Security researchers from Gemini Advisory, a cyber threat intelligence firm, disclosed a huge sale campaign for credit/debit cards in hacker forums belonging to South Korean cardholders. The first batch of stolen card credentials was numbered to 890,000, while the second batch reached 230,000 units, all in all, the number of cards “for sale” in the

Maybe some of you have forgotten when then Chief Software Architect of Microsoft, Bill Gates uttered one of the silliest claims to promote Microsoft in 2004. In the prestigious 2004 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: “Two years from now, spam will be solved.” He made such brave claim in relation to the

Microsoft has found a new foe in its Windows-Office empire, as the Netherland’s Ministry of Justice and Security issued a stern warning Dutch public sector users of Office mobile, Office online and the enterprise version of Windows 10 about privacy risks. The ministry based its findings to the Data Protection Impact Assessment report made by

We cannot make someone reads our article to become a CCNA-level network administrator anytime soon. Networking is hard, with various protocols, wiring standards and other critical parts that need to work hand-in-hand to even enable a transfer of PING packets. Take a look at the basics of the seven layers of the OSI model, to

“Security patch” is a term that refers to programs and data that fix known vulnerability in the software. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses, software bugs which can be “weaponized” in order to compromise the security and privacy of users. How many times we have witnessed in the mobile space, more particularly on Android having many unpatched defects,

Internet-of-Things is one of our most favorite, if not the most favorite topic to discuss here. We wrote countless articles since 2017, about the inherent increase of acceptance of IoT devices, the security risks they add to the homes and offices, and the real cost of its operations overall. However, we have not tackled the

Brazillian bank named Banco Pan is at the center of the biggest controversy of its history when it was involved with the release of 250GB worth of their customers’ data to the public. The unprotected server in question is not yet identified at the time of this writing, but it hosts data not only for

CERT-Bund has issued a critical advisory regarding an alleged persistent vulnerability in all versions of VLC Player from version 3.0.7.1 and older. VLC Player is a very popular cross platform open source media player with versions available in Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android and Unix. The bug has something to do with buffer over-read, connected

Fake invoices are easier to detect if these piggyback emails that came from people you don’t know. We are well aware of the messages from complete strangers may range from complete irrelevant to dangerous as it harbors malware, placing the victim into cybersecurity trouble. Even phishers and cybercriminals know that basic principle of safe computing,

It is becoming fairly common that small city or municipalities are the most profitable victims of cyber threats and cyber attacks using their ransomware campaigns. Here, we have featured at least two cities that were victims of ransomware infection, Riviera City (Florida) and Baltimore (Maryland). The city councils of both cities decided to pay the