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Ever wondered that the Guardian of your system software that is meant to protect your system against malware attacks can step into the breach? A recent security research demonstrated a popular anti-malware app called Adware Doctor that was supposed to protect Apple MAC users against privacy and security threat, ironically, siphoned off browsing history and information about system processes and applications. It turns out that Apple; the most convincing consumer electronics and computer software brand in terms of security is under interrogation for not acting quickly in removing the dubious app. What is Adware Doctor? Adware Doctor was one of the top paid apps (sold for $14.99) in the Mac app Store with 4.8 star rating and over 7,000 reviews. The app claimed to: 1. Remove suspicious and unwanted extensions 2. Clear Browser cookies and caches to restore your browser 3. Remove Adware, malware and other nasty system infections from Apple PCs. 4. Kill annoying pop-ups and 5. R...

HTML5 is the latest version of HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) that offers new attributes, elements and behaviors allowing the design of websites and applications with a  powerful and diverse mechanism. HTML5 new API allows us to play the video\audio within the browser without installing cumbersome browser plug-in (like flash). Google Chrome, a widely used browser platform recently plucked a bug that had enabled the abuse of video and audio HTML tags by cyber miscreants to embezzle important user information. Google tagged this vulnerability as CVE-2018-6177 and t has successfully fixed with the release of Chrome version 68.0.3440.75. Users who continue to use the older versions may fall in the trap of threat actors who may exploit this bug to lure users to the malicious websites. Read Full Article Click Here

Banks remain a favorite target of cyber criminal activities. Use of internet, virtualization and digitization has eased our business and dealing with money. On the other hand it has also escalated cyber crime activities. In order to ameliorate the performance of financial transactions such as cash withdrawals, deposits, fetching account information, transfer funds etc the idea of cash machine was proposed in 1967. Since then these cash machines known as ATMs (Automated teller Machines) are widely used and besides offering convenience to the customers, they have also proven beneficial in reducing the workload of bank’s staff. With the growing cyber crime activities, undertaking precautions and regularly updating cyber preparedness and defence mechanism is important. However a large number of institutions stir up only post an incident that causes financial misappropriation or loss of reputation. Recently Cosmos Bank, India’s second largest cooperative bank suffered a breach on i...

Earlier when most web browsers were designed, the web pages were simple and hence were rendered in the same process, to keep resource usage low. However, with the growing technology, there has been a significant shift in the active web page content. Ranging from pages designed using JavaScript to make the web pages interactive and create richer user interfaces with reduced server load to Flash, a technology used by Adobe to show animation on web pages, web-pages nowadays are full of “web apps”. Browsers that keep all the running apps in one process may face real challenges related to security, responsiveness and robustness. 1. If one web app crashes, it will take the entire web browser with it, including all the web apps that are open. 2. Web apps have to compete for CPU time, on a single thread rendering the browser unresponsive at times. 3. Some webpage may have malicious code embedded that may compromise the entire system. Hence the browser must keep different apps isolated ...

Phishing activities are becoming a flop with growing Artificial Intelligence powered phishing detection technologies. Email services and web security scanners use these anti phishing mechanisms to detect malicious emails. One such attempt is implemented by Microsoft in their Office 365 version to safeguard users from harmful emails and links. In Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), a cloud based email filtering service is used to protect users and their organizations against malware and viruses. Like Microsoft Office 365, many emails and web security services are based on natural language processing and to identify malicious or phishing emails faster. However cyber criminals can’t take a back seat! Recent news reveals that email scammers and cyber crooks have come up with a new technique that would allow their phishing emails to bypass the protection implemented by Microsoft in office 365. This new technique evolved by maleficent developers involves manipulating ...