Vulnerabilities

5 Interesting Cyber Crime Stories

Living in this Internet Era, cybercrime has become a reality. Most of us might not have been a victim of this novel and digital world crime, but many have experienced it, ranging from individual to enterprises. These incidents stories reach us after the forensic investigators try to reverse the crime scene and get the artifacts …

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Countering Cybersecurity Attacks

It is a cry of every person, organization and even countries that a long lasting solution for cybersecurity is found.  Every day, reports of growing number of cases concerning breach in cybersecurity are reported and the risk increases daily due to growing number of interconnected devices being added to the internet.  Your information and data …

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The Top 15 Most Used Passwords Will Make You Laugh… or Cry

Every year the guys at SplashData analyze millions of hacked and leaked passwords from websites and online services.  They then publish this most commonly used passwords that they find. It is never a good idea to use such obvious passwords because there is virtually no security.  In fact, it is a common practice for hackers …

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AI Weaponization

Artificial intelligence technologies are now being leveraged to execute intelligent cyberattacks. Hackers are combining open-source AI technologies with malware to create these AI-based attacks.  This is a trend that is creating new types of advanced and sophisticated threats. AI technologies are used to conceal the malware embedded in applications. Using AI, the malicious behavior of …

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Countering Cyber Security Attacks

It is a cry of every person, organization, and even countries that long-lasting solution for cybersecurity is found.  Every day, reports of a growing number of cases concerning breach in cybersecurity are reported, and the risk increases daily due to the increasing number of interconnected devices being added to the internet.  Your information and data …

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Top Malware Attacks that Prove IOT Needs Security

You may think you are safe when you put your login credentials to your social media account, but you need to take care of yourself.  Social media and other anything you access online is not safe anymore, do not trust any online platform with your information or data. Always have your doubts every time you …

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Cybersecurity Threats in the Banking Sector

Over the last half a decade, Cyber-attacks has been considered as one of the biggest threat to the financial institution. Cyber criminal’s skill and techniques have evolved with technology; they have become more organized forming groups like Lazurus making it difficult for financial services to have the upper hand in the war on cybercrime.   The …

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Cybersecurity Threats on Forex Trading and Cryptocurrencies

Cyber Crime in Forex Trading While cyber-attacks have become a regular occurrence in the world today, catastrophic results have been recorded. The question is, is forex trading impenetrable to hackers? Or is forex trading immune from attackers, how secure is it? In a nutshell, forex trading just as any other online platform is prone to …

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Cyber Incident Analysis

With the advancement in technology, cybersecurity incidents have increased both in oftenness and sophistication. Practically every second somewhere in the world someone is trying to infiltrate or rather hack a particular computer system. A cybersecurity incident can be defined as an act of malice whose intention is to compromise or disrupt either the physical or …

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Your home wireless network is likely not very secure

Most of us don’t think about hackers spying on our home internet activity and searching through our home computer files. In fact, most of us believe that our home lives are not interesting enough for hackers to waste their time trying to crack into our systems. But what if it does not take much time …

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Kevin Mitnick – The Most Infamous Hacker of All Time

The art of hacking has been in development for many years. The heyday of hacking was before the Internet even existed. There are amazing and exciting stories about hackers like Kevin Mitnick who hacked for notoriety, money, street cred, and just for personal accomplishment. Before the Internet, there were still many targets for hackers. Hackers …

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What to do if your WordPress Site Gets Hacked

Some estimates state that 40% of websites use the Content Management System (CMS) known as WordPress. WordPress is one of the easiest ways to get a professional website up and running quickly. But if you don’t keep your site updated, then there is a good chance that you will wake up one day to find …

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The Marriott Hack – This is What will Happen Next.

Personal information from about 500,000,000 people who made reservations at a Starwood hotel was stolen by hackers.  These hotels include Sheraton, Aloft, W Hotels, and Westin Hotels.  Marriott acquired the Starwood Group back in 2016, but the compromise started way back in 2014 before the acquisition took place. Hackers had full access for four years …

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Passwords Suck and Will Go Away – Here’s How

Why Passwords Suck Usernames and Passwords are not secure by nature.  Usernames and Passwords are controls that rely on “Something you know.”  Knowledge is easily transferable, and therefore, passwords are not secure. No amount of security training will eliminate or overcome human nature.  It is human nature to make passwords we can easily remember.  Passwords …

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Are Dark Web Scans Effective?

The Dark Web is Anonymous The dark web is a scary place.  It is a network of websites teeming with illegal activity.  It is a secret place where visitors protect their identity by using techniques to keep identifying information (Like their IP address) hidden. There are several methods that people use to keep themselves anonymous …

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Hardware Encryption

Why Hardware Encryption is Not Secure

Hardware Encryption is not Secure A Little History… In the past, it was assumed that hardware encryption is far more secure than software encryption.  Many people, including security experts, still believe this to be true.  And in the past, it was true. But recent history has proven that hardware encryption is highly vulnerable.  The widely …

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Murder By Hacking

Murder by Hacking

When Hackers Kill Hackers have already – perhaps many times- have contributed to death by hacking into secure systems and releasing information.  This information has lead to the loss of life in many different ways, including suicide and murder. But hacking has now evolved to the point that cybercriminals can use computers to negatively affect …

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What is Zerodium?

Zerodium is a reputable place where you can sell zero-day exploits. Hackers and security researchers know that Zerodium is a way to cash in on vulnerabilities that they discover in operation systems, software and hardware, and devices. There are several ways that you can make money from discovering vulnerabilities.  You can disclose the vulnerability to …

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What is Persian Stalker?

Persian Stalker is targeting Iranian social media accounts. The “group” has been around since 2017, and they have been observed targeting social media accounts.  Specifically, this group focuses on gaining access and control of Instagram and Telegram accounts. Telegram is a popular service with about 40 million users.  Telegram is a communication app that has …

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More data shows that Americans are lackadaisical about security.

A new research report Published by cybersecurity specialists, BestVPN.com, shows the state of online privacy in the United States. BestVPN surveyed 1,000 U.S. consumers to comprehend the state of online privacy in 2018. The report reveals a significant knowledge gap and suggests that, despite their fears, US citizens are not protecting themselves against the ever-growing …

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The freeRTOS Vulnerability Disaster

FreeRTOS, the open-source operating system that powers most of the small microprocessors and microcontrollers in many IoT hardware products has newly identified vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are in the TCP/IP stack and affect the FreeRTOS. The versions affected The versions affected are FreeRTOS up to V10.0.1 (with FreeRTOS+TCP), AWS FreeRTOS up to V1.3.1, OpenRTOS and SafeRTOS …

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