The purpose of a permission is to protect the privacy of an Android user. According to Android documentation for app developers, permissions fall into two groups – normal and dangerous. Normal permissions – Don’t pose risk to the user’s privacy and are granted automatically by […]
View moreVPN extensions aren’t as secure as users think
Most VPN browser extensions are not as private or secure as users think they are. That’s the takeaway from new research by ethical hacker File Descriptor, who claims that almost all VPN add-ons aren’t protecting computers’ privacy. A report published this week examined some of […]
View morePopular VPNs contained code execution security flaws, despite patches
Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in popular virtual private network (VPN) software, ProtonVPN and NordVPN, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code by attackers. Last week, Cisco Talos security researchers said the security flaws, CVE-2018-3952 and CVE-2018-4010, permit code execution by attackers on Microsoft […]
View moreBrit teen arrested for involvement in DDoS attack on ProtonMail
A 19-year-old member of hacking group Apophis Squad has been arrested by British cops. George Duke-Cohan from Watford, who uses the aliases ‘7R1D3N7′, ‘DoubleParalla’ and ‘optcz1′, was identified after the criminal group launched a series of DDoS attacks on Swiss-based encrypted email and VPN provider […]
View moreDDoS attacks on ProtonMail
George Duke-Cohan from Watford, who uses the aliases “7R1D3N7”, “DoubleParalla” and “optcz1”, was identified after the criminal group launched a series of DDoS attacks on Swiss-based encrypted email and VPN provider ProtonMail in June. https://www.theinquirer.net/
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