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Google’s bug bounty program has always raised eyebrows with the huge bounties given to researchers for their exploits. But Google made an eye-popping announcement by declaring a US$1.5 million bug bounty reward for cracking Pixel’s Titan M secure element...
Popular caller-identification app Truecaller recently fixed a security flaw that could expose sensitive user data, location, and system information to attackers. The flaw came to light after an India-based security researcher Ehraz Ahmed reported the issue. The Truecaller app provides...
Sean Pea, Head of Threat Analysis, Asia Pacific, Darktrace joined the company in 2017 after serving DSO National Laboratories, where he worked as a computer security researcher. Darktrace is the world’s leading cyber AI company and the creator of...
Rouen University Hospital Center (CHU) in northern France suffered a major ransomware attack. Nearly 6,000 hospital computers were infected forcing the staff to resort to pen and paper usage for data entry and daily operations. CHU is spread over five...
The security team at One Plus confirmed a data breach that exposed sensitive details from certain customers’ orders which included their contact numbers, names and addresses. As per the FAQ page on the  One Plus website, the data breach took...
Security researchers discovered an open Elasticsearch server that contains unique data records of around 1.2 billion users. According to the security analysts Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia, the server holds more than 4 terabytes of data, without password protection...
Check Point Software Technologies, a leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, today announces a new IoT cybersecurity technology.  Check Point claims to be the first company to provide a consolidated security solution that hardens and protects the firmware of...
Nigeria is one among the few countries in the MENA region that is marching ahead in the space of ICT and is set to draw comparisons to its European counterparts with respect to technological innovations. Several initiatives taken by...
Researchers exposed a new form of banking malware named “Ginp” targeting Android users. According to specialists from ThreatFabric, attackers use Ginp malware to steal users’ bank credentials, messages, and credit/debit card details, focusing on the Spanish banks’ customers. ThreatFabric stated...
Are your files infected by Hakbit Ransomware? Yes. But don’t worry. Emsisoft, a specialized cybersecurity company has released a decryptor for your assistance. As per Emsisoft, Hakbit Ransomware encrypts its victims’ files using AES-256 (AES stands for Advanced Encryption Standard)...