The iPhone jailbreaking community is currently at work on a new jailbreak tool called Checkra1n, and a current scam pretending to offer the software baits users to a click-fraud site instead. PC Mag reported that Checkra1n is still in development and w…
A pair of malicious activities have become a stunning example of digital transformation – unfortunately on the darknet.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and an opportunity to reflect on the state of cybersecurity. Tools are now more sophisticated – and they have to be because of a wide variety of threats. And the sheer weirdness of some hacking never cease…
After paying his attacker €670, ransomware victim Tobias Frömel sought revenge by hacking into the attacker’s command and control center and generating decryption keys for all the other victims who suffered the same attack. Frömel explained to Bleeping…
Robin Selden, the chief marketing officer for Avast, speaks this month at the Women in Business Expo in England. Are you an entrepreneur going to the WIB Expo? Don’t miss the opportunity to pitch to Avast’s expert panel during the WIB Expo for the chan…
Autonomous devices gobbling Big Data and learning via artificial intelligence sounds like a dystopian nightmare facing humanity.
On May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation, better known by its acronym GDPR, came into force. For two years before that – the European Parliament approved GDPR in 2016 – businesses around the world hustled to comply. Fines coul…
You run a business, so the term “next-gen” may not be one you’re familiar with. But as cyberattacks become more sophisticated and more businesses fall victim to cybercriminals, it is important to know. Large companies have IT departments to deploy next…
The plot of HBO’s “Homeland,” in which terrorists try to hack into a world leader’s pacemaker, may not be so far-fetched, a report by CNN Health indicated. The report revealed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration discovered 11 security vulnerabil…
With large amounts of storage available on our modern smartphones, most of us have gotten into the habit of unconsciously snapping photo after photo, not giving a second thought to what that behavior might “cost” us. And that’s exactly what inspired a …