Successfully navigating the internet is essential for anyone who lives in the modern world. Whether you use the top 10 most secure internet browsers for personal or professional reasons, you want a fast, safe and reliable browsing experience. Nonetheless, you don’t want to spend a fortune on the tools you …
Read More »User authentication methods overview
Authentication may only be part of cybersecurity, but it’s the most important. Different Authentication Methods are necessary for checking a user’s claimed information to make sure they are who they say they are. Authentication is not to be confused with the preceding stage, authorization; instead, it is the only way …
Read More »Anonymous has taken down the FSB website
The hacker group Anonymous announced on Saturday that it had hacked the website of the FSB, Russia’s feared secret service. We cannot access the site on Saturday evening at the time of publication of this article. The FSB is the de facto successor of the KGB, the secret political police …
Read More »HermeticWiper Malware Alert
A new malware called HermeticWiper (aka KillDisk.NCV) is actively used in the context of the escalation of the military conflict in Ukraine for cyberattacks targeting government and private organizations, affecting decision-makers, technical personnel, and ordinary users. Symantec and ESET research first tweeted about the new strain, dubbed HermeticWiper, on February …
Read More »McAfee bought for $14 billion
The U.S. cybersecurity company McAfee, best known for its antivirus product of the same name, announced on Monday that it would be awarded $14 billion by a consortium of investment funds. The group of investors, led by Advent International Corporation and Permira Advisers LLC, also consists of Crosspoint Capital Partners, …
Read More »Netherlands’s security is at risk due to cyber attacks
In the Netherlands, the alarm about cyber attacks and ransomware propagation – a virus that once downloaded, encrypts files on the system – turns into a crisis “that endangers the security of the country,” Writes Il Fatto Quotidiano. The alarm was launched by three large Dutch cybersecurity companies (Eye, Hunt …
Read More »Pegasus Spy App: Militants, journalists and opponents from around the world spied on via mobile phone
The Pegasus app can trigger the phone’s microphone, trigger the phone’s camera, record any movements that appear on the screen, access the device’s GPS, the location of the person being watched. And all this is done without the owner knowing. Human rights activists, journalists, and opponents worldwide have been spied …
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