Verizon Wireless will pay a $1.35 million fine after the company inserted undeletable ‘supercookies’ into its users’ browsing sessions without consent.
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Upon the request of US authorities, Marcel Lazar Lehel, well known as Guccifer, has finally been approved to extradite to the United States to face Computer Intrusion and Identity Theft Charges for 18 months.
Guccifer is an infamous Romanian hacker who was arrested in Romania for hacking into the emails and social networking accounts of numerous high profile the US and Romanian Politicians.
Parisa Tabriz may not be a household name, but it’s only a matter of time. We take a look at Google’s Security Princess, who is changing the face of tech.
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A Romanian card skimmer arrested for being part of an international cybercrime group that used malware to plunder US$217,000 from ATMs has escaped from a Bucharest prison on Sunday morning (6th March).
Renato Marius Tulli, 34, was being held at Police Precinct 19 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, after being arrested together with 7 other suspects as part of a joint Europol, Eurojust,
A crowd of IT professionals, cyber security experts, thought leaders and business decision makers along with the best minds in the hacking community will come together at annual Nullcon security conference 2016 under the same roof to join their efforts in addressing the most critical issues of the Internet Cyberspace.
NullCon, appropriately dubbed “The Next Security Thing”, creates
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0365-01 – OpenStack Compute launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and controlling access through users and projects. An information-exposure flaw was found in the OpenStack Compute resize and migrate functionality. An authenticated user could write a malicious qcow header to an ephemeral or root disk, referencing a block device as a backing file. With a subsequent resize or migration, file system content on the specified device would be leaked to the user. Only setups using libvirt with raw storage and “use_cow_images = False” were affected.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0364-01 – OpenStack Compute launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances and controlling access through users and projects. An information-exposure flaw was found in the OpenStack Compute resize and migrate functionality. An authenticated user could write a malicious qcow header to an ephemeral or root disk, referencing a block device as a backing file. With a subsequent resize or migration, file system content on the specified device would be leaked to the user. Only setups using libvirt with raw storage and “use_cow_images = False” were affected.
To our dear Avira Mobile Security for iOS users
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Phishing attacks that use the German police and Locky ransomware as a theme make it clear: some cybercriminals aren’t above copying the success of competing cybercriminals to make money.
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Are You an Employee?
It’s quite possible that someone has been reading your messages, emails, listening to your phone calls, and monitoring your activities at work.
No, it’s not a spy agency or any hacker…
…Oops! It’s your Boss.
Recently, European Court had ruled that the Employers can legally monitor as well as read workers’ private messages sent via chat software like WhatsApp or
