With the increased intrusion of technology, the threats of security breaches into out internet-governed lives have increased manifold. Each day we get tons of spam messages, emails and phone calls from the phishing attackers who want to penetrate your accounts and personal information. Talking on the same line, today I’m going to tell you about […]
Android Bug Bounty Program is here and it’s your time to report bugs and get paid. Google’s bug bounty or security rewards program that previously gave away millions of dollars to researcher who identified vulnerabilities in Google’s products such as Chrome since 2010 has been re-launched. The program has been extended now and will include […]
It’s an old news that Windows 10 will be available as a free download to Windows 7 and Windows 8 users. This upgrade will be available to the users free of cost if they will avail this upgrade offer within one year starting from July 29. Now what if you don’t have Windows 8 or […]
Facebook hacking has been a major “topic” for the curious user,but today i’ll be focusing on an easy trick to send messages as anyone on Facebook. Step 1: First off you will need to pick 2 people from your friends list. One will be the inbox sender and one will be the receiver.Lets say we […]
WikiLeaks, a whistle-blowing site has published 276,394 new docs taken from Sony in Nov by an anonymous attacker. It adds to the 173,132 emails and 30K docs published in April 2015. The new docs were made accessible on Tuesday by the WikiLeaks. No open proclamation from the site accompanied the released, yet it asserted on […]
Remember that Russian paramedic Tatiana Kulikova? Remember her habit of taking selfies with Dying Patients and uploading them on social media? Well, she was a selfie Psycho, but this German dude is crazy!! A love-lost German apparently wanted to hand over half of their belongings to his ex-wife in a unique manner by literally sawing them in half. He gave […]
Facebook’s current rival apparently being backed by the famous hacker group Anonymous. A new social network is hoping to surpass Facebook and other prominent social media giants in popularity, which is not news at all. However, the fact that this new social network is being backed by none other than the online hacktivist Anonymous is definitely big […]
Since the last two years, the privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo has witnessed a phenomenal 600% growth. The search engine was launched back in 2008 by Garbiel Weinberg and nobody expected to make any impression on the search market dominated by Google. Now after the seven years of its launch, this Philadelphia-based startup DuckDuckGo has […]
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 […]