CyberSecurity

Facebook confesses to storing 600 million users' passwords in plain text for years

The bug was unearthed during a security review in January and was reported by Brian Krebs, a cybersecurity writer. Facebook, in a blog post, explained the situation and said that they have fixed the bug.

Mar 22, 2019

Woman stripped by in-laws, nude photos uploaded online for not paying for husband's impotency surgery

The 26-year-old woman said that her husband, his parents and brother took her nude photos and hacked her social media accounts to post those photos to depict that she was a sex worker.

Mar 12, 2019

Google blocked more than 1 million security-risk Android apps entering Play store

Search engine giant Google intensifies screening process to weed out security vulnerabilities in Android apps before giving permission to enter the Play store.

Mar 4, 2019

Getting abused, vile messages on WhatsApp? You can put an end to it by doing this

WhatsApp users who get threatening messages or vulgar images, texts can complain to DoT and if necessary police action will be taken against the culprit.

Feb 25, 2019

Major bug in IRCTC can allow hackers cancel train tickets booked by passengers: Top facts

A glitch in IRCTC's website allows users the innumerable attempts to log in to the account despite repeated wrong password and OTP. This apparently helps hackers to cancel the booked train tickets and cause inconvenience to the passengers.

Feb 24, 2019

E-commerce policy: Chinese firms on crosshairs; stress on local data storage

Document rules out the regulatory authority of technocrats in favour of a standing group of bureaucrats assisted by various technology wings.

Feb 24, 2019

Update your Windows 7 PC with March SHA 2 update or else risk losing Microsoft security coverage

Microsoft is urging Windows 7 PC owners to sign up for Secure Hash Algorithm(SHA) 2, as the old SHA 1 encryption algorithm is no more safe to the latest security threats.

Feb 22, 2019

Google finally wakes up, wages war against child abuse; blocks vile YouTube channels, comments

Google's YouTube and YouTube Creators takes actions against YouTube channels and commentators proliferating child abuse and disgusting contents.

Feb 22, 2019

Hackers dump sensitive info from 617 million accounts: Dubsmash, 15 other sites exposed

Popular websites such as Dubsmash, MyFitnessPal, 500px and others were hacked and 617 million accounts were exposed in the process.

Feb 13, 2019

Google, Password Checker, Safer Internet Day, Chrome

This Google Chrome extension tool will help secure your username, password: Top facts

Google's new security tool Password Checker now available on Chrome web store.

Feb 6, 2019

Malicious 'beauty camera' apps stealing user photos, showing porn ads removed by Google

To make things worse, users couldn't find these apps to remove them from the phone.

Feb 4, 2019

'Dont try to f*ck us,' warns ransomware disguised as games, apps demanding $700

A new threat awaits for internet users as McAfee uncovered Anatova ransomware deemed to be one of the biggest threats to users.

Jan 25, 2019

Hackers dump 772 million email IDs online for anyone to take: What should you do?

Anyone with an email ID is probably a victim of this massive data breach and here's what you should do.

Jan 17, 2019

This Rs 130-crore cyber heist in India is straight out of Hollywood movie plot

Chinese hackers pull off Rs 130-crore heist by fooling top execs at an Indian subsidiary of an Italian firm and remain at large.

Jan 10, 2019

Over a dozen retro iPhone games detected with Golduck malware links on Apple iOS App Store: Quick facts

It's a wake call for not just Apple, but also Google to scale up their security measures to thwart future malware attacks on smartphones, which has become the ubiquitous object of convenience in the digital era we live right now.

Jan 8, 2019

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