijacking Team “The Community” Indicted by DOJ

The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted six people allegedly linked with the “The Community” cybercrime group for an alleged SIM card hijacking case which made victims lose an aggregate $2.4 million. The DOJ has posted the announcement in its official Press Release, the six individuals named below are facing multiple cases of aggravated identity

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How Useful Artificial Intelligence for Operations Will Be?

A huge portion of the typical labor force today will be replaced by artificial intelligence. It is not a question of if, but of when, by that time people needs to see new possibilities to focus on such as creative work, the arts and other aspect of human interest that AI will never able to

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Wyzant Online Tutoring Service, A Major Victim Of Data Breach

Wyzant, a mainstream online tutoring service has suffered a major system breach. More damage falls on their customers that use their personal Facebook login for their Wyzant service, as their Facebook information could have been part of the stolen information as well. Wyzant admins detected an abnormal activity in their database last May 2, 2019.

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5 Ways In Handling Security Trends of First Quarter 2019

2019’s First Quarter already ended, and as we can see cybersecurity issues are not bound to slow down any time soon. We have provided many embarrassing and sad stories of companies and public sector entities falling for cyber attacks, phishing, malware infection and other issues. We are here to help make our readers aware of

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The Fundamentals of Drones And Its Security

Drone is a common name for UAV: ​​Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, there is also a type of drone on each of the land, sea, and air, which are called UAV, UGV, and UMV, respectively. The current drone for civilian and military use can fly autonomously by GPS and inertial navigation system. What is confusing is that

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Norsk Hydro’s Damage Control Efforts After Ransomware Attack

Norsk Hydro, a metal, and renewable energy conglomerate company in Oslo Norway is trying to recover from the cost of the LockerGoga ransomware attack it absorbed last March 2019. As the company computes for its loses, LockerGoga continues to ask for ransom payment for the decryption key needed to restore the locked files to its

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5 Things To Know When Choosing For SaaS

Let us be honest, maintaining software installation library onsite is a very expensive undertaking. There is a cost for acquiring, maintaining, changing and upgrading hardware which hosts the software business need to use for day-to-day operations. Of course, as the lifecycle of software comes to an end, that incurs the cost of upgrading to the

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Troublesome 7000 BTC Heist In Binance, Unrecoverable

Cryptocurrency Exchange Binance is suffering a huge Bitcoin heist as they lost 7000 BTC, worth around $40 million at the time of this writing. There is speculation that a painful transaction retraction “may” take place in order to desperately recover the huge losses. A retraction of the transaction (AKA Bitcoin Chain Reorg) has not happened

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Chinese Buckeye Group Behind Two Zero-Day Attacks?

Buckeye group, the alleged hacking team composed of Chinese nationals were implicated by Symantec as the one behind the massive exploitation of a zero-day Windows critical security vulnerability which was only patched by Redmond last March 2019. In fact, Symantec claims that this alleged Chinese hacking team got a hold of the same Equation Group

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