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Google personalizes search results in Incognito, DuckDuckGo study finds

Fazeel Ashraf
Posted on December 5, 2018

Research by DuckDuckGo suggests Google produces personalized results every chance it gets, even in Incognito mode. This means that users cannot get a moment of respite from online advertisements. Since…

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Quora’s security breach affects a 100 million users

Areen Zahra
Posted on December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Quora, the leading Question and Answer site released a blog post revealing the massive security breach that affected 100 million users. Quora’s user data was compromised as a result of an…

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Marriott Data Breach; One of the largest customer data breaches in history

Noor Imtiaz
Posted on December 3, 2018

Official reports claimed that the incident compromised information of around 500 million Starwood customers. However, this is merely the most recent in a string of data breaches happening at alarming…

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Hackers are using leaked NSA tools to hijack computers

Muhammad Abdullah
Posted on November 29, 2018

Remember National Security Agency’s (NSA) most potent and capable hacking tools were leaked on the internet a year ago? Well, hackers are still using these tools to hijack unpatched computers…

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Amazon admits leaking customers’ emails in ‘technical error’

Fazeel Ashraf
Posted on November 22, 2018

E-commerce behemoth Amazon admits to accidentally leaking an unknown number of customer email addresses after a “technical error” on its website. The company sent an email on Tuesday warning its…

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Google Play Store accidentally sends malware to users’ phones

Fazeel Ashraf
Posted on November 21, 2018

More than half a million users accidentally downloaded malware on to their devices when they tried and downloaded racing games, from the Google Play Store. There were thirteen apps that…

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Make-A-Wish website hit with the cryptojacking plight

Amnah Fawad
Posted on November 20, 2018

Looks like the crypto criminals have not had enough. The non-profit organization, Make-A-Wish, that makes critically ill children’s wishes come true, joins the league of websites infected by bitcoin scams. Could…

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Apple users can now exercise their user data right

Amnah Fawad
Posted on November 19, 2018

Apple, keeping up its tradition of not disappointing us when it comes to privacy, now lets you see as well as download the data the company has about you. The…

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VisionDirect has its customers’ information leaked

Fazeel Ashraf
Posted on November 18, 2018

Vision Direct, the company which considers itself the number one destination for contact lenses in the UK has been involved in a massive credit card scam. The European online contact…

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Black Friday shoppers beware; Fake apps and websites Intel received

Amnah Fawad
Posted on November 16, 2018

With multiple account breaches in the past couple of weeks, the cybercriminals are now heading towards one of the biggest sales on the year. People eagerly wait for the Black…

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iPhone X is reportedly vulnerable to hacks!

Areen Zahra
Posted on November 15, 2018

Just as Masas found a vulnerability in Facebook and got rewarded, the Fluoroacetate duo, Richard Zhu and Amat Cama earned $50,000 for finding a hack on iPhone X! The Fluoroacetate…

russian hackers using cryptocurrency malware

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Russian crypto-jacking malware can extract cryptocurrencies

Noor Imtiaz
Posted on November 14, 2018

A discovery by McAfee labs has confirmed that a new crypto-jacking malware is out in the open. This new virus is capable of using the computer to mine cryptocurrency like…

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Google G Suite Twitter account got hacked

Fazeel Ashraf
Posted on November 14, 2018
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It seems like there is no stopping to Bitcoin scams. These scams are occurring almost every day, and things have really gotten out of hand. The latest victim to such…