Fair elections are the lifelines of democracy, but in recent years election hacking has become a hot topic worldwide.Whether it's American voting machines during the 2016 presidential election or India's EVMs during 2014 general elections, the integrity, transparency, and security of electronic voting machines remained questionable, leaving a wound in the minds of many that is … [Read more...] about Microsoft to Reward Hackers for Finding Bugs in Open Source Election Software
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Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login
After enabling 'Site Isolation' security feature in Chrome for desktops last year, Google has now finally introduced 'the extra line of defence' for Android smartphone users surfing the Internet over the Chrome web browser.In brief, Site Isolation is a security feature that adds an additional boundary between websites by ensuring that pages from different sites end up in … [Read more...] about Chrome for Android Enables Site Isolation Security Feature for All Sites with Login
Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They’re Restricted
Attention Linux Users!A new vulnerability has been discovered in Sudo—one of the most important, powerful, and commonly used utilities that comes as a core command installed on almost every UNIX and Linux-based operating system.The vulnerability in question is a sudo security policy bypass issue that could allow a malicious user or a program to execute arbitrary commands as … [Read more...] about Sudo Flaw Lets Linux Users Run Commands As Root Even When They’re Restricted
Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested
The United States Department of Justice said today that they had arrested hundreds of criminals in a global crackdown after taking down the largest known child porn site on the dark web and tracing payments made in bitcoins.With an international coalition of law enforcement agencies, federal officials have arrested the administrator of the child sexual abuse site, 23-year-old … [Read more...] about Feds Shut Down Largest Dark Web Child Abuse Site; South Korean Admin Arrested
Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people.Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion … [Read more...] about Phorpiex Botnet Sending Out Millions of Sextortion Emails Using Hacked Computers
Facebook Now Pays Hackers for Reporting Security Bugs in 3rd-Party Apps
Following a series of security mishaps and data abuse through its social media platform, Facebook today expanding its bug bounty program in a very unique way to beef up the security of third-party apps and websites that integrate with its platform.Last year, Facebook launched "Data Abuse Bounty" program to reward anyone who reports valid events of 3rd-party apps collecting … [Read more...] about Facebook Now Pays Hackers for Reporting Security Bugs in 3rd-Party Apps
Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks
In an effort to mitigate a large class of potential cross-site scripting issues in Firefox, Mozilla has blocked execution of all inline scripts and potentially dangerous eval-like functions for built-in "about: pages" that are the gateway to sensitive preferences, settings, and statics of the browser.Firefox browser has 45 such internal locally-hosted about pages, some of which … [Read more...] about Firefox Blocks Inline and Eval JavaScript on Internal Pages to Prevent Injection Attacks
Apple Under Fire Over Sending Some Users Browsing Data to China’s Tencent
Do you know Apple is sending iOS web browsing data of some of its users to Chinese Internet company Tencent?I am sure many of you are not aware of this, neither was I, and believe me, none of us could expect this from a tech company that promotes itself as a champion of consumer privacy.Late last week, it was widely revealed that starting from at least iOS 12.2, Apple silently … [Read more...] about Apple Under Fire Over Sending Some Users Browsing Data to China’s Tencent
SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks
Until now, I'm sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS.If you are unaware, the name "SimJacker" has been given to a class of vulnerabilities that resides due to a lack of … [Read more...] about SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks
UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
A 39-year-old login password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers.In 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen spotted an interesting "/etc/passwd" file in a publicly available source tree of … [Read more...] about UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson’s BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked
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