Category : Security

Billion Android phones are vulnerable to hackers — make sure you are not one

Billion Android phones are vulnerable to hackers — make sure you are not one

The UK consumer watchdog Which. made headlines last week when it declared that "more than one billion Android devices are vulnerable to hacker attacks...

New Android Malware Can Steal Your Facebook Account: How to Stop It

New Android Malware Can Steal Your Facebook Account: How to Stop It

A new strain of android malware is attempting to hijack Facebook user accounts.Named Cookiethief by the Kaspersky researchers who discovered it, the m...

Fake Coronavirus Map Infecting Your Computer: Protect Yourself Now

Fake Coronavirus Map Infecting Your Computer: Protect Yourself Now

Johns Hopkins University has published a very useful online map that tracks the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 in real time. Some bad ...

Dangerous Windows Flaws can lead to Mass Worm Attacks: What You Can Do [Update]

Dangerous Windows Flaws can lead to Mass Worm Attacks: What You Can Do [Update]

UPDATE: This has been corrected as of March 12. Details are as follows. This article first appeared on March 11, 2019.Just before distributing yesterd...

Coronavirus Fraudsters will be prosecuted as soon as possible, US Attorney General says

Coronavirus Fraudsters will be prosecuted as soon as possible, US Attorney General says

[U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr has ordered federal prosecutors to bring to justice cybercriminals and those peddling fake cures who are taking...

Coronavirus tracking: Your phone's location data could be used to fight the pandemic

Coronavirus tracking: Your phone's location data could be used to fight the pandemic

[COVID-19 Government officials and health experts are in talks with tech giants about how access to Americans' cell phone location data could help ste...

"Coronavirus Safety Mask" Scam will Text All Your Friends: How to Avoid It

"Coronavirus Safety Mask" Scam will Text All Your Friends: How to Avoid It

Do you want a "coronavirus safety mask" and think you can get it through an Android app? If so, you're about to fall victim to a bizarre multi-step sc...

Coronavirus Scams Are Stealing Passwords: What to Do

Coronavirus Scams Are Stealing Passwords: What to Do

The Folding@home project, which since 2000 has used the CPU and GPU cycles of millions of volunteers' home and workplace computers to solve biomedical...