This category covers the News section of HowToRemove.Guide. We primarily focus on news in the security and anti-malware industry, but not limited to them, as we have recently engaged in broader interests related to browsers, operating systems and their relationship to hardware.
User experience has become a driving factor on the internet, merging areas which were once clearly separated. A prime subject in this is the intersection between the user privacy we all covet and how new features introduced to safeguard that privacy can be exploited by malware creators.
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In a technological world of rapid change, we at HowToRemove.Guide need to be fully aware of how that world changes to ensure we can be at the driving edge of knowledge on what malware creators can use against every day users.
And the first step to that is to be constantly informed of all coming changes.
The Lucifer malware A new powerful DDoS and cryptojacking malware named Lucifer exploits numerous vulnerabilities to infect Windows computers. This malware is part of an ongoing campaign against Windows hosts. In its latest wave of attacks, Lucifer...
Docker Hub Distributes Images with Malware With Docker’s increasing popularity as a service for application packaging and deployment, malicious actors are seeking for opportunities to target exposed API endpoints and create malware-infected images...
Critical bugs detected in GeoVision’s Fingerprint and Card Scanners. The Taiwanese supplier of IP cameras and video surveillance systems, GeoVision, has recently fixed three of its four main faults related to its card and fingerprint scanners. The...
PlayStation Bug Bounty Program Sony encourages everyone to find glitches on the PlayStation platform for cash bonuses of up to $50,000. The company has actually been running a bug bounty program operated privately by selected researchers from some...
New Privacy Features added to iOS 14 and Mac OS Big Sur On Monday, during its virtual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2020, Apple announced the latest versions of its operating systems – iOS 14 for iPhones, iPadOS 14 for iPads, watchOS 7 for...
The WastedLocker Ransomware One of the larger and better known cybercrime organizations Evil Corp has resurfaced and launched a new malware campaign targeting businesses and enterprises. Specifically, the group has released a new ransomware variant...
Apple ARM chip Apple has revealed that from late 2020, in the next two years, it will gradually transition from Intel processors to its own ARM-based chips on its Macs. This is the biggest Mac shakeup in the last 15 years and it was made public at...
269 GB of data leaked from Police Departments and Fusion centers A massive 269 GB of data, stolen from over 200 US police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement agencies, has been publicly published by a group of hacktivists and...
A post published by Boomerang unveils that the leader of Apple’s Technology Development Group, Mike Rockwell, and his team is working on a headset of AR/VR that could be announced in 2021. Though the timing isn’t certain and plans may change, the...
Google Chrome Users suffer from huge Malware Campaign Google Chrome users were hit by an extensive campaign of malware attacks just now. Over a whopping 2 billion users were affected and experts have already dubbed this the worst campaign of its...
