The second wave of the pandemic has hit India hard from a cybersecurity perspective. There has been a rise in recent cyber-attacks in India in 2021, with cybercriminals taking advantage of the situation and finding new ways to breach data. If we analyze the news of cyber-attacks in 2021, we will observe increased COVID-19 cyber […]
LinkedIn is a popular social networking platform that is focused on professional networking and the business community. On this platform, users are focused almost entirely on making connections and finding jobs. But things are not always as they seem. Of late, LinkedIn is emerging as one of the most popular social networking sites used by […]
Like most things in life, starting early gives you an advantage, even when it comes to cybersecurity. Today’s kids are no strangers to digital devices. They grow up surrounded by an array of laptops, tablets and mobile phones around them. A recent study suggested that most children owned a mobile phone by the age of […]
Last week, popular business social networking site LinkedIn announced that over 100 million user passwords were compromised. This was followed by a strong advisory to users about changing their passwords. A brief flashback >> A few years ago, in 2012, LinkedIn was hit by a major hack that caused a breach of about 6.5 million […]
Do you use LinkedIn to connect with your professional contacts and to interact or look around for potential employment opportunities? If yes, then you must have surely received LinkedIn connection requests from some people unknown to you at some point in time. Most people assume that LinkedIn is a reliable and secure platform to meet […]
This is security advisory for our readers who have LinkedIn accounts. We have been made aware of a phishing email scam that is targeting LinkedIn users. Scroll down to read more about this. Users of the popular business-oriented social networking service LinkedIn are apparently receiving emails that seem to be from LinkedIn support. In these […]
In this week’s IT security news, LinkedIn users are increasingly under threat of new phishing campaigns. A new form of ransomware has been discovered and several other interesting developments have taken place. Keep reading for some insights into these news stories. LinkedIn users under threat by new phishing campaign This campaign is designed to divert […]
Official PHP Website Falls Prey to Hackers Did you recently visit the official website of the open-source PHP programming language? Let’s hope you did not. News are up that the site has been compromised, and is being used to drop a Trojan horse onto systems used to visit the site. Reportedly, from the 22nd to […]
Microsoft warns Users of Critical Internet Explorer Vulnerability All supported versions of Internet Explorer, as reported by Microsoft, have a new security vulnerability. This security flaw can allow a hacker to use remote code execution (RME) and gain access to the victim’s computer. Incidents of malwares exploiting IE 8 and IE 9 have already been […]
Rootkit developed for Android Ice Cream Sandwich A research team in North Carolina State University has highlighted a security flaw in Android 4.0.4 which can cause a lot of trouble. A rootkit developed for the OS can make applications invisible. So a malicious app can stay hidden on the device with ease. Additionally, it can […]