Author: Pratyush Malviya

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Coordinated attack on Reddit, Hackers Hijack Mod Account

A coordinated hack attack happened on Reddit a few days ago. The hackers have reportedly posted messages or changed subreddit design in support of President Donald Trump.  The attack seemed to target high-profile subreddits just like the twitter hack that happened last month when twitter accounts of high-profile personalities were hacked, and tweets were made from the…
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AI the Future of Cybersecurity: Managing Threats and Exclusive Risk Management

Artificial intelligence is a field of science that is interested in finding solutions to complex problems through computing algorithms based on human decision mechanisms. The purpose of using AI is to solve the issues and offer solutions in a short period of time using algorithms that could have been used by any human but would…
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$80 Million Penalty on Capital One for July Data Breach

Capital One Financial Corporation is an American bank specializing in credit cards, auto loans, banking and savings accounts. It has been charged with $80 million owing to a data breach that happened in July last year. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) informed about the fine in a Press Release. The OCC has…
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Researcher Demonstrate Hacking of 3D Printer by Triggering a Fire

A senior security consultant at Coalfire, Dan McInerney, published a three-part blog where he talks about the threats that modern-day IoT devices pose through an experiment. The experiment exposes the possibility of physical harm that the exploitation of these devices can cause even remotely. Such devices contain heating elements that can be weaponized by the attackers for…
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$10 Million Reward by RJF to Catch Cyber Intruders

The United States of America will be having its presidential elections in November 2020. This is a crucial period when the intruders will be trying to compromise the critical information related to the campaigns for undermining the election process.  During the 2016 Presidential elections, Russian hackers had leaked Hillary Clinton’s emails and documents to turn…
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New Vulnerability ‘Boothole’ Threatens Billions of Linux, Windows Devices

A new vulnerability, named BootHole, has been discovered recently by two Eclypsium researchers, Mickey Shkatov and Jesse Michael, in the GRUB2 bootloader. Most Linux systems utilize GRUB2. It also supports other operating systems such as kernel and hypervisor. According to the release, almost all signed versions of GRUB2 are vulnerable, even if they have enabled…
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The timeless timing attack- a more efficient way of remote timing attacks.

Recently, a white paper has been released by researchers at the Center for Cyber Security, New York University, Abu Dhabi, which has introduced a new type of attack. The attack is claimed to be a more efficient version of the remote, timeless attack and is named as Timeless Timing attack. Conventionally in a remote timing…
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17 Year Old Teenager and Two Others Are Arrested for the Biggest Twitter Attack

A 17-year-old teen and two other 19 and 22-year-old individuals are arrested who were behind the biggest twitter attack that happened on 15th July 2020. It is being considered as the most disastrous cyber attack in the history of social media.