Tag: cybersecurity

The author of the original Petya ransomware that made news more than a year ago, known only by the name Janus, is now reaching out...

Just yesterday, a type of ransomware first identified as Petya, then subsequently named NotPetya or GoldenEye, started infecting about 2,000 machines across Europe, targeting...

Less than two months ago, the WannaCry ransomware attacks wreaked havoc on cybersecurity systems on more than 300,000 machines in 150 countries. The attacks,...

One of the biggest selling points for the Surface Laptop - currently the only device that runs the lighter Windows 10 S - is...

It's been a long-standing practice of Google to scan Gmail messages of users to find out what interests them so the ads served can...

There was a time when your home's computers and gadgets could be protected by antivirus software. Just buy a premium software application, load it...

A web hosting company in South Korea has agreed to pay ransomware attackers a whopping $1 million to get access to their files, according...

June's Patch Tuesday for Windows machines brought no less than 96 different patches for various vulnerabilities. That number also includes two vulnerabilities that are...

All through the WannaCry ransomware attacks, Microsoft kept telling users that Windows 10 was safe from being targeted. Now, however, security researchers from RiskSense...

It's great to have a digital assistant sitting in your home waiting to do your bidding, but most users of smart speakers and other...

AOL developer Ran Bar-Zik told Google on April 10, 2017 that a Google Chrome vulnerability allowed websites to record video and audio from users...

We recently saw how Windows 7 was easily the most affected Windows version as far as the rampant and persistent WannaCry ransomware attacks are...

The Windows ecosystem took a major hit over the past ten days because of the WannaCry ransomware worm that affected over 200,000 machines in...

If you've been the victim of a WannaCry ransomware attack, DO NOT PAY any money to the attackers. A french security researcher from Quarkslab,...

The global rampage that ransomware WannaCrypt, or Wanna Decryptor, is currently on is by no means a new form of extortion. It is a...