Category: IT NEWS & UPDATES

Ethernet of WiFi? Choosing between them is really confusing. Ethernet is the traditional technology for connecting devices in a wired local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN), enabling them to communicate with each other via a protocol -- a set of rules or...

HBO Max is an upcoming American subscription video on demand streaming service from  combining HBO with Warner Bros. movies and Turner TV shows, will launch on May 27th, the company announced today. HBO Max will include 10,000 hours of premium content at launch. The library includes the entire HBO...

Cyber-criminals are selling over 267 million Facebook profiles for £500 ($623) on dark web sites and hacker forums. While none of these records include passwords, they do contain information that could allow attackers to perform spear phishing or SMS attacks to steal credentials. The database...

Sensing that the world needs all the entertainment it can get during this time of social distancing and self isolation, Facebook has fast-tracked the release of its Facebook Gaming mobile app, as reported by the New York Times. Facebook’s gaming app will largely curate and focus...

It will not surprise anyone that internet usage has surged dramatically in the past few weeks, thanks to people isolating and working from home. Streaming platforms have had to slow down their speeds to cope with the influx of demand, and some ISPs have pledged to lift data caps,...

Portuguese Multinational Energy Giant ‘Energias de Portugal‘ (EDP) are under ransomware attack and cyber-criminals are demanding 1580 BTC ransom ($10.9M or €9.9M). EDP Group is one of the largest European operators in the energy sector (gas and electricity) and the world’s 4th largest producer of wind energy. The...

For the last few weeks, Zoom has been the epicenter of security issues with experts revealing faults in the app every other day. According to BleepingComputer, cybersecurity intelligence firm Cyble spotted the accounts for sale starting April 1. They are currently for sale on the dark web and...

According to the blog post on Malwarebytes Labs, the web skimming increased by 26 percent in March over the previous month. While this might not seem like a dramatic jump, digital credit card skimming was already on the rise prior to COVID-19, and this trend...

Tech giant company Apple and Google are jointly building software into iPhone and Android devices to help track the spread of coronavirus by telling users if they contacted an infected person and are potentially sick themselves. The new project is slated for release in May. The...

INTERPOL has issued a warning to organizations at the forefront of the global response to the COVID-19 outbreak that have also become targets of ransomware attacks, which are designed to lock them out of their critical systems in an attempt to extort payments. INTERPOL’s Cybercrime...

YouTube will reduce the amount of content spreading conspiracy theories about links between 5G technology and coronavirus that it recommends to users, it has said, as four more attacks were recorded on phone masts within 24 hours, The Guardian reported. According to The Guardian, YouTube may still allow...

The SSL handshake is nothing but a conversation between two parties (client and server) wanting to accomplish the same purpose – securing the communication with the help of symmetric encryption.

Facebook has launched a Messenger apps for MacOS and Windows so you can video chat on your computer and stay connected with friends and family all over the world. The app, which is now available on the Microsoft Store and Mac App Store, lets you message friends and...

In 2018, Cloudflare announced 1.1.1.1, a secure, fast, privacy-first DNS resolver free for anyone to use. Today, Cloudflare process more than 200 billion DNS requests per day making them the second largest public DNS resolver in the world behind only Google. Cloudflare announced on a...

Facebook launched the Coronavirus Community Hub on Messenger, which aims to provide people with tips and resources regarding the new coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, while preventing the propagation of misinformation. The blog post read “Our communities give us the strength we need to get through...

There are various ways in which a virus can infect your system, one way that is used by Cyber Criminals to penetrate business networks is via USB Devices, a popular method that is often forgotten.

Huawei has launched a new personal assistant for its phones. A rival to the Google Assistant, Huawei’s AI helper is named Celia. Huawei will roll out the new digital assistant to its phones through an OTA update. However, the company hasn’t shared a specific timeline...

YouTube will reduce the default video quality to standard definition (480p) around the world to ease internet traffic during the coronavirus outbreak. The decision comes just one week after YouTube announced it was reducing streaming quality for users in Europe to help lessen broadband strain...

Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in full swing. The two sites promoting the fake antivirus software can be found at antivirus-covid19[.]site and corona-antivirus[.]com as discovered by the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team and researchers at MalwareHunterTeam, respectively. That’s right, scammers are trying to...

NetWalker ransomware is believed to be a variant of the Mailto Ransomware family. The .mailto file extension along with an email address is attached as the extension to all of your files, making them inaccessible. All encrypted files will receive the new extension as a...