Creating a blacklist of passwords that would work
Passwords are a major headache for all of us. We are always advised to never reuse passwords, and include various combinations of lower and uppercase ...
Category Archives: Security News
Smart Devices Can Be Hijacked by Ransomware
Malware is becoming a major threat in our lives. At least once a week, there is some news article about how some kind of malware did this or that, or ...
Facebook Messenger used to spread adware
Cyber crooks are taking advantage of Facebook yet again. Recently, users started getting weird messages from their contacts on Facebook Messenger, l...
Compromised Chrome extension exposed more than a million of users to adware
On August 1st, when users updated Web Developer, an extension allowing them to use various web developer tools, advertisements started being inserted ...
Security experts need to have more empathy, Facebook’s CSO says
If you are even slightly interested in the world of cyber security, you will have heard of the yearly Black Hat conference. Those gathered watch elabo...
Facebook stops an AI experiment after two bots start speaking in their own langauge
Earlier this summer, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) started an experiment where they try to have two artificial intelligence program...