Police Robot calls manufacturer instead of police officers
The Huntingdon Park police near Los Angeles has rolled out several robot police in public spaces around the city. However, reports and testimonies reveal that these autonomous police robots may not...
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Omegle throws jabs at China: ‘Xi = Pooh!’
Omegle, a popular online chat room website, has made a political statement against China amid the on-going political unrest that is currently happening in the regain over Beijing’s insistence of...
View ArticleGoogle bans lending apps with interest rates higher than 36%
The Google Play Store bans lending apps to campaign against payday lenders with exploitative interest rates. The new financial policy in the Play Store was silently rolled out by Google in August. In...
View ArticleApple sends browser data to Chinese tech giant, Tencent
Apple has silently included a new line in its Privacy & Security tab under Safari where it indicates that it will be sending browser data to the Chinese tech giant, Tencent. The information was...
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Omegle intensifies messages against China
Omegle inches its fight against the alleged human rights abuses committed by the Chinese government with more provocative statements posted on its website. The popular anonymous chatting website has...
View ArticleTwitter rules for world leaders including Trump reaffirmed
Twitter faces pressure from users to remove President Donald Trump from its platform. However, the social media giant has claimed that world leaders are not above its rules. Twitter has also upheld...
View ArticlePixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL boasts functionality over design; Pre-order starts today
During Google’s annual “Made by Google” event last Tuesday, the company unveiled the new introductions to its line of hardware devices. The tech company also presented its latest flagship, the Pixel 4...
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Two cashback sites leaked data of 3.5 million users
Two popular cashback services have leaked nearly two terabytes worth of personally identifiable information (PII) and account data in an unprotected Elastic database. The two cashback websites have...
View ArticleHackers are selling Jackpotting Malware that ejects cash from ATMs for $1000...
Joint investigative work has uncovered that a new strain of malware has been deployed in the wild, which aims to rob banks by tricking ATM systems into ejecting all the money it contains. The attack...
View ArticleBitcoin trail led to nabbing of giant child porn site
Authorities in the U.S. and South Korea apprehended and closed down what they refer to as one of the biggest markets of child porn by following the trail of Bitcoin transactions. The law enforcement...
View ArticleNine zero-day vulnerabilities found in Android VoIP
At least nine zero-day vulnerabilities were discovered by Chinese bug bounty researchers that exists in the more recent versions of Android OS. The vulnerabilities specifically target the VoIP...
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Vatican releases smart Click to Pray e-Rosary to attract youngsters
The Vatican is taking advantage of smart technology to attract the younger generation with the newly launched Click to Pray e-Rosary. The “Click to Pray e-Rosary” is a device targeted to young people...
View ArticleRussian ‘Cozy Bear’ hackers are back in the wild
After being away from the public eye for the past three years, cybersecurity experts have once again spotted the notorious Cozy Bear hackers in the wild; this time, they have rebuilt their arsenal and...
View ArticleStolen credit card data seller BriansClub, hacked
In a matter of poetic justice, an online fraud bazaar that is known to be selling stolen credit card data, BriansClub, has been hacked, revealing more than 26 million credit and debit card records,...
View ArticleHow to remove yourself off the Internet?
A Twitter user going by the name Liam has made a thread on how an average person can remove 99.9% of his or her digital footprint from the Internet, which has called the attention over whether or not...
View ArticleYahoo announces shut down of Yahoo Groups
Yahoo Groups will be shutting down after more than 18 years. On December 14, Yahoo will be deleting all the content that has been posted on the platform. Yahoo announced the addition of Groups to its...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg slams China and TikTok
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has criticized TikTok during his speech at Georgetown University. He said the Chinese government has pressured TikTok into censoring messages of support for the ongoing Hong...
View ArticleZappos data breach settlement is insulting
The seven-year-long class action suit against Zappos, an e-commerce site owned by Amazon, is about to end with a settlement agreement between the company and the victims of the data breach that has...
View ArticleIndia calls for bidders to build a centralized facial recognition infrastructure
The government of India has called for huge tech companies to bid for their most ambitious facial recognition technology project which aims to aggregate and centralize all facial recognition data from...
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SnapTube discovered faking ad clicks and defrauding 40M users
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged more than 70 million advertising clicks submitted by the popular video downloading app called SnapTube because those clicks were apparently non-human,...
View Article7 Million Adobe Creative Cloud Users Could Be Exposed To Phishing Attacks
At least seven million people were put at risk of possible phishing campaigns after their personal data, and email addresses were exposed in an unprotected database owned by the popular graphic and...
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Facebook takes web hosts to court for hosting phishing sites
Social media giant, Facebook, edges its crackdown against sites that sell hacking tools and phishing kits that can be used to target the platform. This time, Facebook is taking the domain hosts where...
View Article‘I’ll Be Back’ Attack: the biggest cyber-attack in Georgia
Multiple targets, including some TV sites, government and court websites, and businesses around Georgia, have been attacked by a cyber-attack, which led to thousands of sites going offline and...
View ArticleFacebook to pay ICO fine without admitting liability on Cambridge Analytica...
Social media giant, Facebook, and the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has reached a settlement which withdraws the appeal on the fine imposed by the ICO to the former for its role in...
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xHelper Android malware re-installs itself after factory reset
A new strain of Android malware called “xHelper” has been spotted and is currently earning notoriety among cybersecurity experts and users as it has already targetted 32,000 devices by August, which...
