Zuckerberg Twitter Hack Could Have Been Avoided With Better Passwords

Passwords are very valuable thus it should be strong, complex and hard to guess. The news of hacked twitter account of Mark Zuckerberg has spread like fire. It can be a important reminder that hackers are just a point away from accessing your social media accounts. Most of the people create passwords that are not only easy to crack but can even be guessed at once.

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Hacker Hacked 32M Twitter Account and Selling It on Dark Web

The biggest Social Media Network has been hacked by hackers and around 32 millions of Twitter account’s username and password has been hacked and it is sold on dark web.

However, A Twitter representative said “said “We are confident that these usernames and credentials were not obtained by a Twitter data breach – our systems have not been breached. In fact, we’ve been working to help keep accounts protected by checking our data against what’s been shared from recent other password leaks”.

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Avoid These Worst Risky Password Ideas

Usually, people never think before creating any password which is the quite risky. Before creating nay password, you should be very careful because sometimes unknowingly it may out you at risk.

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Steps You Can Take To Stop Ransomware To Lock Your PC

People out there are so confused that whether crime really pays? The answer is yes, victims who are affected with ransomware need to pay. Cyber criminals and hackers increasingly rely on the extortion-style attack in order to make the users who are unaware of these attacks to pay ransom money in order to unlock their own encrypted data.

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New TeslaCrypt variant now uses the .MP3 Extension

The new variant of TeslaCrypt ransomware was released with some slight changes. But still it’s version number is 3.0. but ransom notes is renamed and the file extension for encrypted files is now .MP3. Unfortunately now there is no way to decrypt the latest version of TeslaCrypt.

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Ransomware bug leads to Petya decryptor

Ransomware keep on rising to an extreme dangerous level and unfortunately a new ransomware bug known as Petya Ransomware is welcomed in dark cyberworld. Ransomware Virus is so dangerous that usually user ends up paying ransom money to get access to their own encrypted data.

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Few Important Tips to Protect Yourself From Identity Theft

While accessing the social media sites, there is always a danger of leaking your personal information over the internet. So, how your personal identities can can be preserved or protected from Identity Theft, Protect Yourself on Social Networks, Identity Theft on Social Media, Identity Protection? 

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Essential Ways to Protect Your Online Identity

 

 

This is a kind of topic that has been into discussion from so many years but the bad part is that there are still users who are attacked by identity theft and other security breaks.

For every individual internet has turned out to be chief requirement. Whether it is personal or business, internet are extremely useful. Apart from that a general user will be using it for social sites and social networking is a kind of place where almost all our private information’s are freely available to everyone online. And hence chances for online scams, security threats and other threats increases.

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Tricks To Tackle Ransomware Extortion Attacks In 2016

Ransomware is nothing but is a kind of profitable businesses for cybercriminals and is a vital pain for the end-users and the business. Ransomware is getting more and more aggressive. Usually, the Windows handling complement was the targeted, but these Android Operating System and Linux are being targeted. It has been determined by the security experts that this continues to take place then it can be frightful for a normal user.

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Email Scams To Beware of

You must be very well familiar with different types of scamming, as nowadays it is quiet common. Even there are various websites that directly or indirectly take your personal credential information, bank details by fooling you. Here, in this post we are discussing about the topmost common email scams that litter inboxes across the world.

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New Ransomware PadCrypt: The first with Live Chat Support

PadCrypt is a new ransomware discovered by @abuse.ch and analyzed by MalwareHunterTeam that implement a chat interface embedded in its product. For the first time a ransomware virus offers a live support chat feature as well as an uninstaller for its victims.

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Computer Virus FBI Warning Pay To Unlock Your Computer

The recent outbreak of ransomware virus also known as FBI Virus and MoneyPak FBI Virus has been increasing with every single day. A very wrong conception we have about this Virus is that it is similar to other unwanted malicious programs. 

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5 Easy Ways To Keep Your Identity Safe

We are bombarded with the articles about identity theft and how to keep your identity safe still we tend to make mistakes.  But avoiding identity theft is quite cheap and easy. 

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Tips To Protect Your PC From Email viruses?

Email and IM(instant messaging ) are very important communication medium  for keeping in touch with your friends and family. But it is used in wrong manner than it can make your system vulnerable to spam, viruses and various online threats.

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Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability Discovered in WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast

A blind SQL injection vulnerability was recently encountered in the popular WordPress SEO plugin by Yoast. Millions of WordPress websites that uses this popular plug-in to optimize their search engine results are at risk of being hacked.

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WebRTC Vulnerability leaks Real IP Addresses of VPN Users

Now Virtual private network (VPN) and proxy users need to be more careful in order to protect their accounts as new serious security issues has now come into existence. The threat allows websites to see local home IP addresses the massive flaw comes in by way of WebRTC (Web RTC, Web Real-Time Communication) and the browsers that support this communications protocol.

