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Hello Ladies, let's talk about periods, privacy, and Facebook. Are you using an app on your smartphone to keep tracks on your periods? Well, it's worrying, because it might be sharing your extremely sensitive information like menstrual cycle and sexual activities with Facebook. A new investigative report from UK-based advocacy group Privacy International revealed how some most popular

Telemetry for the first half of the year shows that Apple's ecosystem is firmly in cybercriminals' sights.

An exposed database containing 17 million email addresses exposed a massive fraud scheme impacting vendors like Groupon and Ticketmaster.

It's been a summer of ransomware hold-ups, supply chain attacks and fileless attacks flying under the radar of old-school security. With malware running amok while we were lying on the beach, here's a recap of the most burning strains and trends seen in the wild during the months of July and August 2019. Malware Evolution Trends The heat must have had an effect as this summer saw malware

** V létě vadil FaceApp, protože je z Ruska ** Ale co ty každodenní aplikace, které máte na telefonu? ** Experti je mohou analyzovat v apklab.io od Avastu

An ElasticSearch DB belonging to Dealer Leads exposed a raft of information collected by "research" websites aimed at prospective car buyers.

A new attack on Intel server-grade CPUs could allow the leakage of SSH passwords - but luckily it's not easy to exploit.

Unlike previous side-channel vulnerabilities disclosed in Intel CPUs, researchers have discovered a new flaw that can be exploited remotely over the network without requiring an attacker to have physical access or any malware installed on a targeted computer. Dubbed NetCAT, short for Network Cache ATtack, the new network-based side-channel vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to sniff

Introduction It’s not an exaggeration to say that tunneling protocols make the difference between hassle-free, secure B2B commerce and absolute chaos. These essential tools create secure “tunnels” that contain encrypted data as it passes across Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). In theory, they wrap up confidential information, keeping it safe from prying eyes. But that’s not […]

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Introduction  Many things in life come with their downsides, and unfortunately, the internet is one of them. Spyware is an unavoidable (without proper measures) thorn for those traversing the web and can ruin your cyber life faster than you can receive that shopping order you placed online (from the same site that infected you).  This […]

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Introduction The middle of a career is often perceived to be a sort of “journey is the destination” kind of goal. It is expected to demand an ever-growing skill set and increased responsibility, and it arguably sees some of the most challenging work presented to a professional — not to mention a more solid sense […]

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The Cynet Dashboard provides 24/7 visibility into an organization's security, with real-time alerts and the ability to react as things happen.

Introduction Malware takes advantage of a disassembler’s basic assumptions. It exploits predictable choices made by debuggers and hides when it suspects it is running on a virtual machine.  This article offers an overview of malware defensive tricks and techniques used when disassembly and debugging tools are searching for malware, especially within a virtual machine.  Anti-disassembly […]

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Proofpoint's senior director of the threat research team discusses the strange levels that attackers are going to in order to persuade victims to click on phishing messages.

Immediately after Mozilla announced its plan to soon enable 'DNS over HTTPS' (DoH) by default for Firefox users in the United States, Google today says it is planning an experiment with the privacy-focused technology in its upcoming Chrome 78. Under development since 2017, 'DNS over HTTPS' performs DNS lookups—finding the server IP address of a certain domain name—over an encrypted HTTPS

A coordinated effort between multiple agencies arrested suspects in Nigeria, the U.S. and eight other countries as well as seized nearly $3.7 million.

Wikipedia has suffered what appears to be the most disruptive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in recent memory.

The long-awaited decision found that automated scraping of publicly accessible data likely doesn't violate the CFAA.

A security researcher uncovered a flaw in Telegram's 'unsend message' feature.

The OS updates may not reflect your Facebook app setting, but Facebook says it will respect whatever users' most restrictive settings are.