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Top 6 Cybersecurity Books from Packt to Accelerate Your Career

With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber-attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. In organizations worldwide, there is not only a…

3 years ago

Mozilla removes Avast and AVG extensions from Firefox to secure user data

Yesterday Wladimir Palant, the creator of AdBlock Plus, reported that Mozilla removed four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its…

4 years ago

6 Tips to Prevent Social Engineering

Social engineering is a tactic where the attacker influences the victim to obtain valuable information. Office employees are targeted to…

5 years ago

How has ethical hacking benefited the software industry

In an online world infested with hackers, we need more ethical hackers. But all around the world, hackers have long…

5 years ago

Emotet, dangerous botnet spams malicious emails, “targets 66,000 unique emails for more than 30,000 domain names” reports BleepingComputer

Three days ago, Emotet, a dangerous malware botnet was found sending malicious emails to many countries around the globe. The…

5 years ago

LastPass patched security vulnerability from the extensions generated on pop-up windows

Last week, the team behind LastPass, a password manager website, released an update to patch a security vulnerability that exposes…

5 years ago

Lilocked ransomware (Lilu) affects thousands of Linux-based servers

A ransomware strain named Lilocked or Lilu has been affecting thousands of Linux-based servers all over the world since mid-July…

5 years ago

Exim patches major security bug found in all versions that left millions of Exim servers vulnerable to security attacks

Last week, a vulnerability was found in all the versions of Exim, a mail transfer agent (MTA), that when exploited…

5 years ago

A bug found in Glibc limits modern SIMD instructions to only Intel, inhibiting performance of AMD and other CPUs

Yesterday, Mingye Wang reported a bug in the Glibc, GNU C Library. According to him, the dl_platform detection performs "cripple…

5 years ago

At DefCon 27, DARPA’s $10 million voting system could not be hacked by Voting Village hackers due to bug

At the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas, for the last two years, hackers have come to the Voting Village…

5 years ago