Programmers are said to have been affected by ransomware that apparently smears their Git repositories’ commits, replacing them with a ransom note challenging Bitcoin. An extraordinarily high number of developers have complained online about the impacts of the software foul, with the repos affected being hosted across a number of Continue Reading
Docker, the company behind the popular containerization app, has conceded to a violation of its Hub database of container pictures, revealing the particulars of roughly 190,000 users.
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
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
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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