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I am Lavanya Rao K, a Btech undergraduate at MIT, Manipal. I am an ambivert by nature and a big time caninophile.So don't refrain yourself from spamming me with dog pictures. I'm highly inclined to singing and anything related to music, so feel free to recommend songs and new artists. I am always open to learning new skills and my hobbies include singing and reading. Well, I'm not good at introductions, but I could interest you with a sarcastic comment!
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BREACHES
LinkedIn suffers data breach of 700 Million users
3 years ago
LinkedIn experienced another massive data breach this year that exposed data of over 700 million users, thus compromising the data of more than 92 percent of its users. The new dataset obtained by an unknown hacker is said to consist of personal details of LinkedIn users, including phone numbers, physical... Read more
LinkedIn experienced another massive data breach this year that exposed data of over 700 million... Read more
POLICIES AND REGULATIONS
Crypto Market Reclaims Market Cap Of $2 Trillion
3 years ago
With the development of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency has made the leap from academic concepts to virtual reality. Recent news states that Bitcoin has topped $48,152 over the weekend, its highest level since May 2021. Bitcoin’s rise helped push the value of the entire cryptocurrency market above $2 trillion on Saturday, the... Read more
With the development of Bitcoin, cryptocurrency has made the leap from academic concepts to virtual... Read more
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
US cyber security firm says it can protect phones against Pegasus
3 years ago
Zimperium, a US-based technology firm that specializes in mobile phone security, claims that it can protect organizations and individuals from zero-day attacks often used by Pegasus or similar spyware programs and has recently secured a contract with the United States Department of Defence (DOD) to deliver a Mobile Endpoint Protection... Read more
Zimperium, a US-based technology firm that specializes in mobile phone security, claims that it can... Read more
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
WhatsApp to Finally Let Users Encrypt Their Chat Backups in the Cloud
3 years ago
WhatsApp recently announced that it would be bringing end-to end encrypted chat backups to the cloud for Android and iOS users, allowing users to save information including chat messages and photographs in a cryptographically safe manner on Apple iCloud or Google Drive. This feature is expected to go live in... Read more
WhatsApp recently announced that it would be bringing end-to end encrypted chat backups to the... Read more
BREACHES
Amazon-owned Twitch breached by hackers
3 years ago
Twitch, Amazon's massively popular video-game streaming service, has been hacked resulting in a major data leak. The data appeared to include Twitch's internal code and documents, as well as the payments made to thousands of top streamers. An anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board released a 125GB torrent earlier... Read more
Twitch, Amazon's massively popular video-game streaming service, has been hacked resulting in a major data... Read more
VULNERABILITIES
Squirrel Engine Bug lets attackers hack games and cloud services
3 years ago
Squirrel is an open-source, object-oriented programming language used for scripting video games and in IoT devices and distributed transaction processing platforms such as Enduro/X. Researchers have disclosed an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the Squirrel programming language that attackers can abuse to break out of the sandbox restrictions and execute... Read more
Squirrel is an open-source, object-oriented programming language used for scripting video games and in... Read more
VULNERABILITIES
New Apache Log4j Update Released to Patch Newly Discovered Vulnerability
3 years ago
Log4j is a popular Java library developed by the open-source Apache Software Foundation. Developers use it to log error messages in apps and cloud services such as Minecraft, Steam, and Apple iCloud. This software is publicly accessible and collects and stores activity records on a server. This week, Apache released... Read more
Log4j is a popular Java library developed by the open-source Apache Software Foundation. Developers use... Read more
VULNERABILITIES
Microsoft fixes Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide on New Years
2 years ago
The turn of the new year triggered errors in Microsoft Exchange mail servers, causing thousands of emails around the world not to get sent and staying stuck on email transport queues causing entire servers to crash. The server administration community dubbed this bug “Y2K22” due to its similarity to the... Read more
The turn of the new year triggered errors in Microsoft Exchange mail servers, causing thousands... Read more
VULNERABILITIES
North Korean Hackers Use Windows Update Service to Infect PCs with Malware
2 years ago
TThe Lazarus Group, also known as APT38, Hidden Cobra, Whois Hacking Team, and Zinc, is a known cybercrime group with ties to the North Korean government that recently abused the Windows Update Client to distribute malware. The researchers said they were investigating a phishing campaign mimicking Lockheed Martin, American aerospace,... Read more
TThe Lazarus Group, also known as APT38, Hidden Cobra, Whois Hacking Team, and Zinc, is... Read more
VULNERABILITIES
25 Malicious JavaScript Libraries Distributed via NPM Package Repository
2 years ago
DevOps security firm JFrog informed that it found and helped remove 25 malicious JavaScript libraries from the official npm package repository. This is the second time in three months that JFrog found malicious npm packages designed to steal Discord tokens and environment variables after reporting 17 similar packages in December... Read more
DevOps security firm JFrog informed that it found and helped remove 25 malicious JavaScript libraries... Read more
