Reading Time: 3 minutes Artificial Intelligence (A.I) is touching lives in the most intimate of manners and seems to be playing a vital role in creating a new and better world for us human beings. The news that Apple recently brought a Seattle-based A.I startup Turi for $200 million, most likely as part of its efforts to boost the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes This should come as a surprise, a mild or perhaps not-so-mild shock, to those many people who lock their computer screens while temporarily moving away. Well, your system, your data is not secure when you do so. It’s just a USB device that’s needed to steal critical data from your locked system. This might be…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Fantom, a new ransomware discovered recently, strikes disguised as a legitimate Microsoft Windows update. Thus it tricks users into downloading it, thereby paving the way for data breach… Malware researcher Jakub Kroustek of security firm AVG has discovered this rather sophisticated malware. Ransomware, as we know, refers to the malware that helps hackers block systems…

Reading Time: 2 minutes DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service attacks) and the data breaches that accompany such attacks are of serious consequence; these constitute the major share of cyber-attacks that happen and the consequences are mostly very devastating too. Such DDoS attacks are made possible by botnets. What are Botnets and DDoS attacks? Botnets are networks (of computers,…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Project Sauron- that’s the name of the sinister malware that has been spying on government computers and computers at major organizations for over five years. Researchers who have detected this malware have given it the name Project Sauron because of the reference to Sauron, the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Samsung Pay reportedly has security flaws, as serious as POS security flaws, that could help hackers skim credit cards wirelessly and make fraudulent transactions. Security researcher Salvador Mendoza, who has discovered the limitations in Samsung Pay’s security, has explained that these limitations could be used by a hacker in any other phone to make fraudulent…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Clash of Kings is a very popular mobile game with millions of avid players being members of its official forum. This forum has got hacked and details of approximately 1.6 million accounts have been stolen. The hacker found a vulnerability in the software used in this forum – the forum was using vBulletin software that…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The latest malware to hit Mac operating systems is the EasyDoc Converter. Cyber security experts have discovered this dangerous Mac malware on reputed online websites offering applications and software for the Mac OS. If Mac users still believe that their systems cannot get infected then they better get wary now. The EasyDoc Converter poses to…

Reading Time: 3 minutes US politician and Texas Representative Michael C.Burgess has voiced a very strong opinion regarding the issue of malware attacks when he said that Ransomware perpetrators should be “shot at sunrise”. He made this comment at the encryption hearing before a House subcommittee on Tuesday. The comment that Mr. Burgess has made deserves special mention, especially…

Reading Time: 3 minutes Today, Comodo announced availability of its next version of its free Comodo IT management platform, Comodo One MSP version 3.1. Comodo One MSP (formerly known as Comodo ONE) is a version of the Comodo One integrated IT management platform that has been specifically enhanced for MSPs by combining Remote Monitoring and Management, Service Desk, and…