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Best Cyber Security Certifications 2019

Today, Cyber security is one of the fastest growing industry. The increasing numbers of the  data breaches  and  cyber attacks  have likewise increased the need for cyber security professionals to take defensive measures against these threats. Organizations are spending more and more on securing their data and hiring cyber security experts. They are also promoting the need to procure greater cyber security specialists to ensure their organization. Cyber security Ventures predicts that there will be 3.5 million unfilled cyber security occupations by 2021. Each IT position is likewise a cyber security position now. Each IT laborer, each innovation specialist, should be included with securing applications, data, and frameworks. With this growing demand for cyber security pros, the competition to get the job and good pay have become even more challenging. Therefore, earning a certification in this field is an excellent way to boost your career potentials. Wit...

How to become a better writer with Wordeep using artificial intelligence

Wordeep uses Artificial Intelligence to improve what you write. Writing may seem to be an easy task to overcome, but it is definitely not for the faint-hearted. No one can even master writing overnight, and it may take someone years to master it. You also have to consider the fact that writers tend to have a hard time understanding what to do next. They either have trouble creating a writing piece or they just have no idea where to go. Interestingly, technology has made it easier for writers like you to steer clear from the common mistakes in this field. Ever tried submitting a piece only to find out that you have a few mistakes? Or perhaps you sent an email to a client and wondered why he did not reply? Well, it turns out; you got a good number of spelling errors. This is exactly where  Wordeep comes into play . It is your go-to tool that helps you correct your grammar and spelling mistakes. Of course, this is just part of a bigger plan of improving your overall writing...

Proton Mail denies that it offers real-time surveillance assistance

A Swiss lawyer has accused Proton Mail that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities. ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end  encrypted email service  from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer  Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surveillance. The head of the Cyber crime Competence Center, Zurich, and public prosecutor Stephen Walder stated that the company doesn’t offer voluntary real-time surveillance but is obliged to help authorities in certain situations. However, Mr. Steiger publicly posted about Proton Mail’s offer stating that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities. For your information, Zurich, Switzerland-based lawyer attended a presentation earlier in May where he mentioned ProtonMail, and later Mr. Steiger tweeted from his Twitter account that he learned at the event that the encryp...

Teen hacked Apple twice hoping for a job

He hacked his way into the tech giant’s mainframe by creating false credentials. Now that is what we call a very unorthodox approach, an out of the box invocation to realize what you are desperately after. An Australian teenager, an Apple fanboy, longing for a job in Apple evinced an unusual way of forwarding his CV to the company.  What happened is, the teen literally hacked Apple, bypassing all its state of the art security protocols and then turned himself in to make a bold statement regarding his top-notch skills. No Job CV or application for the internship, the teen literally believed in the saying “Actions speak louder than words”, or more peculiarly, “Skill speaks louder than a job application." The teenager took the lead from a European counterpart who successfully attempted a similar heist to get a job. The teen cannot be identified at this moment due to legal constraints but has been found guilty of hacking not once but twice into Apple’s infrastructure in 20...

Online graphic-design tool Canva hacked; 139 million accounts stolen

Canva has contacted the FBI to investigate the data breach . Canva, an online graphic-design tool website operated from Australia has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of over 139 million registered users has been stolen – The breach took place on Friday, May 24. The stolen data includes usernames, real names, email addresses, city, and country information, etc. Canva, on the other hand, has acknowledged the breach and notified users in an email claiming that their payment card and other financial data is safe. The company further maintains that the stolen passwords are in an encrypted format and “unreadable by external parties.” “We’re aware that a number of our community’s usernames and email addresses have been accessed. The hackers also obtained passwords in their encrypted form (for technical people – all passwords were salted and hashed with bcrypt). This means that our user passwords remain unreadable by external parties.,” Canva said in an emai...

News aggregator app Flipboard hacked; user data stolen

Hackers managed to breach Flipboard’s security for sensitive database multiple times putting millions of users at risk. Just yesterday, it was reported that the online graphic-design tool website  Canva had suffered a massive data breach  in which a hacker stole over 139 million accounts of registered users. Now, t he highly popular social sharing and news aggregation app Flipboard has been hacked not once but twice in a limited timeframe, as per the security notice published by the company. According to Flipboard, its databases were accessed between 2 June, 2018 and 23 March, 2019 and 21 April 2019 and 22 April, 2019 during which the hacker managed to obtain copies of databases containing Flipboard’s user information. Flipboard has a huge following with more than  150 million people  accessing it every month. The company claims that the hackers downloaded the databases, which contained not only usernames and salted hash (cryptologically protected ...

What to do if your email is found on the Dark Web

If your email is on the dark web it is quite possible that its password is leaked as well either in plain text or encrypted with some hash format. The dark web is 99% of the Internet we can’t access from the browsers we’ve got. Regularly used by hackers and black hats, any information available out there is not safe. And if you are unfortunate enough to have your email exposed on the dark web, you need to be a little concerned. Seriously? Yes, if any of your information, whether public or private, is listed on the   dark web , it can damage your online privacy. Emails are a major part of our online life as it is almost always used as a gateway to access several web services. These web services can include social media profiles to online bank accounts. Therefore, in the event you find your email address on the dark web, here’s what you need to do: Step #1. Relax, Email is none of a SECRET! Email IDs are hardly secret, you give it to any loyalty program you sig...

World’s most dangerous laptop has been sold for $1.3 million

The laptop is a Samsung model now known as ‘Persistence of Chaos’ due to dangerous malware infection. A few days ago   it was reported that   a laptop (2008 Samsung 10.2-inch – NC10-14GB netbook) infected with some of the more dangerous malware was up for sale and the highest bid received at that time was $1.1 million. Now, it is being reported that the laptop has been sold for $1.35 million – It is yet unclear who bought the laptop. The auction was organized by  Guo O Dong , a Chinese artist along with Deep Instinct, a cyber-security firm in New York. Dubbed ‘Persistence of Chaos’ by organizers; the laptop is infected with six of the most dangerous malware strains known for creating havoc around the world.  According to Dong, the list of malware includes: SoBig email virus ILoveYou malware MyDoom email worm DarkTequila keylogger BlackEnergy 2 malware WannaCry ransomware It is worth mentioning that the collective damages of these viral strains...