Cyber Threat Intelligence & Cyber Security Alerts Pakistan

February 26, 2017

Cloudbleed – Cloudflare leaks sensitive data, many major websites affected

The bug, which was discovered on February 17 according to Project Zero's Tavis Ormandy and is now fixed, has caused the most damage between February 13 and February 18, according to Cloudflare, when about one in every 3,300,000 HTTP requests caused data to leak.

February 22, 2017

‘Op Radd-ul-Fasaad’ (رَدُّالفَسَاد) meaning

Operation aims at indiscriminately eliminating residual / latent threat of terrorism, consolidating gains of operations made thus far and further ensuring security of the borders.

February 21, 2017

Ransomware Growth In Pakistan Fueled By Indian Cybercriminals

Some of these groups are making tens of thousands of Indian Rupees a day from their extortion campaigns. Those participating in the ecosystem appear to be doing so with impunity and with little fear of being caught.

February 21, 2017

How easy it is for criminals to exploit your organisation using ransomware ?

How easy would it be for criminals to exploit your organisation using ransomware: what’s ahead in 2017? If 2016 saw a number of seismic changes on the political front, the cyber security arena has continued […]

February 20, 2017

Duqu Malware – Analysis

Duqu Malware – Analysis Duqu 2.0 is a really impressive piece of malware, related to Stuxnet and probably written by the NSA. One of its security features is that it stays resident in its […]

February 20, 2017

US bank account holders more likely to switch after fraud

The study, Security, Fraudulent Transactions and Customer Loyalty: A Field Study was put together by a team led by Professor Rahul Telang and analysed data from 500,000 anonymised financial services users over five years. The researchers observed actual user behaviour rather than quizzing them about their intentions.

February 18, 2017

Surfsafe® Pakistan – Website to Report Extremist Online-Content

Surfsafe® is an online reporting web portal for Pakistanis to report extremist and blasphemous online-content freely, securely and anonymously. Surfsafe® vision is to make internet and cyber space safe from extremism.

February 18, 2017

Zuckerberg publishes a 6,000-word world-saving manifesto

I have long expected more organizations and startups to build health and safety tools using technology, and I have been surprised by how little of what must be built has even been attempted. There is a real opportunity to build global safety infrastructure, and I have directed Facebook to invest more and more resources into serving this need.

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