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On July 21 2015, Microsoft discovered a massive security breach. They discovered a weakness within the OpenType fonts. This weakness is exploited via documents or webpages that contain malicious OpenType fonts. The breach is occurring in Windows and Adobe type manager library and how these libraries handles these fonts. If this flaw is exploited,...

A major problem on the internet today is bots or computer robots. These Bots affect major data centers. They add a significant amount of no traffic and it is complete autonomous. All it takes is someone setting up the programs and letting them run by. Major companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Facebook are now...

Social Media is ever growing in its popularity and daily usage. This leads to a vast number of attacks on these social media websites or application. The attacks will pick targets that are easy to hack. Usually these are users. Cyber security has become a necessity that can no longer be overlooked.  There are a...

Computers are becoming an intricate part of our daily lives. Organizations and companies employ security specialist to protect their networks and databases. One of the weakest links in this chain of security is the employees and daily users. Attackers use social engineering tactics to lead their attack on the targeted company. One of the most...