VPN vs. HTTPS | Do You Need A VPN If HTTPS Is Secure?
Both HTTPS and VPNs do similar things in different ways. HTTPS secures your information when you visit websites where VPN encrypts your entire internet traffic. They both have to deal with encryption. In this article, we are going to explain what are the differences &...
Ransomware Group Turns To Facebook Ads
A ransomware group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up, krebsonsecurity reports. On the evening of Monday, Nov. 9, an ad campaign apparently taken out by the Ragnar Locker Team began appearing on Facebook. The ad was designed to...
Apple Announces MacBook Air, 13-Inch MacBook Pro, And Mac Mini Powered By Apple’s Arm-Based M1 Processor
The tech giant Apple introduced a new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by the revolutionary M1, the first in a family of chips designed by Apple specifically for the Mac. By far the most powerful chip Apple has ever made, M1 transforms the Mac experience. With...
What Is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a network management protocol used on Internet Protocol (IP) networks, whereby a DHCP server dynamically assigns an IP address and other network configuration parameters to each device on the network, so they can communicate with other IP networks.
5.8 Million RedDoorz User Records For Sale On Dark Web
Singapore-based hotel management & booking platform Reddoorz suffers a massive data breach. A hacker is selling a RedDoorz database containing 5.8 million user records on a dark web. As part of the sale, the threat actor shared a database sample, including the table structure and...
Former Microsoft Engineer Sentenced To 9 Years In Prison For Stealing $10 Million
A former Microsoft software engineer that was convicted for stealing more than $10 million from the company has been sentenced to nine years in prison, zdnet reports. The judgment, made by a jury, found that the charged individual, Volodymyr Kvashuk, committed 18 felonies. This consisted of five...
Critical Bugs Found On ‘Ultimate Member’ Plugin | UPDATE IMMEDIATELY !
Wordfence’s Threat Intelligence team disclosed several vulnerabilities in Ultimate Member, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. These flaws made it possible for attackers to escalate their privileges to those of an administrator and take over a WordPress site. Ultimate Member is an extensible WordPress...
The EU May Be Looking Into Breaking End-To-End Encrypted Chats
In the EU Council of Ministers, a resolution was made ready within five days, obliging platform operators such as WhatsApp, Signal and Co. to create master keys for monitoring E2E-encrypted chats and messages, the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation) reports. The ORF obtained an internal draft in which...
Hosting Provider Exposed 63 Million Customer Records
A hosting provider exposed over 63 million customer records via an open elastic search database containing verbose logs with plain-text username/password credentials for numerous WordPress, Magento and other sites, securethoughts reports. The database appeared to belong to the Texas-based cloud application hosting provider, Cloud Clusters...
What Is Network Address Translation (NAT)
Network address translation (NAT) is a method of remapping an IP address space into another by modifying network address information in the IP header of packets while they are in transit across a traffic routing device.
Joe Biden Wins The 2020 US Presidential Election
America has chosen Democrat Joe Biden as its 46th president In a victory speech Saturday night in his hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, Biden said he was humbled by the trust America had placed in him and reached out to those Americans who did not vote for him. “I understand...
Twitter Flags President Trump’s Tweets About Ballot-Counting
The micro blogging site Twitter flagged four tweets from President Trump on Saturday morning for making “potentially misleading claims about an election,” a company spokesperson said, continuing its attempts to try to rein in misinformation on its platform. The president tweeted, without evidence, that “tens...
FBI : Cyber-Criminals Target Misconfigured SonarQube Instances to Access Proprietary Source Code of US Government Agencies and Businesses
Since April 2020, unidentified cyber actors have actively targeted vulnerable SonarQube instances to access source code repositories of US government agencies and private businesses, the FBI said in an alert sent out last month and made public this week on its website. The actors exploit known configuration...
AWS Announces Plans To Launch A Second Data Center Region In India
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) announced expansion of its services to include a second infrastructure region in India by mid-2022. The new AWS Asia Region, which will consist of three Availability Zones at launch, will join the existing nine AWS Regions and 26 Availability Zones across Asia in India, Australia, Greater China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore. Globally,...
United States Files A Civil Action To Forfeit Cryptocurrency Valued At Over One Billion U.S. Dollars
The United States filed a civil complaint today to forfeit thousands of Bitcoins, valued at over $1 billion dollars, seized by law enforcement on November 3, 2020, announced United States Attorney David L. Anderson of the Northern District of California and Special Agent in Charge...
You Can Now Send Payments In India With WhatsApp
Facebook is rolling out its WhatsApp payment service for users in India after receiving approval from the country’s regulators. Starting today, people across India will be able to send money through WhatsApp. This secure payments experience makes transferring money just as easy as sending a...
Xiaomi Launches Mi Box 4S Pro | $60 8K Streaming Box In China
Xiaomi has announced the Mi Box 4S Pro, a streaming box capable of 8K video playback. The product was revealed on Weibo and is already available to order in China for 399 yuan, or about $60. “About the Mi Box 4S Pro, we have no global plans...
Facebook To Announce Presidential Election Result In Facebook And Instagram Notifications
The tech giant Facebook plans to put the name of the winner of the US presidential election at the top of Facebook and Instagram once it’s been projected by a majority of media outlets, the company says, Theverge Reports. The company also will label presidential...
WhatsApp Introduce New Disappearing Messages Option
Facebook owned WhatsApp is introducing a new disappearing messages option this month. The feature will allow WhatsApp users to enable disappearing messages on chat conversations between friends, to automatically delete messages after seven days. Anyone can enable the option in individual chats, and group admins...
Google Messages Can Now Schedule Texts For Some Users
The tech giant company Google is rolling out text scheduling in Messages for Android. Twitter user Sai Reddy and others have discovered that Google is rolling out the option to schedule texts in Android’s Messages, saving you the trouble of finding a third-party app. Google provides a...
