Mozilla Pens Open Letter Saying Aadhaar Can Become a Privacy Disaster

Since Indian Government launched Aadhaar, many privacy organizations in the world are concerned about the digital security of Indian citizens, and rightly so. With Indian governments push to connect every other service including banking and finances, tax services, and mobile numbers to a person’s Aadhaar ID, the program basically turns into a single point of…

Smart TVs Are Spying On You, and Can Be Easily Hacked: Consumer Reports

After PCs and smartphones, now is the time for smart TVs to fall prey to hacking attacks and compromise the privacy of users. Well, we certainly don’t want it to happen, but that’s exactly the chilling reality which device testing expert Consumer Reports has unearthed in its assessment of smart TVs from top brands like…

Key Apple iPhone Source Code Exposed On Github In ‘Biggest Leak In History’

In what seems to be the biggest leak in Apple’s history, an anonymous person has just posted a key iPhone source code for a core component of the iOS operating system on GitHub. According to a report published on Motherboard, the source code can easily pave the way for hackers and security researchers for finding…

HotSpot Shield VPN Vulnerability Leaks Data to Hackers

Using a VPN is the need of the hour if you are living in a world where every online activity is being tracked, monitored and access is controlled by governments and corporations. But what happens when the VPN itself is leaking the data it is supposed to be protecting? Well, that is the question staring…

Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Infected Over Half-Million PCs Using NSA Exploit

2017 was the year of high profile data breaches and ransomware attacks, but from the beginning of this year, we are noticing a faster-paced shift in the cyber threat landscape, as cryptocurrency-related malware is becoming a popular and profitable choice of cyber criminals. Several cybersecurity firms are reporting of new cryptocurrency mining viruses that are…

Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites

A simple yet serious application-level denial of service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress CMS platform that could allow anyone to take down most WordPress websites even with a single machine—without hitting with a massive amount of bandwidth, as required in network-level DDoS attacks to achieve the same. Since the company has denied patching…