Category : Security

Thousands of Netgear Routers Are at Risk of Being Hacked: What to Do

Thousands of Netgear Routers Are at Risk of Being Hacked: What to Do

Netgear distributed a patch for home networking devices this week, covering seven modem router gateways, one range extender, and more than 40 routers,...

Google Chrome and other browsers let any website track you - here's how to stop it

Google Chrome and other browsers let any website track you - here's how to stop it

SAN FRANCISCO -- Your Web browser is leaking far more information than you think, two researchers said at the RSA conference here last week. [But ther...

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...