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
Google I/O has become a very successful yearly conference aimed to unite Android developers and educate enthusiast about the Android operating system and the plans of Google for its development. The 2019 edition of I/O is highly anticipated, especially with the impending release of Android “Q”, which remains to be unnamed at the time of
The Cisco Talos team, the cybersecurity research arm of Cisco networks has disclosed the new variant of Qbot (AKA Oakbot), an extensible banking trojan which is infecting vulnerable Windows computers in the wild. With its various ways to trap the user in executing the dropper, either through a malicious email, infected website links and drive-by
Oracle WebLogic Servers are not the usual targets when it comes to cyber attacks. Besides, the service is a niche and is facing strong competition from the likes of Amazon with their AWS and Google with its fleet of web services. This time, a new ransomware variant named Sodinokibi has penetrated WebLogic Servers using a
New cybercrime techniques aimed at PCs and mobile devices are emerging every day, and it seems that the use of integrated security software that provides multi-layered defense measures is a shortcut for strengthening countermeasures. Or that is what the antivirus vendors would like everyone believe. Who are involved with cybercrimes: Persons who seek information on
Mainland China has already started its massive facial database of all mainland Chinese citizens and possibly permanent residents of the country as well. Beijing is keen on monitoring the movements of people in the mainland. This is the key to transform China into a cohesive unit, with the opposition to the ruling leaders in Beijing
Ask any system administrator today, and we will hear from them that attempts from unknown outside parties infiltrating their systems are happening on a daily basis. Yes, guys welcome to the 21st-century corporate computing era. We live in a world where cyber warfare is raging globally, between nations, between firms and between groups and individuals.
As an IT professional for decades, we are always highlighting the importance of VPN when it comes to maintaining security and privacy. It is the most cost-effective way to isolate a connection from prying eyes, a VPN creates a secure virtual pipe from the user’s origin device to the VPN vendor’s exit node, wherever it
This is no less than a shocker…Hackers can now use Internet Explorer to steal your data, that too even if you never use it. A security researcher has detected a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer which would allow hackers to steal data. Security researcher John Page has published details and proof-of-concept code for the zero-day
Apache, the top web server platform the Internet as a critical vulnerability which is recently patched by Apache Foundation. Everyone that Apache needs to immediately install the patched version of Apache in order to close the vulnerability which is now known as CVE-2019-0211. As per the report affected versions range from 2.4.17 to 2.4.38, the
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