The European Union has flexed its muscles again to combat anti-competitive behavior. This time around, it is Google that is in the receiving end of the order. The search giant…
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Android Security
Antimalware Apps Recently, Google went out of their way to clean-up Google Play Store from apps pretending to be antimalware apps, but really just consuming resources of the Android device….
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Right after Windows, antimalware vendors have set their sights on Android as their next “platform” to protect (or at the very least claiming to protect). As Windows is an undisputed…
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In a previous article we wrote here in Hackercombat.com, we have emphasized the need to change user’s perception regarding smartphones. It is not just a phone, but rather the ‘personal…
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Google Android is a widely used operating system for mobile devices, in fact, it has even surpassed Microsoft Windows as the most used operating system across all computing devices. What…
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GDPR
Google has been slapped by a 50-million Euro fine by CNIL (Commission Nationale de L’informatique et des Libertés), France’s Data Regulation Agency due to GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) violation….
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2018 can be summarized as the year when strict implementation of customer data protection policies was felt by the public, regardless of where they are located in the world. This…
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Canada has apparently imitated European Union’s GDPR, that is the latest news from the country’s Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC). Under the new policy, starting November 2018, all…
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The fallout against Facebook has started, caused by the user data exposure breach due to its Cambridge-Analytica fiasco, starting with the UK’s ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office). ICO has slapped the…
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DDoS
Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks are the antecedent to DDoS attacks. Earlier, DoS attacks were the main source to disrupt computer systems on a network. It originates from a single machine and…
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Facebook, which has suffered the biggest ever outage in its history, is struggling to deal with it. The partial outage that affected some users of Facebook and other platforms owned…
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When Did UPnP and SSDP Became Mainstream? Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) was considered revolutionary when it was introduced to Windows Millennium Edition nineteen years ago, in 2000. It was…
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Six years jail time, that may become the penalty awaiting the 6 young hackers, two who were allegedly responsible for DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against Ukraine government and…
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We could define DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks as the exclusive appropriation of a resource or service with the intention of avoiding any third party access. Also included in…
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Meanwhile, here is the best alternative to access the best Torrents that is a well-known and widely used and accessed by more than millions of visitors daily across the world….
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It’s worth it, cloud computing includes benefits and gives you the flexibility of connecting to your business from anywhere, any time. Increase operation efficiency and reduce IT spending. Read here…
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IoT success. The companies that succeed in transforming their operations and business models through IoT are those that will have weighed all the considerations, planned thoroughly, and implemented carefully. Related…
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Discussing basic data loss prevention steps. Data loss prevention can be done by doing certain basic things like installing a firewall and anti-virus software, ensuring proper backup of files and…
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We are in an age where millennials do outsmart adults when it comes to utilizing technology. More and more scenes we often see where young people teaching their baby boomer…
Read MoreThe European Union has flexed its muscles again to combat anti-competitive behavior. This time around, it is Google that is in the receiving end of the order. The search giant…
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As we can remember, Google uses its strong influence in the market in order to get ahead of their competition in the advert market, something that enters the territory of…
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Phishers for decades have honed their skills of persuasion, that is why the art of fooling people through an Internet-messaging method is a huge business by cybercriminals. There is money…
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Ransomware attacks are by nature loud, they immediately inform the user of the device that their files are encrypted, and they need to “pay” the ransom in order for their…
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The Cybercrime Definition Cybercrime can be defined as any criminal activity involving any networked device (computer, smartphone etc) or a network itself. In cybercrime, a computing device is either the…
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Facebook had for years stored hundreds of millions of user passwords in plain text, according to a recent report. Brian Krebs has, through his website KrebsOnSecurity, made this rather startling…
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Believe it or not, in the early days of the Internet, all the domain names (nodes) it had been listed in just one file, the host file. Today, the host…
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Obsession really goes a long way for people to get out of their way to cause trouble for others. As PewDiePie emerges as a Youtube sensation, his fanbase grew to…
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A vulnerability that was detected in the web version of Google Photos could be used by hackers to retrieve image metadata. ZDNet reports, “Google has patched a bug in its…
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