What is Web RTC?

WebRTC is ultimately the technology that simplifies an incorporation of real-time communications into a web browser. It is an open-sourced protocol that supports browser-to-browser apps for voice calling, video chat, and file sharing. It’s a widely supported plugin and used amongst popular Internet browsers, most notably Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

How are IP addresses leaking?

In this WebRTC security issue, a website can use a simple script to access IP address information from STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) servers. These STUN servers are actually those servers that are regularly employed by VPNs and through a protocol called NAT (Network Address Translation) it  translate a local home IP address to a new public IP address and vice-versa. So to do this at the time of connectivity the STUN server maintains a table of your VPN-based public IP and your local one. The local and public IP addresses of the user can easily be fetched from these requests with JavaScript. Wireless routers also replicate the same function in translating private IP addresses to public and back.

A researcher from San Francisco, Daniel Roesler, better illustrate just how the Web RTC vulnerability works. The STUN server sends a ping back that contains the IP address and port of the client. Roesler initially claimed that browser plugins cannot block the vulnerability, but actually, there are several easy fixes available to patch the security hole and remove this flaw.

Who is affected and how can the security hole be fixed?

Both Windows and Macintosh users are equally at risk but Default browsers Internet Explorer and Safari are actually safe with this. Firefox and Chrome users on the other hand have a problem to fix.

If you are a Mozilla Firefox user then:

Download NoScript from Firefox Add-Ons or type about:config in the address bar and setting ‘media.peerconnection.enabled‘ to ‘False.’

If you are Google Chrome users then:

Either install a plugin such as WebRTC Block or ScriptSafe., or enter chrome://flags/ into the address bar and enable ‘Disable WebRTC device enumeration.’

Alternatively, those who all are using the affected browsers can setup a wireless home router to connect to their VPN service directly. This removes the likelihood of a software-based flaw from exposing any information about the user.

If you are really caught into such situation or get infected with such program, then you need to uninstall it as soon as possible using the “Add or Remove Programs” feature in Windows. If by doing this you are still unable to fix out this problem then you can use spyhunter Removal Tool, a free software to scan and fix any unwanted or junk software.

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How to Avoid Junkware While Downloading Free Software?

As you know there are so many windows software available that comes with packaged junkware or bloatware, mainly the risk is associated with those toolbars and browser add-ons that automatically get installed when you install the software. Some of the junkware can be

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Stop Gmail from Showing You Targeted Ads

“If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.” It is great old saying in terms on marketing, this quote is well with how online services like Gmail, Outlook, Facebook, Twitter and several hundreds of thousands other products taking up consumer market. They use this services as free services but as they get paid through ads.

With the passage of the time advertising technique has become more personalized now. For example, if you buy two things from any Online retailer, and the next time when you visit the website, you will see ads that are very similar to your last purchase. It is not limited to online shopping portals. Your emails and attachments are also scanned to get idea about the products you might be interested in investing in. This is having its own advantages as seeing useful ads are undoubtedly better than seeing no sense ads.

Gmail the Popular email service, also does the same. Everyone knows about it, infact it is clearly mentioned in company’s terms and policies. This is perfectly legal, there are many people who would prefer to not be watched or tracked at all. If you are using Gmail web version then here is the simple steps for you to stop out of the targeted ads and prevent Google from scanning your emails.

How to Opt-out of targeted ads

Follow these below mentioned steps to Opt-out of targeted ads:

1. Open the Web version of Gmail then open the “Ad Settings” page. You can do this in two ways first by find any text ad banner, and then you find a notation “Why this Ad” on the right side. Second, you can only click on the Ad Preference page.

2. In the Ad Settings page, click on the “control your ad settings” link. After that scroll down to the bottom of the page where it shows message “Opt out of interest-based ads on Google.”

3: after clicking on this link, Gmail ask you for confirmation. Press on “Opt out” option. Now you are completely free from anytargeted ad banners on your emails anymore.

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Ransomware malware about, symptoms and properties

Ransomware is a type of malware (malicious software) which installs by cyber criminals on your computer so they can bolt it from a distant place. Usually it generates a pop-up window, email or webpage alert from what looks like an administrator right. It will explain that your computer has been lock because of potential unlawful actions on it, and requires payment before your access in your files and program again.

How it enters?

Usually Ransomware use to install while opening a malicious email attachment or by clicking a malicious link in the email message or instant message or the social networking site or other website. It normally broadcast like a conventional computer worm, entering a system via a downloaded file or susceptibility in a network service. Then the program will run a payload: such as one that will start to encrypt private files on the hard drive.  

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