Talos intelligence has revealed 17 vulnerable points in a Moxa industrial router. The company has now rolled out a patch addressing the issue. The affected router is the industrial EDR-810. It is marketed as a multiport secure router and offers services such as a firewall, virtual private network support (VPN), …
Read More »Free VPN Might Mine for Cypto, Kaspersky Warns
Top security software company warns users to be wary of services offering free VPN, as there is a high risk that they include cryptocurrency mining scripts. Kaspersky Lab has unveiled that such services often tend to utilize the users’ device to for cryptocurrency mining. Due to the recent boom and …
Read More »Facebook Faces the Courts
Most people don’t realize that Facebook is selling your information to advertisers without your consent, by monetizing your “shares” and “likes”, according to the Belgian Privacy Commission (BPC). Belgian Courts ruled against Facebook declaring its activities like canvas fingerprinting unlawful and fining them more than the US $ 25 Million PLUS …
Read More »Be Careful before Buying VPN
VPNs are quite popular these days. What was once a technology that allowed corporate employees to securely connect to the workplace is now a solution that more and more people around the world are adopting. VPNs hide you from all prying eyes by encrypting your network and hide your true …
Read More »Freedom of Expression at Risk with New Russian Law on VPNs
According to the Russian government, the law is necessary in order to reduce the number of extremist groups, however, Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers allege this is but an effort to censor free of speech and reduce online privacy. The systematic policy will come into force on the 1st of …
Read More »Google Yet to Fix a VPN-Inhibiting Bug in Nougat Reported back in 2015
It appears that Google is yet to fix a bug that prevents users of Android devices from connecting to their VPN services using the L2TP/IPSec protocol. A spot check indicates that a good number of individuals who use Android devices are still experiencing the problem that was first reported back …
Read More »The new cyber security law which China is adopting faves some censorship and espionage fears
On Monday 07 November, China adopted some new cyber security laws which it days would go a long way in tackling the growing threats at the moment of hacking attempts and cyber terrorism, but the new law has raised some red flags with the foreign business and rights groups. The …
Read More »EU Data Protection Chief Backs Encryption
EU’s Data Protection Supervisor opines that encryption of the communications of EU citizens should be backed on all media and any attempts to reverse engineer or decrypt them should be completely prohibited. This was the conclusion reached regarding EU’s ePrivacy Directive. The European Union’s Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) came to …
Read More »Moxa Industrial Secure Routers Not as Secure Researcher Say
Moxa, an industry network, computing and automation solutions provider is updating one of its secure industrial routers addressing many if the high severity flaws that can be executed via Denial of service attacks, privilege elevations and also arbitrary code execution. The Moxa router EDR-G903 series is high performance. It is …
Read More »Government should recruit “bored” hackers, Senator urges
The government is being encouraged to recruit “bored” hackers whom would help serve as cyber commandos and help in manning and protecting government agencies websites, protecting the country from the real cyber criminals. Pro Tempore Senate President, Ralph Recto said the statement after the arrest of the 23- year old …
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