Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Twitter is now warning users if their accounts are being targeted by government hacking attempts. Several users have reported receiving notices from Twitter revealing attacks on their accounts, as reported by the Telegraph. According to the report, a number of the…
Twitter Warns Its Users Of ‘Government/State Sponsored’ Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Twitter has sent warnings to a number of users that their accounts may have been hacked by “state-sponsored actors”. It is the first time that the social media company has issued such a warning. Twitter emailed users to say that the…
Android Malware ‘Dendroid’ targeting Indian Users
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The devices are becoming smarter, therefore the chances to abuse them have increased. As the share of Android has become 87% in the global Smartphone market, so the Android is by far an elementary target of the mobile malware developers.The number…
Gameover ZeuS Trojan Targets Users of Monster.com Employment Portal
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Zeus Trojan is one of the most popular families of Banking Trojan, which was also used in a targeted malware campaign against a Salesforce.com customer at the end of the last month and researchers found that the new variant of Zeus…
Billions of Smartphone Users affected by Heartbleed Vulnerability
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Heartbleed has left a worst impression worldwide affecting millions of websites and is also supposed to put millions of Smartphones and tablets users at a great risk.Heartbleed is a critical bug (CVE-2014-0160) in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library, that actually…
Facebook To Warn Users If Government Is Hacking Their Accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Having been able to take steps in the past to assure that Facebook users’ rights haven’t been compromised, now the social network site is taking a step further by notifying users if a government entity is detected to be hacking or…
CREDIT CARD — USERS WARNED OF SCAMS AMID SHIFT TO SECURITY CHIP CARDS
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans If you’re a credit card user, you either have or will be getting new cards with security chips. They are designed to protect you against fraud, but scammers are already tying to exploit them. “It’s the biggest change in the way…
In Hacking Team’s wake, FinFisher spyware rises in popularity with government users
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The notorious FinFisher spyware is rising in popularity with government agencies across the world and 32 countries have been identified as users. FinFisher is a sophisticated spyware suite sold exclusively to government agencies and police forces. The user-friendly software is able…
Microsoft says that forcing Windows 10 on Windows 7/8.1 users was a ‘mistake’
Microsoft says forcing Windows 7/8.1 users to Windows Windows 10 was done by mistake We had reported it earlier that Microsoft was forcing Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to opt-in for Windows 10 operating system. Now Microsoft has issued a statement that this was being done by mistake. Microsoft’s…
Microsoft once more forcing Windows 7 users to upgrade to Windows 10
Microsoft snooping update, KB3035583 returns to Windows 7 users forcing them to upgrade to Windows 10 Like it or not, Microsoft wants you to upgrade your PC to its latest iteration. In fact, Microsoft set up a ambitious goal of bringing Windows 10 on a total of 1 billion devices by…