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Facebook’s latest feature Alerts

Facebook’s latest feature Alerts You if Someone Impersonates Your Profile Online harassment has been elevated a step with the advent of popular social networks like Facebook. Cyber stalkers create fake profiles impersonating other Facebook users and start doing activities on their behalf until and unless the owners notice the fake profiles and manually report it to Facebook. Even in some cases,…

7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By The FBI

7 Most Wanted Iranian Hackers By The FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has lengthened its Most Wanted List by adding seven Iranian hackers who are accused of attacking a range of US banks and a New York dam. On Thursday, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged seven Iranian hackerswith a slew of computer hacking offences for breaking into computer systems of dozens of…

Israeli Forensic Firm Celebrate is Helping FBI

Israeli Forensic Firm Celebrate is Helping FBI to Unlock Terrorist’s Iphone

et the security company that is helping Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in unlocking San Bernardino shooters’ iPhone: The Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite. Yes, Cellebrite – the provider of mobile forensic software from Israel – is helping the FBI in its attempt to unlock iPhone 5C that belonged to San…

More than a Billion Snapdragon-based Android Phones Vulnerable to Hacking

More than a Billion Snapdragon-based Android Phones Vulnerable to Hacking

More than a Billion of Android devices are at risk of a severe vulnerability in Qualcomm Snapdragonchip that could be exploited by any malicious application to gain root access on the device. Security experts at Trend Micro are warning Android users of some severe programming blunders in Qualcomm’s kernel-level Snapdragon…

NSA Data Center Experiencing 300 Million Hacking Attempts Per Day

NSA Data Center Experiencing 300 Million Hacking Attempts Per Day

  Utah State computer systems are experiencing a massive cyber attack on up to 300 Million Hacking attempts per day due to National Security Agency’s (NSA) data center in the state. Yes, 300,000,000 hacking attempts in a day! According to the statistical survey, it is evident that the computer systems in the US State of Utah began…

FBI Screwed Up –Police Reset Shooter’s Apple Id Passcode that Leaves Iphone Data Unrecoverable

FBI Screwed Up –Police Reset Shooter’s Apple Id Passcode that Leaves Iphone Data Unrecoverable

Another Surprising Twist in the Apple-FBI Encryption Case: The Apple ID Passcode Changedwhile the San Bernardino Shooter’s iPhone was in Government Custody. Yes, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been screwed up and left with no option to retrieve data from iPhone that belonged to San…

Find File Pattern Searches using grep Command

Find File Pattern Searches using grep Command

Have you ever been confronted with the task of looking for a particular string or pattern in a file, yet have no idea where to start looking? Well then, here is grep to the rescue!

grep is a powerful file pattern searcher that comes equipped on every distribution of Linux. If, for whatever reason, it is not installed on your system, you can easily…

How Just Opening an Ms Word Doc Hijack Every File on Your System

How Just Opening an Ms Word Doc Hijack Every File on Your System

If you receive a mail masquerading as a company’s invoice and containing a Microsoft Word file, think twice before clicking on it. Doing so could cripple your system and could lead to a catastrophic destruction. Hackers are believed to be carrying out social engineering hoaxes by adopting eye-catching subjects in the spam emails and…