Yearly Archives: 2018

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Microsoft extends security patch support for some Windows 7 users

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Microsoft is offering an olive branch to companies taking too long to upgrade from Windows 7, the company revealed last week. It will provide security updates for another three years as it tries to help business customers migrate to Windows […]

By |September 11th, 2018|Cyber News|

Apple removes anti-malware apps that harvested browser data

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Credits: BBC

Apps from a well-known cyber-security firm were taken down from the Mac app store by Apple after they were found to export users’ browser histories.

Several anti-malware apps made by Trend Micro have since been updated by the cyber-security company.

However, Trend […]

By |September 11th, 2018|Cyber News|

Cyberwarfare Goes Wireless

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Recent reports indicate that Russian forces used hacking to intercept a U.S. surveillance drone flying over the Crimea region of Ukraine in March. Allegedly, hackers were able to sever the connection between the drone and its operator using “complex […]

By |September 10th, 2018|Cyber News|

Tata Communications launches cyber security response centre in Dubai

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Tata Communications has launched an advanced cyber security response centre in Dubai. The centre will provide 24/7 cyber security services to help customers stay one step ahead of evolving cyber threats in the Middle East region, Tata Communications said in a filing to […]

By |September 10th, 2018|Cyber News|

MAS proposes legally binding cyber-security measures for all Singapore financial institutions

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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has moved to tighten the rules on cyber security for financial institutions in Singapore by proposing to make legally binding a set of six essential cyber-security measures to protect their IT systems.

The measures are already part […]

By |September 10th, 2018|Cyber News|

Tor launches official anonymous Android browser

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Tor is coming to Android.

The popular anonymization technology will arrive on Google’s mobile operating system with the release of a mobile Tor Browser, Tor Project developers announced on Friday.

Although there has long been a slate of third-party mobile Tor apps, the […]

By |September 8th, 2018|Cyber News|

British Airways was in talks with IBM on outsourcing security just before hack

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Credits: theregister

Exclusive Just weeks before being hacked in late August, British Airways’ parent IAG was planning to outsource its cybersecurity to IBM, admitting it needed a “group-wide strategic and proactive approach” to counter threats.

The Register has learned, from a leaked internal memo, that BA was […]

By |September 8th, 2018|Cyber News|

SIM fraud: Bank, telco to pay co director Rs 4.5 lakh

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Credits: TOI

The principal secretary, state IT department, has directed Dena Bank and to pay nearly 2.3 lakh each to a company after fraudsters transferred 10 lakh from its account using a duplicate SIM card. The funds were transferred to different banks in […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

Hacker uses ProtonMail VPN. Hacker DDoSes ProtonMail. Hacker gets arrested.

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Credit: ZDNet

A major OpSec mistake led to the arrest of a hacker part of a hacking crew that launched DDoS attacks against ProtonMail, Tutanota, and many other sites through the summer.

The hacker is a 19-year-old teenager named George Duke-Cohan, from Hertfordshire, UK. Duke-Cohan […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|

British Airways boss apologises for ‘illicit’ data breach

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Credits: BBC

Alex Cruz told the BBC that hackers carried out a “sophisticated, malicious criminal attack” on its website.

The airline said personal and financial details of customers making bookings had been compromised.

About 380,000 transactions were affected, but the stolen data did not […]

By |September 7th, 2018|Cyber News|