South Korean web hosting provider has agreed to pay $1 million in bitcoins to hackers after a Linux ransomware infected its 153 servers, encrypting 3,400 business websites and their data, hosted on them. According to a blog post published by NAYANA, the web hosting company, this unfortunate event happened on 10th June when ransomware malware hit its hosting servers and attacker ...

Japanese authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy in Osaka, a prefecture and large port city, for allegedly creating and distributing a ransomware malware.This is the first such arrest in Japan which involves a Ransomware-related crime.Ransomware is a piece of malware that encrypts files on a victim’s computer and makes them inaccessible until the victim pays a ransom, usually in Bitcoins, ...

India’s  largest-restaurant guide Zomato appears to have suffered a major security breach. According to a report in security blog HackRead, “A vendor going by the online handle of ‘nclay’ is claiming to have hacked Zomato and selling the data of its 17 million registered users on a popular Dark Web marketplace.” The company too has admitted the major security lapse in ...

A massive cyber-attack using tools believed to have been stolen from the US National Security Agency (NSA) has struck organisations around the world.Cyber-security firm Avast said it had seen 75,000 cases of the ransomware – known as WannaCry and variants of that name – around the world.There are reports of infections in 99 countries, including Russia and China.Among the worst ...

WordPress, the most popular CMS in the world, is vulnerable to a logical vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to reset targeted users’ password under certain circumstances.The vulnerability (CVE-2017-8295) becomes even more dangerous after knowing that it affects all versions of WordPress — including the latest 4.7.4 version.The WordPress flaw was discovered by Polish security researcher Dawid Golunski of ...

Bangalore: US based Palo Alto Networks, a network and enterprise security provider is growing faster with an expanding base of customers in the Indian market, according to company’s top executive. “We have around 500 customers in India in past 2 years, which are across all verticals and market segments,” said Anil Bhasin, Palo Alto Networks’ Managing Director – India & ...

New Delhi: A Pro-Pakistan group hacked the official websites of four prominent Indian institutes—Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), IIT Varanasi, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and Delhi University (DU)— and some lesser known institutions several times on Tuesday.While all four educational institutes restored their websites initially, the hackers brought then down again and posted the pro-Pakistan, anti-India messages on ...

Allied Telesis has launch its Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs), a new range of sophisticated security appliances for protecting enterprise and government organisations, remote offices, and embedded applications.”The new range of firewalls allows an enterprise to deploy next-generation security measures at the branch office, rather than relying on the firewall at the headquarters to protect everyone,” commented Graham Walker, Product Manager at ...

Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments. With FortiOS 5.6, the company’s Fortinet Security Fabric gives a view of customers’ public and private clouds – including Amazon Web Services and Azure – as well as ...

One of the most concerning revelations arising from the recent WikiLeaks publication is the possibility that government organizations can compromise WhatsApp, Telegram and other end-to-end encrypted chat applications. While this has yet to be proven, many end-users are concerned as WhatsApp and Telegram use end-to-end encryption to guarantee user privacy. This encryption is designed to ensure that only the people ...