Yearly Archives: 2020

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Lakhs of Jharkhand school students to attend digital classes through Doordarshan from Monday

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Lakhs of students of government schools in Jharkhand will re-join their classroom activities on digital platform sitting at home through special educational broadcasts on DD (Doordarshan) Jharkhand from Monday.

The daily education bulletin, designed by the Jharkhand Education Project Council (JEPC), […]

By |May 10th, 2020|Cyber News|

Hacker gains access to a small number of Microsoft’s private GitHub repos

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A hacker has gained access to a Microsoft employee’s GitHub account and has downloaded some of the company’s private GitHub repositories.

The intrusion is believed to have taken place in March, and came to light this week when the hacker announced […]

By |May 8th, 2020|Cyber News|

FYI: Your browser can pick up ultrasonic signals you can’t hear, and that sounds like a privacy nightmare to some

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Technical folks looking to improve web privacy haven’t been able to decide whether sound beyond the range of human hearing poses enough of a privacy risk to merit restriction.

People can generally hear audio frequencies ranging from 20 Hz and 20,000 […]

By |May 8th, 2020|Cyber News|

Senior MP tells UK Defence Committee on 5G security: Russia could become China’s cyber-attack dog

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Russia might begin carrying out cyber attacks against Britain’s 5G networks “at the behest of China”, the chairman of a Parliamentary Select Committee has ventured.

The startling prediction came from Tobias Ellwood MP, chairman of the Defence Committee, as he presided […]

By |May 7th, 2020|Cyber News|

Professor researching Covid-19 was killed in an apparent murder-suicide, officials say

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A University of Pittsburgh professor on the verge of making “very significant findings” researching Covid-19, according to the university, was shot and killed in an apparent murder-suicide over the weekend, police said.

The research assistant professor, identified as Bing Liu, was found in […]

By |May 7th, 2020|Cyber News|

Now we know what the P really stands for in PwC: X-rated ads plastered over derelict corner of accountants’ website

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Fedulov, who runs an image search engine, said two times is too many for such a large accountancy firm serving government contracts.

“Since the company provides security services, including for governments, I believe it is time to share the incidents to the […]

By |May 6th, 2020|Cyber News|

India acknowledges, but brushes aside, features-not-bugs in Aarogya Setyu virus contact-tracing app

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The Indian government has acknowledged “potential security issues” in the Aarogya Setyu contact-tracing app which its opposition labels as a ‘surveillance system with no oversight,’ but says the code issues are not that big a deal.

A late night tweet from […]

By |May 6th, 2020|Cyber News|

Surprise surprise! Hostile states are hacking coronavirus vaccine research, warn UK and USA intelligence

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Foreign state hackers are trying to brute-force their way into pharmaceutical and medical research agencies hunting for a COVID-19 vaccine, British and American infosec agencies are warning.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and America’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) […]

By |May 6th, 2020|Cyber News|

GoDaddy Confirms Data Breach: What 19 Million Customers Need To Know

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Credits: Forbes

The world’s largest domain registrar, GoDaddy, with 19 million customers, has disclosed a data breach impacting web hosting account credentials.

With more than 19 million customers, 77 million domains managed, and millions of websites hosted, most everyone has heard of GoDaddy. […]

By |May 5th, 2020|Cyber News|

Xiaomi emits phone browser updates after almighty row over web activity harvested even in incognito mode

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Xiaomi phones at the center of tracking brouhaha
A Forbes report last week outlined how some Xiaomi Android phones track their owners’ web browsing and online activities.

It was claimed the handsets’ bundled Xiaomi browser collects things like browsing history, search queries, and news feed activity, […]

By |May 5th, 2020|Cyber News|