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    NICOMINER GOES WILD, EXPLOITING MULTIPLE VULNERABILITIES TO MINE CRYPTOCURRENCY FROM SYSTEMS

    “NICO JIANG” – FROM A SMALL CRACKING TOOLS’ AUTHOR TO A MINER AUTHOR We all are adapting ourselves to the new normal where virtuality is the only way for authentication. But we can not ignore the fact that cryptocurrency is already known to get authentication without losing your identity. In this currency, authentication is just performed through a digital ledger and the identity of the person is kept anonymous. While some big influencers and celebrities like Elon Musk promote the use of this currency, from some past statistics, it has also been proven to be one of the best ways for the attackers to get paid for their illegal tasks.…

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    “TOP RATED DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN TRUSTED TOO.”- PROVED BY SOME TOP ALEXA WEBSITES!

    It is a universal truth for all of us that “Popular brands are always trusted”. Although, these brands sometimes charge more than the actual cost, but we all pay for that service because we have a belief that popular names always serve the best quality. The comparison of quality to that of brand name sometimes put a user in a strong dilemma whether to go for a particular service or not. But nowadays, advertising has  big impact on the users who caught by these dilemmas and play a big role in the success of a brand name. In today’s article, our agenda is not to make you realize the power…

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    A SINGLE VULNERABILITY IN APACHE COULD ALLOW ATTACKERS TO LAUNCH 8 DIFFERENT EXPLOITS TO TAKE OVER YOUR IT ASSETS

    It’s a matter of fact that to earn living, you need to serve required service to the people in one way or the other. Serving is the only way to survive in the environment. If you are a tech geek, you might know this fact that machines too communicate using this concept i.e there exists a server and the client requests for the required service. The server then accordingly response and entertains the end user uniquely. But do we actually know what’s makes a server differentiable from the client (as at the end they both are machines)? On the upper layer, any machines running the web server software like Apache…

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    THIS NEW VARIANT OF MYKINGS BOTNET IS SUPPORTED BY PCSHARE TROJAN TO MAKE YOUR SYSTEM A SLAVE!

    All the creatures around us are either masters who control slaves or slaves that are being controlled. Every master try to spread its region, but yes the number of slaves is always limited to per master. A master can made sub masters under its control to control more slaves. When the theory of master slave is being applied to machines, it becomes a little controversial to say who is master and who is slave as they both are controlled by humans who programmed them. When the term hacking is applied to this theory, it becomes a revenge. In the past, we have seen many trojans that are proved dangerous for…

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    BEWARE! YOUR TRUST ON WINDOWS DEFENDER MIGHT LET YOU DOWNLOAD MALWARE

    One of the most popular Operating systems around the internet, Microsoft Windows, is know well known among developers, security researchers, attackers to test, build and execute their strategies. The most sophisticated reason for this is that, for over 2 decades, Microsoft has billions of users from tech as well as non tech background. The company has worked well on its vulnerabilities, loopholes and provide timely updates to its users that helps them to be in sync with the internet and has protected them from greater damages. When it comes to security of windows operating system, it has a well known feature named Windows Defender. There is no doubt on the…