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Akamai’s incapability to protect, dups its customer after massive DDOS attack, Google anti-DDOS protection to the rescue of krebsonsecurity

(Image: starwars.wikia.com) Last week KrebsOnSecurity.com was targeted by massive 620Gbps DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service Attack) and Kerbs had to take his site down for days. The decision of taking the site down was made after Akamai (aka Prolexic) decides that the pro bono service they were offering was costing them and their customers in millions and […]
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WhatsApp, aka Facebook was sued in India by two college students due to concerns over Privacy

After the recent changes to privacy policy on WhatsApp , people around the world feels to have betrayed by Facebook’s decision. To challenge this, two students from India have filed a legal challenge against Facebook to roll back changes to Whats App policy, which is threatening the rights of millions of users in India. The […]
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Steps to Change your Whatsapp Settings before Facebook Begins Sharing data  – Android & Iphone

From the first time you see the privacy policy update screen on WhatsApp ( both iPhone & Android phones) , you have 30 days to click through and agree or not agree to Facebook, using your Whatsapp data to suggest friends and serve ads hampering your experience. We highly recommended to follow the below steps to help privacy invasion by […]
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Whatsup which is now Facebook, backstabs its users by sharing users data

It was long due before Facebook made its move to share data between Whatsup app and Facebook after the acquisition. Facebook is known to invade its users privacy with a claim of openness by its CEO Mark Zuckerburg and it did it again last week to monetize as much as possible with a decision to […]
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Windows 10 – Evil to the Core for Privacy and pain for the users

Last evening I left my desktop running the whole night on a photoshop job. Today morning my desktop was showing “blue screen of death ” with a message and a hung desktop. “Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart, we’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you” Microsoft […]
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The Eleventh HOPE conference attracts audience from a broad areas of interest at New York City

The most admired and well known hacker convention “HOPE” which takes place every two years in the heart of New York City attracted some of the greatest security experts from various disciplines. Hope – 2016  (The Eleventh HOPE) had some of the great speakers from various areas of security and tons of hacker talks about how […]
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The mobile game ‘Clash of Kings’ was hacked and 1.6 million user info exposed

The Clash of the Kings is one of the most liked game on the mobile environment with more than 100 million downloads but recent hack exposes its 1.6 million gamer information exposed. The hacker exploited outdated vBulletin software(forum’s) and the vulnerability  dates back to late 2013 which includes easily exploited security flaws. The exposed data includes usernames, […]
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Pokemon Go servers down by DDoS attack- OurMine claims credit

PokemonGO was released two weeks back and its already making names all over the world. Last weekend Pokemon was targeted by a group of hackers named “OurMine” took the site down with massive DDoS. The users might have had difficulty logging to the Pokemon and the company displayed the messaged a below. In a post of Ourmine , the […]
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T-mobile insider employee steals 1.5 million customer information and sells the dump to make quick money

Its been Tmobile  been unlucky last year  by a massive breach and now by an internal employee who sold more than 1.5 millionCzech Republic customer data. As per the local media MF DNES, it is unknown how much of name, e-mail address, account number and various other information the marketing database contained. T-Mobile Czech Republic […]
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Information of customers of 14 companies being sold on Dark Web

After the TalkTalk incident when data of over 1.2 million customers was stolen and leaked online; The Mail has reported that 14 other companies are also victims of similar attack. The Mail has also reported in its news item that the stolen data is being sold on “Dark Web” that can be accessed from a […]
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