Cyber Kendra

We have earlier reported that Google is testing a new favoriting tool called Google Star, which will help users to save, share, and organize Web content. The news was earlier out due to leak of its detailing features and also about its interface. Today another Google Plus users   Florian Kiersch , have leaked the Google Stars extension for Google Chrome. Kiersch, have published the extension the Chrome Web Store before Google. You can also download the extension from Cloudup . . …

A freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging client, Skype have introduced the most awaited feature on it. During the Code Conference in California, Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, revealed an upcoming feature for Skype: live translation . This means now if two speakers of different languages were to chat with each other over Skype, their words could then be translated in real time to the other user. In the Conference, a live demonstration between an English and German speak…

Image-based social network Pinterest has launched a bug bounty program powered by the crowdsourced-driven vulnerability disclosure platform Bugcrowd. Pinterest security engineer,  Paul Moreno , have announced the program on blog post, which says-“We hope these updates will allow us to learn more from the security community and respond faster to Whitehats,”. In effort to make the social media website bug free the company has now launched an official bug bounty program , and updated i…

Today I am not believing on the thing which I got to read in the early of the morning, and may many security enthusiasts have got the same reaction. The free whole-disk encryption suite TrueCrypt, which is one of the best and mine favorite tool for encrypting disk has gave a shocking announcement on its site. The official site of TrueCrypt is redirecting the visitors to the program homepage on Sourceforge.net , which displays the following message- WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not sec…

Glen Greenwald, the journalist of The Guardian in possession of the leaked classified documents on NSA programs by Snowden, has hinted that the finishing piece of Snowden’s legacy is yet to come. There is more thing that have not been revealed. Giving the hint, Greenwald wrote- “As with a fireworks show, you want to save your best for last. The last one is the one where the sky is all covered in spectacular multicoloured hues,” With the above statement  Greenwald  means that, now he i…

Just a months back Samsung have accounted its one of the best smartphone of its Galaxy series S5. An Android based smart phone is much liked by its users and got good response within a month after launch. There are many Geek's that tweaks with the android to make it more flexible. With this some of the developers and techie guys root the Android to access some of the restricted feature on Android.  What is Android Rooting? “Rooting” your device means obtaining “superuser” rights and…

Member of Anonymous splinter group called Lulz Security, or LulzSec, " Hector Xavier Monsegur " online handle " SABU " who was arrested by FBI on 2011 on the charge of computer hacking and disputing financial data was finally released from prison. When FBI agents showed up at Monsegur's home in the summer of 2011, he immediately agreed to cooperate, giving the FBI a tutorial on the inner workings and participants of LulzSec and Anonymous. Sabu helped the government…

Antivirus making firm Avast have admitted that they had been hacked. On the blog post Avast CEO, Vince Steckler, have wrote that the Official forum of Avast which is offline at the mean time will remain offline for some more period, as it was hacked last weekend. On the blog post Avast says that, the hack only affects Avast  community-support forum. About less than 0.2% of Avast 200 million users were affected. In the breach user nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed (one-w…

Recently many of the organisation have notified and admitted that they suffered from the security breaches. One of the popular Music-streaming service Spotify is the latest company to report a security breach. On the blogs post  Oskar Stal, Spotify's CTO, said it has identified "unauthorized access to our systems and internal company data." According to Spotify, the breach affected just one user. "This did not include any password, financial or payment information. We ha…

Do you remember Ransomware malware, which was active from last year and recently we have seen that the same malware were targeting Android mobile users. These type of malware    first try to trick users into downloading it and then demanding payment to restore user control of the device. On the Apple's discussion forum many of Apple users have reported that there device have got hacked. Actually the report was that Cyber Criminals have targeted large number of Apple's icloud…

Day-by-day, threats on mobile users is rapidly increasing, and its mainly targeting Android mobile phones. Android is one of the most popular mobile OS owned by Google Inc. Recently we have reported that there are many of the fake and malicious app presents on the apps store . Users download these apps without having the prior information about it. Once again another serious security bug have been disclosed by a researcher in Android OS. Former Google employee, Szymon Sidor has f…

The Title reads something epic and Sci-Fi thing, that mainly shown in the Sc-Fi moviews. But Its the true thing that is going to come. Hackers have demonstrated everything that they have hacked, as like Car, Refrigerator, Airplane etc.. And now they have also strike there hands on the Cable TV's network. A well known Indian Security Researcher ‘ Rahul Sasi ’ and a founder of popular hacking forum " Garage4Hackers " have demonstrated how he had managed to hack or interrupt  …

