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CyberWisdom Head Spinner Find: Read this amazing article from abiusmaximus.com that leaves your head spinning… Read on. Secrets untold about the DNC hack, the core of RussiaGate Summary: The alleged hack of the Democratic Party National Committee (DNC) is one of the core stories in the RussiaGate narrative. Now analysis of the publicly available evidence shows some
SecurityAffair today reported ” The Tribune “purchased” a service being offered by anonymous sellers over WhatsApp that provided unrestricted access to details for any of the more than 1 billion Aadhaar numbers created in India thus far.” states The Tribune. “It took just Rs 500, paid through Paytm, and 10 minutes in which an “agent”
Cyberwisdom Commentary: DHS Office of Inspector General Case Management System Privacy incident shows 246,167 Federal Government employees’ personal sensitive information and the DNS believes that such cyber attacks are not made by outside actors.The incident disclosed the personally identifiable information of these individuals, including their names, social security numbers, date of birth, positions, grade and duty
With great technology, comes greater vulnerability. In today’s times, the less you know about the dangers of cyberspace, the more susceptible you become to malicious attacks. With the two recently found security bugs – Meltdown and Spectre, the cyberspace has become even more prone to a blowout. The newly found bugs could allow hackers to
Cyberwisdom Commentary: Experts believe it is developing a botnet, and operators have recently added scanning capabilities to search for vulnerable JBoss servers (leveraging CVE-2017-12149). It is estimated that by the end of December, the PyCryptoMiner botnet has generated approximately $ 46,000 in revenue. Experts say the PyCryptoMiner botnet is shunned because of its scripting-based nature