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Viber's Poor Data Security Practices Threaten Users' Privacy

mercredi 23 avril 2014 à 16:43
Last week we reported a critical vulnerability in the world's most popular messaging application WhatsApp, that could expose users’ GPS location data to hackers and was discovered by the researchers at UNH Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group. Same Group of researchers reported new set of vulnerabilities in another most popular messaging application ‘VIber’. They claimed that

NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG Random Number Generator from Recommendations

mercredi 23 avril 2014 à 13:42
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced to abandon the controversial Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, better known as Dual_EC_DRBG in the wake of allegations that the National Security Agency. Back in December, Edward Snowden leaks revealed that RSA received $10 million bribe from NSA under a secret contract to implement their flawed 

ORACLE Subdomain Page Defaced by Indian Hacker

mercredi 23 avril 2014 à 10:55
A group of Indian Hackers dubbed as I-HOS TEAM has successfully defaced a page on the sub domain of Oracle Corporation, biggest provider of enterprise software, computer hardware and Services. The users visiting the domain are being greeted with a custom webpage with black background and the theme song of an Indian Movie “BOSS”. The defacement page is displaying a logo with title “IHOS -

Desktop Viruses Coming to Your TV and Connected Home Appliances

mercredi 23 avril 2014 à 09:46
Since Smart Devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are the threats to them. After your Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles and Tablets, now its turn of your Smart TVs, as the desktop viruses are coming to infect your Internet enabled Televisions, warns Eugene Kaspersky the co-founder and chief executive of the world’s fourth largest computer antivirus company, Kaspersky Lab. As the

Google Gives Refund to Thousands of Buyers Who Bought Bogus Android AntiVirus App

mardi 22 avril 2014 à 17:05
About a week back we reported about a popular paid Antivirus application on the Google Play Store which was actually a scam, dubbed as ‘Virus Shield’. This First paid fake app managed to become one of the most popular anti-virus app in less than a week, and apparently more than 10,000 Smartphones users purchased it in $3.99 from Google Play Store and hence scammed more than $40,000. The