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Here in thethreatreport.com, we always emphasize to our readers to always check the address bar of your browser for the “closed padlock” icon before logging-in to your web service accounts, whatever it maybe. The encryption protocol used is practically speaking still unbreakable even with today’s binary supercomputers. However, the age-old yet pretty effective security advice

Strong territorial defense alone is not enough to combat today’s risks, as the Internet created another space for people to operate and to move beyond the physical world. Individuals, private companies and the public sector need to maintain a defensive posture when it comes to watching over their network boundaries. Companies, governments and everyone using

At the wake of the Huawei ban, which places the second largest smartphone manufacturer with a questionable future, Apple, the former second largest smartphone manufacturer is set to host its World Wide Developer Conference 2019. Through the WWDC, Apple provides the overall direction of their products and services, their relationship with the development community and

The zombie apocalypse theme is a bread-and-butter theme in many sci-fi films and even games. To be overrun by uncontrolled hordes of zombies from all directions, with no place to hide or protect oneself is a very fearful situation. The good thing is that zombies are fiction, isn’t it? Partly incorrect when we talk about

Redmond has once again blessed (or cursed) the Windows user population with the bi-yearly feature update to Windows 10, 1903. Fresh from the not so good experience of Windows Update, thanks to 1809 that immediately preceded it, build 1903 promises a smooth operating system with a new lick of paint. We have warned our readers

Tavis Ormandy, a security researcher for Google’s Project Zero division, announced the discovery of a code bug in Notepad, Microsoft’s popular text editor. The problem was privately conveyed to Microsoft, and it was made public after 90 days. No additional information is currently available, because Microsoft has not solved the problem yet. According to sources

We may be witnessing a massive change in the enterprise IT space, fueled by the evolution of personal computing. The days of companies spending a lot of its funding in purchasing physical servers, maintenance, energy and the labor cost of running it 24/7 with regular hardware refresh cycle are fast becoming outdated. Yes, there is

Web browsers are our window to the world, the Internet where all the current cybersecurity risks come from. Hence, all browser vendors are hard at work with fine-tuning their products in order to win the trust of users. Mozilla is trying to recover from their recent Add-on fiasco with the fixed Firefox 66.0.4, and hot

Unless you are living under-the-rock for the past week or two, nobody in the tech world who does not know about the cpu.fail bug, the microprocessor flaws that were revealed by the same group of researchers who discovered last year’s Spectre and Meltdown exploits. The operating system is the interface that serves as the middleman

The supply chain attack that is becoming a problem today refers mainly to the method of embedding malware and backdoor in the product itself, update programs, patch modules, etc., in light of the vulnerability of the software product supply chain. A legitimate software developer will not deliberately insert those features to the products they offer