The automation company, Schneider Electric, reveals a weakness in its engineering system. This weakness unintentionally enables cyber criminals to remotely interfere with the company’s operations. Programmable logic controllers or PLCs are special computers or machines that have the ability to control and monitor the mechanical…
It only takes three minutes to break into a computer network. This isn’t an exaggeration but a warning from many Internet researchers about the vulnerability of network-connected devices. Any device which is connected to the Internet makes it easier for cyber crooks to sneak into…
An election malware has been discovered by a certain malware detection team just recently. This software menace invades your computer system by shutting down all your processes and puts a seemingly scary message on your screen. The annoying popup message would ask you to pay…
The European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, had authorized to conduct on study the youth behavior on the Internet. The researched pointed out the there is a stunning similarity in the way youngsters grow up to become hackers to drug and alcohol addiction. Because there…
Scientists have come up with a new jailbreak method that would give them unrestrained access to several Android phones. It takes advantage of the computer bug which helps an organization’s competitor or adversary to juggle data which are stored in integrated circuits. Rowhammer is…
National Security and privacy are two issues that have stirred up a huge debate in the United States. Recently, reports were made against Yahoo saying that Yahoo had an operation to scan emails for its customers for information. This operation was authorized by the government….