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Open-source apps have long been hailed for being more secure than proprietary software, for the reason that the availability of the source code means the higher chances that a bug can be seen easier. But this is not consistent, there are times the feature that has a bug for years is not a commonly used

The system admins’ favorite antivirus program Malwarebytes has released the State of Malware Report covering the first quarter of 2019, highlighting the state of malware globally. The highlight of the report is the visible decreasing frequency of global ransomware infections, from 12 million incidents recorded in the first quarter of 2018 to just 4 million

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

Hackers have abused LinkedIn messaging to target US companies with the More_eggs backdoor. Employees of US companies that use shopping portals and similar payment systems have been made the prime targets of a series of malware campaigns, in which hackers push the More_eggs backdoor via fake job offers being sent via LinkedIn. About More_eggs More_eggs,

Development Bank of Singapore and the Singapore Police have issued a warning to the public that a specifically crafted phishing SMS message are spreading, providing users a link that will steal their username and passwords for their DBS online account. Sample messages below: DBS instructed their customers never fall for such scams, especially those messages