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Reliance Jio Customers’ Data Allegedly Hacked – Company Denies Breach

Personal details of some 120 Million customers have been allegedly exposed on the Internet in probably the biggest breach of personal data ever in India. Last night, an independent website named Magicapk.com went online, offering Reliance Jio customers to search for their identification data (Know Your Customer or KYC) just …

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WannaCry Kill-Switch(ed)? It’s Not Over! WannaCry 2.0 Ransomware Arrives

If you are following the news, by now you might be aware that a security researcher has activated a “Kill Switch” which apparently stopped the WannaCry ransomware from spreading further. But it’s not true, neither the threat is over yet. However, the kill switch has just slowed down the infection …

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Don’t Fall For This Dangerously Convincing Ongoing Phishing Attack

Security researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign targeting Gmail users, which is so convincing and highly effective that even tech-savvy people can be tricked into giving away their Google credentials to hackers. The attackers first compromise a victim’s Gmail account, and once they are in, they start rifling through …

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Everything You Need to Know on Tor & the Deep Web

Many people think that the whole of the internet can be accessed on their normal browsers such as Chrome, IE or Firefox. This is not the case. These mainstream browsers only give you access to 4% of the actual internet. There is a further 96% of hidden content in a …

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602 Gbps! This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History

Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend services of a host connected to the Internet. Until now, nearly every big website had been a victim of this …

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Terrorists Targeting Indian Government

The Potential threat, range from very narrow to very broad, posed by Cyber-Terrorism has provoked considerable alarm. Terrorists involved in Cyber Espionage and Operations aim at gaining access to Nation’s critical infrastructure involving both Government as well as Private sectors. The Frequency and Intensity of such Cyber-attacks are increasing rapidly …

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‘Dropbox Hacker’ Claims To Have 7 Million Passwords

Dropbox users, it may be time to update your passwords and enable two-factor authentication. A hacker claims to have stolen some 7 million usernames and passwords for the popular cloud-based file storage and sharing service. Someone posted a series of links on reddit Monday evening to files that purportedly contain …

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Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps

A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of over 150 gigabits per second (Gbps). The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20 websites per day, according to an …

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