According to recent attacks on an enterprise we have explored till now, the study shows that the causes are the common vulnerabilities which administrators give least importance. There is no doubt on the fact that these common vulnerabilities are one of the creamy things that every hacker tries to find in a system but these vulnerabilities are not the only thing that can leave a system exposed. In today’s time, every sector are somewhat dependent on third party softwares to expand their vision and functionalities. But with growing functionalities, the security of a system becomes more vulnerable as then the system has more vectors to attack. For example, every web…
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CRYLOGGER: A TOOL THAT MADE 306 APPS CRY FOR CRYPTOGRAPHY
The place where the 21 century humans as well as bot resides together is the Internet. Either it is social media or it is just any other application, with the advancement of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, it becomes difficult to identify whether the counterpart on the other side is a human being or a programmed bot. As a result, humans exchange information with such bots that lead to privacy issues. With the increase in traffic on the internet from last decade, tech giants Google, Facebook, Whatsapp are still regularly questioned on user’s privacy. There is no doubt on the fact that these giants have answered most of the questions…
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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…
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BEWARE ABOUT THIS FAKE CISCO! IT CAN PUT YOUR ORGANIZATION’S SECURITY AT RISK
It is a well known fact that Cisco is the most popular brand whenever there is demand of networking products in your organizations. In the past some years, Cisco has been serving well to its customers as well as maintaining its quality and servicing so that it’s customer can perform better. No doubt they are the best, but what if this name can let your organization in danger? Yes, you heard it right. A similar kind of situation has bee analyzed by the researchers of F-secure labs. Still it is very difficult to believe on the fact that someone can compromise the security of organization under the name of Cisco.…
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REVOCATION OF CERTIFICATES EVADE TRUST FROM LEGAL SITES
While surfing website from modern web browsers like Chrome, Safari, Edge, in the top URL bar, you’ve definitely encountered a lock sign. This lock sign makes a good impression on your mind either it is a legal site or a phishing website. There are many chances that when the website shows you the warning “Your connection to this site is not private”, that website no longer exist in your good books. But what if a valid site gets a tag of insecure connection? Same thing has been happened with around 2000 websites out there on the internet, observed by researchers from Netcraft. On 11 July, Digicert(a Certificate Issuing Authority) revokes…
