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Android security: Google prevents almost 2 billion malware installs from non-Play Store sources

Google has tightened its policy to safeguard Play Store and Android users, but scammers are able to push their malicious apps to the app downloading platform

Feb 14, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Science

Space wars: Cyber expert warns how satellites can be hacked and weaponized to carry out attacks

A cybersecurity expert said active satellites can be hacked and used as weapons to carry out attacks on Earth and in space

Feb 13, 2020

By Carlo Inigo Monzon

Space Spacex

Mitsubishi shares plunge 16% as mileage cheating scandal escalates

Technology

Hackers may have breached Japan's defence data after Mitsubishi Electric cyberattack

Mitsubishi Electric initially denied the possibility of a breach when it was first reported on January 20, 2020, but further checks revealed the hacking incident

Feb 12, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

CyberSecurity

Four Chinese military hackers charged Equifax cyberattack

The encroachment was known for being the largest theft of personally identifiable information to be ever carried out by state-sponsored actors

Feb 11, 2020

By IBTimes APAC Desk

CyberSecurity

Windows Emotet malware is now on a mission to demolish all Wi-Fi connected devices: What to do

Researches explained that Emotet malware can be manipulated to download ransomware and other Trojans to launch a more massive attack

Feb 11, 2020

By Anirban Roy

Technology

Cybersecurity: Iran faces massive Internet shutdown due to powerful cyberattack

NetBlocks confirmed in their report that Iran faced an extensive telecommunications network disruption on Saturday morning

Feb 10, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Technology

Android vulnerability: Delete these newly detected cleaner apps from your smartphone

Security researchers found malicious Android cleaner apps that may make any smartphone vulnerable after the installation

Feb 9, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Facebook celebrates Mother's Day with temporary reactions of a flower

Technology

Hackers take control over Facebook's accounts on Twitter and Instagram

A hacking group called OurMine temporarily took over Facebook's accounts on Twitter and Instagram on Friday

Feb 8, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Facebook

New Trojan found stealing credit card money

Technology

Security experts detect half a million card details on darknet; credit goes to Joker

Researchers from Group-IB found a database containing over 460,000 payment card records on one of the most popular darknet cardshops

Feb 7, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Technology

New malware campaigns: Delete these Android apps that can log in to your Google, Facebook accounts

Security researchers found two malware campaigns which included compromised Play apps with 470k installs as well as Anubis

Feb 7, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Facebook

Technology

Researcher detects multiple security flaws in WhatsApp; helps Facebook to patch

A researcher found and helped parent company Facebook to patch multiple critical security flaws in WhatsApp

Feb 5, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Facebook

Technology

Is Siri spying on me? Emmy Award-winning columnist finds suspicious monitoring of her activities on iPad

Jennifer Jolly who is an Emmy Award-winning consumer tech columnist noticed suspicious activities on her iPad

Feb 3, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Technology

Coronavirus may infect and cause malicious activities in your smartphone; but how?

Kaspersky and IBM X-Force security researchers have found a series of the malware campaigns which are using the coronavirus as a hook

Feb 1, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Coronavirus

Technology

January 2020 review: You should not have these malware apps in your android phone

In January, researchers have already detected several malicious activities and released threat reports to ensure the data security of Android users

Jan 31, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

CyberSecurity

[EXCLUSIVE] US 2020 Presidential election under security threat; is America prepared?

Security experts believe that in 2020 the election interference may come in the form of ransomware attacks

Jan 31, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Tech & Trend

Thousands of Instagram credentials exposed; Social Captain takes responsibility, fixes issue

Instagram credentials leaked by a Booting company, Social Captain, which said the issue is fixed now

Jan 31, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Bank of Japan announces negative interest rates

CyberSecurity

BOJ warns of cyber-attack vulnerability ahead of Olympic Games

The financial institution of Japan warned that the country's other banks must guard against cyber-attacks ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Jan 31, 2020

By Reuters

Technology

Cyberattack on UN: Geneva and Vienna targeted by 'well-resourced' security breach

United Nations faced cybersecurity incidents in Geneva and Vienna offices in 2019, but the official statement came in 2020 January

Jan 30, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Technology

Amazon's Ring app shares user's personal details without their consent

A recent report claimed that personal data of the Ring app customers go to four main recipients, Branch, ApplsFlyer, MixPanel and Facebook

Jan 29, 2020

By Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Facebook

CyberSecurity

Avast and AVG Antivirus allegedly gleaned user data and sold it to industry biggies including Microsoft, Google, Netflix, and Amazon

The list of companies that bought such data includes some big names such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Yelp, Pepsi, and Walmart

Jan 28, 2020

By Anirban Roy

Netflix

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