by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Security, Tech News
One good thing about having a lot of Facebook friends is that you simply act as a honey pot when your friends click on malicious things. A few days ago I got a message on Facebook from a person I very rarely speak to, and I knew that something fishy was going on....
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Security, Tech News
“Ransomware” threat is on the rise, and cyber criminals are making millions of dollars by victimizing as many people as they can—with WannaCry, NotPetya and LeakerLocker being the ransomware threats that made headlines recently. What’s BAD? Hacker...
by ray | Jul 6, 2018 | Security, Tech News
Avery serious security problem has been found in the Intel/AMD/ARM CPUs. Spectre CPU Vulnerability CVE-2017-5753/CVE-2017-5715 breaks the isolation between different applications. It allows an attacker to trick error-free programs, which follow best practices, into...
by ray | Jun 14, 2018 | Security, Tech News
Researchers have demonstrated how sonic and ultrasonic signals (inaudible to human) can be used to cause physical damage to hard drives just by playing ultrasonic sounds through a target computer’s own built-in speaker or by exploiting a speaker near the...
by ray | Jun 12, 2018 | Security, Tech News
ALYSSA FOOTE HOME ROUTERS HAVE become the rats to hackers’ bubonic plague: an easily infected, untreated, and ubiquitous population in which dangerous digital attacks can spread. Now security researchers are warning that one group of sophisticated hackers has...
by ray | Jun 12, 2018 | Security, Cloud Tools, Tech News
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by a process known as “hashing”. The social network...
