Posts From Seid Yassin
The use of ransomware has been on the rise in recent times. Earlier this year, a hospital in Hollywood paid $17,000 in Bitcoin to hackers who’d encrypted its files so they’d unlock them; a Canadian university paid $20,000 to attackers
Several popular brands of wireless keyboards have been betraying their owners, broadcasting their keystrokes for savvy hackers to intercept from hundreds of feet away. According to research published Tuesday by Bastille, a cybersecurity company, eight wireless keyboards manufactured by major
Key escrow — the process of keeping a set of keys for yourself “just in case” — has always been the U.S. government’s modus operandi when it comes to security. From the disastrous Clipper chip to today, the government has
The official forum for popular mobile strategy game Clash of Kings has reportedly been breached and the hacker has stolen about 1.6 million user accounts. According to data on breach notification site LeakedSource, the breach, which was allegedly carried out
The last critical Patch Update released by Oracle this week is in the headlines for the number of patches it includes. It includes the fixes for 276 vulnerabilities, 19 of them that have been rated critical could expose the products
Facebook is planning to use end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app and has begun rolling out the feature. Facebook has called the new feature ‘Secret Conversations’ and will allow Messenger users to exchange messages that no one will be able
Power stations in Germany, Italy and Israeli smart building could be accessed by criminal hackers Operators of critical infrastructure in Europe have left networks open to attack by hackers, according to investigations carried out by law enforcement officials. According to
Finally, Someone has come forward to buy Yahoo! Guess Who? The telecommunication giant Verizon. Yes, Verizon Communications Inc. is reportedly closing in on a deal to acquire Yahoo’s core business for about $5 Billion, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Hackers compromising checkout process on retail sites, redirecting shoppers to phishing page
Here’s a two-for-one deal that no retail customer wants: Researchers at Sucuri has uncovered a sampling of novel e-commerce attacks that combine the classic duplicity of phishing schemes with the insidiousness of malicious webpage redirects. According to a Sucuri blog
The federal authorities have finally arrested the alleged mastermind behind the world’s largest and most notorious BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT), the US Justice Department announced on Wednesday. After The Pirate Bay had suffered copyright infringement hardship, KickassTorrents (KAT) became
We just cannot imagine our lives without smartphones, even for a short while, and NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden had not owned a smartphone since 2013 when he began leaking NSA documents that exposed the government’s global surveillance program. Snowden fears
Beware: DDOS attacks a greater threat than ever
DDoS attacks are on the increase with an average of 124,000 attacks per week over the last 18 months reported by one security solutions provider who warns that there is a continuing escalation in both the size and frequency of
