By Waqas

Researchers managed to cover a 50,000 seat football stadium using only four malicious portable stations. A group of security researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder has published a paper detailing the findings of their latest research revealing that LTE vulnerabilities can help attackers send out fake presidential alerts. To do this, they only need […]

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Earlier this month, Google disclosed that a supply chain attack by one of its vendors resulted in malicious software being pre-installed on millions of new budget Android devices. Google didn't exactly name those responsible, but said it believes the offending vendor uses the nicknames "Yehuo" or "Blazefire." What follows is a deep dive into the identity of that Chinese vendor, which appears to have a long and storied history of pushing the envelope on mobile malware.

Cryptomining will exist as long as it remains profitable. One of the most effective ways to disrupt that activity is to make it too expensive to run cryptomining malware in your network.

Finding dependencies between adversary techniques can allow security teams to better optimize their defenses, according to Mitre Corporation’s Andy Applebaum

By Owais Sultan

Parents should know if their under 18 child has these apps on their smartphone – No underage child should use these apps. Apart from being a great invention, smartphones are also taken as a most apt tool for killing time. Kids between the age of 11-19 spend 90 percent of their times on their cell […]

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By Owais Sultan

Parents should know if their under 18 child has these apps on their smartphone – No underage child should use these apps. Apart from being a great invention, smartphones are also taken as a most apt tool for killing time. Kids between the age of 11-19 spend 90 percent of their times on their cell […]

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Operation Soft Cell said to impact millions Millions of consumers have had their phone records and identities compromised as part of an advanced nation-state hacking campaign that has been targeting g

Popular file transfer service WeTransfer faces embarrassment this week after admitting that it had mailed file links to the wrong users.

Researchers have shown that it’s technically possible for hackers to target the US Presidential text Alerts system to send fake messages.

Senator Ron Wyden has written to NIST asking for guidance and training for government staff in how to share files securely.