I write about ethical hacking, cybersecurity and digital privacy.
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Reddit suffers major ‘security breach’ and hacker gained access to Reddit’s internal systems, despite SMS Two-Factor Authentication on employee accounts. Reddit discovered on 19 June 2018 that emails, encrypted passwords, private messages, public posts of some of the registered users…
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Ransomware hits shipping lines again
Chinese shipping firm, COSCO came under a ransomware attack that disrupted its system network in the United States (US). The attack took place in 24 July 2018, Tuesday, at the Port of Long Beach where the company’s local email system…
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SingHealth under siege
Singapore faced its worst cyberattack in history with 1.5 million patients’ medical records being breached including top politicians’ health records. The island-state local media released the shocking news on Friday, 20 Jul 2018, however, the data breach could have taken…
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Instagram is down for many around the world
Social networking service Instagram experiencing huge outage and at the moment many users are affected in countries like India, Brazil, USA, UK, some ares of Russia as per outage map on DownDetector. Instagram is down for many around the world…
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Trade war, the pretext for cyber war?
With trade war’s rhetorics dominate the news headlines recently, many people wonder if the world is heading toward a tit-for-tat tariffs war where nobody win. At the advent of the trade war, probably a war has already been fought and…
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How To Become an Ethical Hacker – Beginners Guide
I’m sure you read stories about ethical hacking, but not knowing what that means? Our article will cover few points for people with no experience in cybersecurity or have limited experience. We receive many emails asking on how to become…
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Beware of World Cup hacking
With the World Cup kicking off in Luzhniki Stadium, an estimated 2-3 million soccer fans from all over the world will convene in Russia. Amazingly, various nations were known openly to warn their own soccer fans travelling to football biggest…
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5.9 Million Cards Details, 1.2 Million Records with Personal Details in one the UK’s Biggest Data Breaches.
Dixons Carphone a prominent United Kindgdom-based electronics retailer has experienced huge data breach, with hackers accessing millions of customer payment-cards and 1.2 million personal data records including names, addresses and email addresses. A statement released by the company said “no…
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Cyberwar over the Trump Kim summit
. As the world holds it breath for the Trump-Kim Summit in Singapore on 12 Jun 2018, perhaps majority of the “battles†were already fought among the cyberspace to get ahead of each other. First, North Korea is no stranger…
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Did you rebooted your router, due to VPNFilter malware? Don’t bother as it is a lot worse than we thought
That’s right, the VPNFilter Malware is back and it looks like previous advise to reboot your router doesn’t protect you from the threat. Besides that the malware runs on much more router base models it is also has other capabilities…
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