View ArticleTwitter bans political ads, CEO Jack Dorsey announced
In a series of tweets, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced on Wednesday that the microblogging and social media platform would no longer allow political advertisements. Using his personal Twitter...
View ArticleBitcoin trading platform, BitMex, reset all user passwords after data breach
Seychelles-based bitcoin futures exchange BitMEX initiated a mandatory password reset to all users of the crypto exchange and trading platform. The company decided to do the necessary after receiving...
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Facebook new logo is an attempt to fix its dying reputation
Social media and tech giant Facebook, has unveiled a new logo, ending an era of branding that has become a familiar icon in today’s world. The change comes following a series of controversies and...
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Chinese Hackers APT41 uses MessageTap Malware to read people’s SMS
A group of hackers — known to be commissioned by the Chinese government to carry out sophisticated cybercrimes and cyber espionage campaigns — have been tapping into the servers of telecommunication...
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Asus router app data breach exposes info of Alexa users
Alexa users around the world have had their data compromised after an Asus wi-fi controller app has leaked information in an unprotected Elasticsearch database, a report from the cybersecurity experts...
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Facebook is testing facial recognition-based identity verification
Amidst the privacy issues that are surrounding Facebook and the growing social backlash against facial recognition technology, a researcher has found that the tech giant is currently testing a facial...
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Researchers discover DarkUniverse hacking group
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) organization by analyzing one of the most significant security breaches in the U.S. National Security Agency history. Dubbed...
View ArticleCalifornia DMV Exposed More Than 3,200 Drivers’ Social Security Info
More than 3,200 Californians had their Social Security information leaked to several federal agencies after the California Department of Motor Vehicles admitted on Tuesday that they had suffered a...
View ArticleMicrosoft HoloLens 2 now officially available for $3,500
The appointed release date for Microsoft Hololens 2 has finally come, and it will be shipping to all customers who pre-ordered the product starting today. The Microsoft HoloLens 2 augmented reality...
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IronMarch exposed: mysterious hacker leaks neo-nazi forum database
Different entities including law enforcement in the United States and other parts of the world are currently analyzing the contents of the neo-nazi forum after a mysterious hacker have publicly...
View ArticleInstagram to visually remove like counts in the U.S.
Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri has made a major announcement today at the WIRED25 conference that like counts in Instagram posts will be removed at certain regions in the United States as part of a...
View ArticlePotential Facebook vulnerability on iOS 13.2.2 opens camera without...
A potential technical security bug has been spotted affecting Facebook users using iOS devices. The possible bug, specifically persistent in applications run through iOS 13.2.2 version of the...
View ArticleFTC settlement with spyware company Retina-X is an oxymoron
For quite some time, a tech company called Retina-X has been developing and selling stalkerware applications that are marketed as a way for parents and employers to track and “spy” on their children...
View ArticleWeekly Cybersecurity Round-Up
The state of cybersecurity in the world has been deteriorating year after year. However, last week proved that while malicious actors are lurking behind the shadows of the internet, there will always...
View ArticleGoogle Nest apparently down and inaccessible (again)
Within the last few hours, a significant number of Google Nest users have reported that they cannot access the app service, negatively affecting a good number of Nest devices worldwide once again. Hi...
View ArticleLatest iPad Pro with 3D sensors heading for 2020 (rumor)
Looks like the next-generation iPad Pro is coming sooner than we think, and will be even more AR-optimized than ever before. According to Bloomberg, or at least according to its trusted sources, Apple...
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Buran ransomware is being sold for a discount
The Buran Ransomware, a newly discovered strain of malware has been found to be marketed as a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) among cybercriminal communities, and the developers of the malicious...
View ArticleBots will take down voting systems ahead of 2020 elections, expert predicts
By 2020, the internet bots are expected to “become increasingly sophisticated” in its operations in mimicking the human online behaviour but could also affect e-commerce and IoT, an expert said. The...
View ArticleFacebook finally fixes bug that opens camera while using app
Facebook has finally fixed the bug that accidentally opens the camera of the users and runs it in the background as users scroll through the popular social media application. The tech giant said that...
View ArticleThis new Motorola Razr smartphone is the next-gen flip phone
The original Motorola Razr is back again! Well, sort of. Today, the cool and rad classic flip phone has just made a huge comeback with the reveal of its latest smartphone iteration. Foldable screen...
View ArticleFTC sues InfoTrax Systems for data breach affecting 1M users
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) takes InfoTrax Systems to court for its alleged failure to protect the data entrusted to them by their client after a series of intrusions that have scraped...
View ArticleData breach is linked to more heart attack deaths in hospitals
Researchers were able to correlate data breach that have affected hospitals across the United States and the uptick in the fatality rates and heart attack response rate in the hospitals that...
View Article‘Tarmac’ malware hits Mac computers through malvertising
Mac computers are thought to be one of the most secure personal computers in the market. However, a new malware has proved contrary to the claim after researchers have found a malvertising strain that...
View ArticleMeet Spot, the robotic police dog
The Massachusetts State Police is the first law enforcement agency in the country to utilize a robotic dog in its operations, named Spot. Robotic technology is not entirely a new concept in the ranks...
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Google News Launched A New Publisher Center
The Google News team released a redesign of the Google News Publisher Center. According to the official statement released by the Google Team, the changes will “help publishers more easily manage how...
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