Marcus Hutchins, British cybersecurity researcher known for helping halt the WannaCry ransomware attack, pleaded guilty to accusations pertaining to the creation of a banking Trojan. Hutchins, known online as MalwareTech, was hailed as a “hero” after managing to halt the WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 by registering a domain Continue Reading
A security investigator recognized eight indiscreet databases that held about 60 million records of LinkedIn user information. GDI Foundation, where the security investigator is from, is a not-for-profit association with a task to protect the free and open Internet by trying to make it safer. The researcher, Sanyam Jain, contacted Continue Reading
The deep web is an unidentified online space only accessible with specific software, while the dark web is the part of the deep web that hides your identity and location. It’s essentially just “a series of encrypted networks that serve to anonymize peoples’ use on the internet and is relatively Continue Reading
On Wednesday, Cisco issued patches for 30 flaws, including a grave bug affecting ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit software. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2019-1710 and containing a CVSS score of 9.8, could allow an unverified, distant attacker to get access to internal applications running on Continue Reading
An advanced persistent threat (APT) is a wide-ranging term used to describe an attack drive in which a trespasser, or a group of trespassers, launches an illegitimate, long-term presence on a network in order to mine highly sensitive data. The targets of these attacks, which are very prudently selected and Continue Reading
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