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Two ‘Boeing 737 MAX’ air crashes within six months – the authority(FAA) or software(MCAS)...

Two fatal air crashes in Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 model in less than six months have aroused a lot of questions on the U.S....
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Cloudflare raises $150M with Franklin Templeton leading the latest round of funding

After a long break from fundraising, yesterday Cloudflare, a U.S. based company that provides content delivery network services, Internet security, etc, announced that it...
ACME

Let’s Encrypt ACME Protocol is now standardized by the IETF

ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) is no longer just a Let's Encrypt effort as it is now standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force...
Microsoft

Announcing DTrace for Windows Insider

Microsoft announced on its blog today that the company has added support for DTrace into its Insider builds. The forthcoming Windows 10 feature update...
Hacker, cyborg programmer on a computer

Resecurity reports ‘IRIDUIM’ behind Citrix data breach, 200+ government agencies, oil and gas companies,...

Last week, Citrix, the American cloud computing company, disclosed that it suffered a data breach on its internal network. They were informed of this...
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Flickr says Creative Commons photos won’t be subject to 1,000 picture limit

On November 1st, 2018 Flickr announced that they would be limiting free accounts to just 1,000 pictures. But it recently made an exception: that...
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A security researcher reveals his discovery on 800+ Million leaked Emails available online

A security researcher Bob Diachenko shared his discovery of an unprotected 150GB-sized MongoDB instance. He said that there were a huge number of emails...
Machine learning based Email-sec-360°surpasses 60 antivirus engines in detecting malicious emails

ChaCha20-Poly1305 vulnerability issue affects OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.1.0

On Wednesday, March 6, the OpenSSL team revealed a low severity vulnerability in the ChaCha20-Poly1305, an AEAD cipher that incorrectly allows a nonce to...
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RSA Conference 2019 Highlights: Top 5 cybersecurity products announced

The theme at the ongoing RSA 2019 conference is “Better”. As the official RSA page explains, “This means working hard to find better solutions....
ACME

Google releases a fix for the zero day vulnerability in its Chrome browser while...

Yesterday, Google announced that a patch for Chrome released last week was actually a fix for an active zero-day discovered by its security team....

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Microsoft announces: Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac, a fully automated DNA...

Microsoft made a series of new announcements, earlier this week. These include a new Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac, a first fully automated DNA...

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