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Short Script Can Make Your Apple Crash and Burn. A couple of months ago, this author needed to fix an issue through an online system with only an iPhone at hand; but the page wasn’t rendering correctly on Safari, so this author downloaded Edge, Chrome and Firefox. But surprisingly, the page still rendered the same…

Bristol Airport Targeted By Ransomware Attack. Over the weekend, a ransomware attack brought down Bristol Airport’s display screens, leading to confusion amongst its customers who could no longer see the live updates on flight data. The blackout across information screens lasted for two days, as security experts fought to bring the data back to the…

There are headphones you re-gift, and then there are your go-to headphones — the great-sounding, reliable workhorses that go with you on the bus, to the gym or anywhere you need some serious sonic immersion. With next-gen tech packed into an affordable, wearable package, Treblab’s Z2 Wireless Noise-Cancelling Headphones are squarely in the latter category.…

Researchers at a Finnish cyber-security company, F-Secure, have announced that they discovered a new cold boot hardware technique can unlock disk encryption keys and have access to user data within 2 minutes. This can happen in nearly all computers even those with full disk encryption – Mac or Windows, when someone steals or “borrows” your…

Apple has removed a couple of Trend Micro anti-malware apps from its Mac App Store, after they were caught collecting and siphoning off user data and browsing history without their consent. This news comes a few days after Apple removed another top security app – the Adware Doctor ( not from Trend Micro) for similar…

Apple has removed a top anti-malware app from its App Store because it violated its privacy rules. Apple removed the very popular security app called Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store on Thursday (23Aug2018) because it was secretly gathering users’ browsing history and other sensitive information without their permission and then sending it to…

The British Airways announced on Thursday (6Sep2018) that it was a victim of a very sophisticated and malicious criminal attack where the bank details of customers making bookings between 2158 GMT on August 21st and 2045 GMT on September 5th were stolen in the data breach. The British airline says the personal and financial details…

The official Chrome extension for the cloud storage and file sharing service – MEGA.nz, has been compromised with malicious codes that steal user data for websites as well as private keys for cryptocurrency accounts. The malicious variant was detected by security researchers in the source code of the MEGA.nz Chrome extension version 3.39.4, released early…

If you or your company own a Miktotik Router, it could be spying on you or making someone rich at your bandwidth’s expense. Researchers from Qihoo 360 Netlab discovered that hackers are exploiting a vulnerability of these routers to send data packets to IP addresses of their choosing, effectively eavesdropping on you or your company’s…

Members of the hack collective, Anonymous, have claimed responsibility for bringing down Bank of Spain’s official website in a protest against Madrid’s efforts to block Catalonia’s separatist process. The Banco de España website was hit on Sunday (26Aug2018) by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack and has become inaccessible for more than a week.…