Android devices have been the most common and favorite target of malware such as Trojan because of the ecosystem’s lack of a centralized mechanism to roll out security updates and fixes.
In India, cyber espionage targets diplomats and military officials
A slew of cyber espionage attacks has targeted high-profile individuals in India, including diplomats and military officials with the help of some not-so-new methods of attack: phishing and watering hole sites.
Large Banks in the US have weak password policies
In a rather ironic turn of events, over 350 million individuals who have accounts with the large banking companies in the United States are using passwords that are weaker than the ones they use for their social media accounts.
Fire OS tablet owners slam Amazon for removing encryption from their device
Many owners of the Fire OS tablet took to social media to air their sentiments about Amazon’s removal of encryption from their tablets running the latest Fire OS 5. In effect, Amazon disabled the only strong security protection Fire OS tablet owners have against the ever-increasing threat landscape.
Newly discovered HTTPS vulnerability leaves many connections exposed to attacks
Millions of Internet users are facing the risk of cyber threats as security researchers uncovered a major flaw in the transport layer security that can expose usernames, passwords, banking credentials and credit card to attacks.
Hackers using malicious Word documents to steal money from businesses
Hackers like to manipulate legitimate software tools and applications to carry out their malicious activities, and Microsoft Word becomes the latest program used by the bad actors to spread file-encrypting malware and/or Trojan to steal money from businesses.
