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Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:48:21 +0000
Imagine a day when you open your inbox and there’s this one mail containing obscene pics of you flashing on the screen. Right below is a message asking you to pay a hefty ransom to prevent your pics from getting shared with all your accounts. The thought itself is enough…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 09:48:21 +0000
Imagine a day when you open your inbox and there’s this one mail containing obscene pics of you flashing on the screen. Right below is a message asking you to pay a hefty ransom to prevent your pics from getting shared with all your accounts. The thought itself is enough…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Prashant Tilekar| Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 09:15:28 +0000
In the last few months, we’ve seen a sudden increase in Spear Phishing attacks. Spear phishing is a variation of a phishing scam wherein hackers send a targeted email to an individual which appears to be from a trusted source. In this type of attack, the attacker uses social engineering tricks and some…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:06:40 +0000
The evolving cyber threat landscape has taken a new leap. The recent past shows a startling rise in the number of incidences of phishing attacks, where visitors have been lured into clicking fraudulent links, under the cover of security marks like padlock icon and ‘HTTPS’. Considering the rising number of…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Ganesh Lakariya| Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 07:02:35 +0000
Red Hat engineers and experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, which is basically a flaw while implementation of RDS (Remote desktop Protocol) over TCP. This flaw has affected Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE and security advisories have been issued for all. This flaw could enable an…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:16:46 +0000
At a time when toddlers can be seen playing around with tabs and teens are living in a virtual world of communication, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that today’s parents are raising a completely new and advanced breed of kids!! Not to be left behind are the schools that…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:16:46 +0000
At a time when toddlers can be seen playing around with tabs and teens are living in a virtual world of communication, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that today’s parents are raising a completely new and advanced breed of kids!! Not to be left behind are the schools that…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 12:35:49 +0000
The incidents of cyber-attacks on smartphones, especially those working on the popular Android operating system, have been on a constant rise. However, a major reason people still continue to go in for android smartphones, is the fact that these are mostly cheap to buy. However, the year 2018 ended with…
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