Did you ever face a problem of losing your contacts from your Android phone? Ahh…it really gets me when I accidentally delete or lose phone number of my colleague or friends. I put all the blame on my phone for that even if it’s my fault and I guess most of you also do the […]
Popular meme site Reddit has announced that it will soon encrypt all traffic with HTTPS by default.
Have you ever heard of a small town named Râmnicu Vâlcea from Romania? I’m pretty sure that your answer is no. This small and quiet town with a population less than 100,000 people has become famous over the past few years as a global hub of cyber-criminals. Motherboard writes that some people like to refer […]
Read the Part 1 and Part 3 of Getting Started with Linux : Choosing the desired Linux distribution and Command Line After downloading a desired Linux distribution, you can try it out using these methods: Install Linux virtually – If you already have a machine running Windows, Mac or another Linux distro, and you don’t want to remove or […]
Teen shot dead while using mobile phone tracking app — All that it took to take the life of an innocent teen was a lost cell phone. CBC News reports that a Canadian teen Jeremy Cook left his mobile phone in a taxi. In order to retrieve the phone, the 18-year old boy used a location tracking […]
Every June, a select group of students from high schools and middle schools in San Diego County, California, get five days of intense education in the art of defending computer systems.
Microsoft, just like all other software companies, constantly asks its customers to update their applications on their computers to remain fully secure from hackers who could exploit old vulnerabilities. However, in the rush to convince its customers for doing so, Microsoft forgot to update its own servers. Reportedly, the website that was developed for helping […]
Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has seen traffic rocket after recent widely publicized privacy scares, according to the company.
Microsoft’s dedicated website to fight the US government surveillance and privacy breachings has just been hacked. While Microsoft is aiming to bring improved security features to the users in Windows 10, it looks like the company forgot to secure its own systems. The website named Digital Constitution was launched in 2013 by the Redmond just […]
The genius minds at Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple are coming together to create WebAssembly (also known as wasm). This is a new binary format – bytecode – to be used in browsers in future and promises about 20 times faster performance. Bytecode is a machine-readable instruction set that is faster for web browser to […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous claimed responsibility for conducting DDoS attacks on Canadian government servers against the approval of anti-terror law C-51 that weakens Internet privacy. On 11th June 2015, we reported that Canada approved controversial anti-terror law C-51 that actually provides Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) immense powers as it can violate digital privacy of any one […]
Tattoo Recognition System is coming! Recently committed a crime? Do you happen to have a large visible tattoo? Then you could soon be tracked down simply by the body art on your skin, the NIST has suggested. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working on an algorithm that will essentially be able to […]
Facebook is in hot water. The social media giant is being taken to court by Belgium’s Privacy Commission (BPC), among accusations that it has violated privacy laws. The BPC has slammed Mark Zuckerberg’s creation for spying on non-users and the tracking system that is being utilised by the company. The main issues are not the tracking […]
So long Password1234 or surname1, there is a new, more readily memorable password system on our doorstep — That is what Intelligent Environments are implying with their new innovation, Emoji Passcode. The British financial services technology firm has created a revolutionary new mobile app that will allow users to create emoji-based passwords, that may be […]
Android phone users have long shared the view that, despite the continual announcements of ongoing security breaches in an evermore technological world, their devices remained relatively secure. This confidence is likely to have shattered by today’s news that up to 600 million users may be vulnerable to a cracking attack, primarily thanks to the widely […]
Consumers in the UK would be happy to share their DNA if it would help secure their financial and personal information, according to a new report.
In October last year, we reported how a 10-year-old filipino virtual girl “sweetie” takes pedophile to prison in Australia for good. Now a report suggests that scammers/predators are tricking users (mostly males) into extorting money via online video chat on Skype and other chatting softwares. The scammers are smart, all they do is use an attractive woman and some sweet […]
The St. Louis Cardinals, one the United States’s top major league baseball teams, is being investigated for allegedly hacking into the computer systems of sporting rivals.
Someone hacked the official website of Lithuanian Armed Forces and posted false information about NATO ready to attack Kaliningrad Oblast. A group of unknown hackers hacked the official website of Lithuanian Armed Forces, Thursday morning and defaced it with a provocative message claiming that the reason for U.S.-led Saber Strike training exercises, which began on June 8 is to […]
Another day, another Facebook phishing scam — Facebook users must be cautious since a new phishing scam message is circulating on the social network. A new phishing scam message titled “Forbidden Content” has been circulating across Facebook timelines nowadays. According to this, forbidden content and mistrustful activity has been identified on your Facebook account. The […]
A San Francisco Bay Area based artist and designer Ted Kessler has always yearned to merge art with science. A bachelor in Digital Arts from the University of Oregon, Kessler has rich background in digital imaging, web programming and music. This infatuation basically paved way for the creation of the 3D Ear to Hell, Kessler’s […]