Google Bans 600 Android Apps from Play Store for Serving Disruptive Ads
Google has banned nearly 600 Android apps from the Play Store for bombarding users with disruptive ads and violating its advertising guidelines. The…
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33.4 Billion Records Exposed In Breaches Due To Cloud Misconfigurations?
With the rise in the number of records ‘exposed’ by cloud misconfigurations year after year from 2018 to 2019 by 80%, there is an evident ascent in…
Pakistan Varsity Aims to Develop Cyber Security Products
National Centre for Cyber Security (NCCS) in collaboration with NED University initiated a project to develop Information Security products…
Firefox 73.0.1 fixes crashes, blank web pages and DRM niggles
Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to version 73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems and…
Ransomware attack forces 2-day shutdown of natural gas pipeline
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday said that an infection by an unidentified ransomware strain forced the shutdown of a…
Avoid these 7 Android VPN apps because of their privacy sins
Just because a virtual private network app is shielding your mobile browsing from prying eyes, it doesn’t mean it needs to slurp up your data or…
WordPress plugin hole could have allowed attackers to wipe websites
A WordPress plugin with over 100,000 active installations had a hole which coould have allowed unauthorised attackers to wipe its users’ blogs…
Hackers Attack IOTA’s Trinity Wallet, Company Shuts Down the Network
The hackers attacked the IOTA’s cryptocurrency wallet and stole all the funds. The theft happened by exploiting a vulnerability in the IOTA’s…
Security Experts Say Hackers Can Hack Russian Banks In 5 Days
Experts from the information security company Positive Technologies came to the conclusion that hackers will need only five days on average to hack a…
Iranian Hackers Exploiting VPN Flaws to Backdoor Organizations Worldwide
A new report published by cybersecurity researchers has unveiled evidence of Iranian state-sponsored hackers targeting dozens of companies and…