Time after time we have experienced revolutions in our societies, in the way we work and thus in the Industry. In the past we have been through several Industrial Revolutions and now it’s seems to be the time for another.
Short Bytes: Kim Dotcom, the founder of notorious file-sharing website Megaupload, has said that he is working on an internet alternative called Meganet. He revealed that it’ll be a P2P-based internet service that will come with strong encryption methods, making it impossible to hack. Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is building his own internet alternative called […]
Short Bytes: Baidu, the Chinese analogous to Google has distributed a software development kit (SDK), Moplus, which has reportedly made over 100 million Android users open to attacks by putting a backdoor to their devices. The corrupt SDK has reached in 14,112 Android apps of which about 4,000 have been created by Baidu. This is […]
Short Bytes: Are you new to the world of Git and GitHub, finding it a little bit scary? Well, to erase these fears of command-line users who are new to this workflow tool, GitHub has released a self-paced training course which is available at no cost for a limited time. GitHub is the first choice […]
Wallets are becoming more integrated with other things. Soon, we might all use our phones as a way to pay for things. However, the ultimate way to ensure that you don’t forget your wallet at home is to embed it into your skin. That’s exactly what Patric Lanhed is doing, having placed a tiny computer […]
Vodafone is the second British telecommunications company in two weeks to be on the receiving end of a serious hack. Yet another UK telecom company has fallen victim to hackers. Mobile network Vodafone said on Saturday that it was subject to a cyberattack on Wednesday and Thursday, with 1,827 customer accounts left exposed. This follows […]
A group of hackers who claimed responsibility for the hacking of numerous government and even Chinese websites since 2012 has found a new target. The Twitter account of Maine Mendoza a.k.a. Yaya Dub which currently has 2.4 million followers was hacked by Anonymous Philippines, a group of “hacktivists” Tuesday night. The group, which has justified […]
Earlier this month, exploit acquisition platform Zerodium debuted an iOS 9 bug bounty that would pay out up to three million dollars to hackers who managed to develop a browser-based untethered jailbreak for iOS 9, which it could then sell to clients interested in shelling out a lot of money to gain illicit access to […]
Researchers have discovered an Android malware disguising itself as a Microsoft word document which triggers a malicious code once opened. This Android malware was found when a user installed an app from third-party app developers. Once the app was installed, a Microsoft word like icon appeared on the home screen and before even the user could think […]
Short Bytes: Zerodium’s million dollar iOS 9 jailbreak bounty program has expired and it has resulted in a new iOS jailbreak. But, the names of the winning hacking team and its members hasn’t been revealed by Zerodium. The firm plans to sell the hack to its customers, including spy agencies, governments, technology companies and others. […]
Short Bytes: Linus Torvalds says, “Talk is cheap. Show me the code.” What if you show him some code and it pisses him off? Well, you are about to discover the answer in an unapologetic rant full of swears. Father of the Linux is a legendary software engineer who gets angry when he sees bad […]
Facebook’s is always changing and its team is adding new functionality every couple of months. With new changes there are chances of affecting security and introducing vulnerabilities explains an information security company expert. This month search feature got a major upgrade and this tool will now let people exploit all posts on the friends and […]
Short Bytes: Adobe Flash Player continues to remain the favorite target of the cyber attackers. The recent zero-day exploits that were earlier used in targeted attacks, are now a part of some of the most popular exploit kits making the dangers more obvious. The latest Adobe Flash zero-day exploit has found its place in some […]
Timing attacks are an interesting part of computer security. As an extreme example, imagine that your computer took one second to verify each character in your login password. And now imagine that it stopped checking at the first wrong character, for reasons of efficiency. You could quickly figure out the right password by timing how […]
Snapchat’s new term and conditions have resulted in outrage from its users and twitter has been flooded with tweets from users rejecting company’s new terms and conditions. Snapchat is one of the most popular chatting and picture sharing apps and according to company’s statistics over the last year 700 million messages were sent through the […]
A laptop filled with data? An external HDD filled with even more data? There’s bound to be a phone – possibly two if you spend a lot of time in one location overseas and don’t / can’t switch SIMs in your main one. They probably have a fair bit of info on them, especially if […]
In the wake of the TalkTalk Scandal, Vodafone finally admitted that hackers did manage to steal around 20,000 Vodafone customers’ bank details. According to the Mobile Phone provider firm, hackers gained access to 1,827 accounts and managed to steal confidential details about its customers such as name, date of birth, mobile number, bank sort codes […]
My last on-topic post pontificated about the dangers and surprise of letting third parties into your house or codebase, where I discussed the addition of a TV DVR system to my home network. In this post, I’m going to go into some details about what I found on the network for the pure pleasure of it […]
Tor team is one step closer to launch the Tor messenger as they have finally launched the first beta version after three alpha versions (that were for initial testing). The messenger is not coded from scratch rather it’s been coded on top of Mozilla’s Instabird IM chat client. The team had considered another option in […]
PayPal has been one of the most attractive platforms for the hackers and spammers. During a recent year, PayPal users have been played around them. But, PayPal’s own security has not been a problem rather cyber criminals has been launching phishing attack on the PayPal’s users. Mind you PayPal has one of the best security layouts […]
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