After the multiple vulnerabilities reported on the eBay site, now security researchers are expanding their research and continuing their hunting. Last month many researchers have reported the  vulnerability of the Yahoo team in respect of its bounty program . Recently Egyptian security researcher 'Ahmed Aboul-Ela' has reported a vulnerability to Yahoo that allows him to delete any comment from 90 percent of Yahoo services which includes Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo TV, Yahoo…

Till now may eBay have not overcome with the latest cyber attacks that it suffered last two days before and now another bad day arrives for eBay Inc. Yesterday eBay have admitted that the breach of its one database makes the compromised of the 145 million users details and urged its users to change the password. Changing Password is Enough ?? As eBay notified its users to change their password but what makes if change of password, and making a complex (10-15 character long) password …

A new leaked images by the Chinese leaker reveals some of the points directing to the next version of Microsoft Windows 9. As Microsoft is already working on the update of its windows phone operating system version 8.1, a new version of OS is expected to come by 2015. According to a leaked official document posted by Myce , Microsoft is planning preview releases for both Windows 9 and Windows Phone 9 in Q2 or Q3 of 2015. If the document is to believed, the final release of Windows Phon…

Apple cloud service "iCloud" is probably one of the secure cloud service owned by the Apple Inc. It the same cloud storage and cloud computing service provided by the Apple Inc. to its users since October 2011 with more than 320 million users across the world. Couple of the hackers go by the name AquaXetine and Moroccan hacker with the name Merruktechnolog, have claimed to hack the Apple iCloud system. Hackers have used the Man-in-Middle attack for the hack of the Apple locked de…

All the ATM's that will be installed from Juli 2014 onward will have a talking machine, ordered by  Reserve Bank of India (RBI). On the note given by RBI to all the commercial banks stats that from July 2014 onwards all banks would provide audible instructions and Braille keypads into ATM's to its customers. The RBI's directive came on its prior advice to banks in 2009 to make bank branches and ATMs accessible to people with disabilities and make at least one-third of the new …

One of the India's biggest e-Commerce retailer Flipkart has acquired another online retailer Myntra. It is expected that the total deal is worth of Rs2,000 crore. While the did not disclose the deal size, sources suggest the deal could be worth about Rs 2,000 crore. Myntra is one of the leading e-retailer on fashion category, and this acquisition makes the Flipkart leading on one more selling category.  Flipkart co-founder and CEO Sachin Bansal, says- "It is a 100% acq…

Facebook has become a part of our daily life. If we have got internet connection on our mobile device we won't forget to open Facebook and check the status update. So for users, Facebook will soon introduce better features in the future. Now Facebook will soon automatically identify the TV shows you’re watching and the music you’re listening to, making it easier to join online discussions involving your latest bit of entertainment. Other than Facebook , Yahoo and Tumbler have…

One of the biggest E-Commerce firm eBay.Inc have suffered from one of the biggest data breach on late February and early March. The confirmation of the d ata breach have been confirmed by the eBay via a post on their blog. Company have requested to all its users to  immediately change their passwords. On the blog post eBay mentioned that hackers have compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials and gained unauthorized access on to their network system . “Changing p…

Sometime while login to your Facebook account you will get the security notification about your system, that Your system may be infected with one of the virus or malware. So for this now Facebook will help you to clean your system via providing a anti-malware application download link. On Tuesday Facebook have announced that it had added a free download of Anti-malware software to its abuse detection and prevention systems for users with infected devices. On the notes Facebook have r…

Earlier today the online hacktivist group Anonymous have run a campaign of massive Denial-of-service attack (DDOS) on the US Military server and put all the US military website offline. The operation was conducted with the name as Operation Payback. On this operation about 19 high profiled sites of US defense belongs to US Army, US Navy, US Marine, and US air force have been taken offline for several hours. After the DDOS some of the sites we found to be working but at the mean time …

Today Google have rolled out a major update for its Gmail for Android app, which includes several new and awesome feature. It have also made an improvement on the its UI. One of the new features that introduce is file attachment, as now users can  save their mail  attached files directly to the Google Drive. This new features will help the users to save space on their mobile device especially for the larger files. Instead of Downloading the attachment file on to the device, users can…

Last week China had issued a notice which reads that it bans Microsoft Window's 8 on new government computers. The step is taken in respect of security updates, as organisation doesn't want the system gets out of security updates in future, follows Microsoft's ending of support for Windows XP, news agency Xinhua reported . Xinhua reports that Windows XP is widely used through out the country. Microsoft had promised to give security updates of Windows XP until July 14. 2015…

This is the first time that US have filed a criminal charge against the Chinese military officials for hacking and spying on the several American companies and organisations. The Justice Department announced Monday the indictment of five members of China's People's Liberation Army for hacking U.S. firms and stealing trade secrets. It's unclear at this point whether they will ever face American justice, given the complicated nature of the case; all the defendants are in China a…