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What is VISHING?

What is VISHING? Vishing is like phishing which also includes VOIP (Voice Over IP) to exploit. Where VOIP is a Technic in which phone calls are done by means of IP addresses or through internet without using your cellular network and balance. Vishing is done by hackers via voice mails, VOIP calls, landline or cellular phone calls etc. By Vishing hackers can lead you to reveal your personal information over VOIP call. You can be a victim very easily in vishing tactic. So Beware before revealing your information. Vishing which seems something like phishing is an electronic tactic or a trick to dodge people via voice mail and calls over IP i.e., VOIP. Like phishing hackers or intruders send voice mails or calls over IP to people to inform that there is some security issue has occurred on their Credit card, Debit Card or bank account, and they need to verify their identity by calling on a particular phone number. If they don’t do so, their account or cards would be ceased permanent

What is TLS?

What is TLS TLS Stands for Transport layer security and is a Successor of SSL which stands for Secure Socket Layer, TLS is a way which provides you secure communication over Internet for email, faxing, Instant messaging and other data transfer. This protocol resides on application layer protocol, and involve encryption scenarios. TLS is a set of rules which helps you a lot when you are communicating over Internet via Instant messaging, online fax, VOIP (Voice Over IP) and emails by providing you lots of end to end security. TLS is a successor of SSL and mainly resides on application layer. TLS uses handshake protocol to authenticate server and client before sending or encrypting any message. In TLS only server deploy public key to authenticate server so that no third party or intruders may eavesdrop any message or communication in order to save message forgery. There is no major difference between TLS and SSL, just some minor enhancement has done with SSL to improve reliability

What is an "XBOT" Trojan in Android Devices?

What is an "XBOT" Trojan in Android Devices "XBOT is a sort of Trojan which steals our credit card credentials, Contacts, SMS and other personal information from our device like Android phone, Trojan as we know is a malicious software which steals our personal information, this "XBOT" Trojan can also encrypt your device and then it can ask u for ransom" Recently a new sort of Trojan found for android devices, which named "XBOT" and developed by Russian hackers. It is still under development and found changing malicious behavior frequently. Almost 25 apps in android are found vulnerable with this Trojan . The major feature of this Trojan is that, it does phishing to dodge users and it can create fake Google play store payment pages to trap you. It also can generate seven different bank payment portals to steal your information, like your card number, CVV, expire date and your card pin. It also can encrypt your device data and then display