We have been writing about various types of drones from a long time on fossBytes and in the continuously expanding drone universe, each day we witness new products with different functionalities and sizes. Drones aren’t just being used by FBI for surveillance(and getting tracked) or being tested by Amazon to deliver products- they are becoming […]
There’s a lot more to phone scams than tech support, giving rise to an escalating number of complaints. Here’s what two recent reports tell us.
About eighteen months ago, GitHub launched its homegrown text editor named Atom. Atom was a result of about six years of research and was available to the users with the beta status. Today, GitHub’s hackable text editor is graduating and hitting 1.0. Atom has already been downloaded more than 1.3 million times and has more […]
When Anonymous goes against you, there’s no way out! Same is going on with Canadian government who’s constantly under cyber attack against the approval of anti-terror law C-51 that weakens Internet privacy. On June 24, 2015, Anonymous breached into the server of Police Association of Ontario, Canada (pao.ca) and leaked personal details of its 1,300 employees and registered […]
The problem with Facebook is thousands of active phishing scams but the social media giant has partnered with popular security software developer firm Kaspersky so that users could identify and remove malware from their computers. Malware basically is used as an umbrella term as it includes all sorts of computer infections and viruses, Trojans, worms, spyware, […]
In 2013, we came up with a tutorial on How to undo sent emails on gmail. Now a new email tool has been announced by Google for its Gmail users so that they can retrieve emails that they have sent within 30 seconds. The new “Undo Send” tool by Google is an amazing new feature […]
U.S Defense Department, as well as its security agencies, have always wanted UK style hoverbikes that although perform all the functions that a helicopter generally does but don’t have those inherent problems of helicopters. Reportedly, to make their dream come true, U.S Defense Department has stricken a deal with British and American engineers, giving them […]
Recent high-profile data breaches have illustrated criminals’ insatiable appetite for data and financial reward. Here’s some information on what to do after an attack.
Apple will reportedly introduce a new privacy update for the iPhone that will prevent installed iOS apps from seeing which other apps have been downloaded to the device.
When someone talks about stealing some data from a PC, what is the suspected source according to you? You may end up guessing Ethernet, WiFi, or Bluetooth. But once in a while, the truth could be something totally different. The researchers at Tel Aviv University and the Technion of Iran has made a device that […]
Recently, a researcher revealed that Google might be spying on all of its Chromium web browser users by stealth downloading audio listeners onto their computer, which then transmits all the audio from computer’s microphone back to the Google servers. Well, this determines that Google had given itself the right to listen to everything happening within […]
Another day, another Facebook phishing scam — The email claims to be sent by Facebook Team and warns recipients that they have 24 hours to reconfirm their account details to avoid permanent deletion from the social network. Facebook is in the news again and so is its Security because a threatening email titled “Last Warning” […]
For people who have been hit by the menace of revenge porn, a recent announcement by Google will bring some relief. Google has decided to remove “revenge porn” from its search results. The company said that anyone whose nude and sexual images and videos have been posted online without his/her consent, could approach Google for […]
Kali Linux is a penetration testing and security auditing Linux distribution. After its release in March 2013, Kali Linux has quickly become the new favorite among PenTesters worldwide as their choice for the PenTesting OS. Replacing its predecessor Backtrack, Kali incorporated several new features and looks quite promising.It is available for i386 and amd64 architectures […]
You are using your laptop and it has a software updater tool – what do you expect it to do? You expect it to update your system software and keep your system secure. But, Samsung’s “software updater” tool is doing just the opposite. The Samsung software updater is disabling the official Windows Update on some […]
A MacRumors Forum user has stumbled upon the fact that when installing the iOS 9 (beta version), the operating system will delete your third-party apps as a way of making space for the update. The revelation came by way of a pop-up that informed the user that deleted apps would be reinstated once the update […]
Europol is going after people using social media platforms to spread ISIS propaganda. It was the Anonymous hacktivist group who took the initiative and exposed 26,000+ Twitter accounts having alleged links with ISIS/ISIL group. The group also leaked a list of websites allegdly spporting the extremist group. Now a new Police Unit has been established […]
A new photo-sharing application has been released by Facebook this week called Moments. This app utilizes facial recognition technology to tag and sends your pictures from your private camera roll. Facebook’s Product manager Will Ruben writes in his blog post about Facebook Moments App: “Syncing photos with the Moments app is a private way to give […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous hacked and defaced the the official website of Montreal Police Union (Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montréal) website against the approval of anti-terror law C-51 that weakens Internet privacy. Anonymous also breached into the official website of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Canada and leaked personal information of government officials. Anonymous left […]
An ingenious team of Israeli security researchers at Tel Aviv University have discovered a way to steal secret encryption keys using a gadget so small it can be hidden inside some pita bread.
What is a proxy and what types of proxies exist? What protocol are used in the anonymization process? How does anonymity help with malware investigations?