Some things are better if kept private. I have seen many people hating it like anything when their friends or family members try to unlock their smartphone without their permission. And sometimes due to lots of successive incorrect attempts, the phone gets hard-locked – that means the only way to unlock your phone is via […]
Have you ever wondered what information web pages have on you? Just perform a simple google search and check out the results! You will get surprised that they even know your dog’s name, some photos you took while very drunk are there as well. Even some stupid videos you took way back in college. And your […]
A UK man has been charged this week with a non-custodial sentence, after a ransomware infection on his computer made him confess to police. The man’s computer housed hundreds of animal porn images, quoted by court as dangerous and disgusting. Local news report declares that, Scotland resident 61-year-old Victor Anthony Noble, who lived in the […]
New Breakthrough suggests that Fingerprints will soon reveal to cops if suspects are High on cocaine. According to advancement in “drug test” from the University of Surrey, UK a new, noninvasive drug test for cocaine has been devised that precisely identifies if a person has consumed cocaine or not, just through their fingerprints. The test works […]
Australians were tricked out of around AUS$82 million (US$66 million) during 2014, with online dating scams accounting for the biggest losses.
The British government has passed legislation amending the Computer Misuse Act to prevent GCHQ, the police and intelligence services from prosecution over any hacking into mobile phones and computers.
The officials at The Penn State College of Engineering announced that its servers were attacked in two “extremely sophisticated” cyber-attacks and as a result, personal data of 18k folks was affected. On Friday (15th of May) the Penn State University said that its College of Engineering was attacked by two cyber-attacks, one in 2012 which […]
The online hacktivist AnonGhost just hacked, defaced the official website of Wayne Country Sheriff’s department and publicly leaked its database containing login credentials of its employees. The attack on the Sheriff’s website was conducted under the banner of #OpUSA, an online operation where Palestine friendly hackers are targeting US based websites. AnonGhost left a deface page, […]
Anonymous hacktivist breached a government of Chile website and leaked login details of officials in support of student protests against the government’s education policy. The online hacktivist Anonymous breached into the official website of Chile’s National Municipal Information System and leaked login credentials of thousands of officials in support of students protesting against government education policy and against […]
Our name is an integral part of our existence and this is our basic identity. But the way people name their children and the popularity of different names have changed over the time. A funny little widget at Time.com tells me that if I would’ve been named Evans if I was born in 1970s and […]
Installing a fresh Windows 8.1 hasn’t been the easiest thing in the world till now as Windows 8 users needed a licensed product key for upgrading their systems to the latest version of Windows operating system. Other problems were you couldn’t use your old Windows 8 key to install Windows 8.1 or choose the installation […]
Are you good at programming and do you call yourself a computer expert? Here’s a chance to earn a million miles and spend it on traveling by air. The United Airlines is willing to reward you with free “miles” for your expertise if you are able to find a bug in United Airlines’ site. The […]
The concept of Transparency carries a simple meaning, if practiced by governments it will empower the masses, place them in a position to expose misuse of power, corruption and defend their democracies. A namesake transparency will only be reduced to a smokescreen and a word to keep everything dark hidden and under wraps, something needs […]
mSpy, the notorious software-as-a-device product which so far enabled two million plus people spy on their spouses and kids, is believed to be a victim of serious hacking. Last week it was discovered that massive data has been stolen from the company’s servers and posted on the Dark Web, revealing numerous emails, text messages, payment […]
Twitch has been making some very awful encoding and additional bad choices for streamers and viewers of Twitch.tv. This method has been used before for various streams but now is rather needed to avoid buffering and delay of the stream. Things you will need Livestreamer – Download here Vlc – Download here Step 1 […]
Many people feel the need to use Torrents to pirate software that would normally be paid for, however by doing this torrent users are putting themselves at risk to all kinds of Trojan related Malware. However there are alternatives to pirating software and that is to look further into the fabulous world of open source!. […]
In this world 36 million kids have taken part in Hour of code activities, by helping them to develop their skill in technology use and that might help to get a job one day. Most of your kids wont be interesting in coding but these games can improve problem-solving and thinking skills which is important […]
A couple of months ago we reported how [linked url=”https://www.hackread.com/app-store-phishing-email-stealing-apple-user-credentials/”]an app store phishing email is stealing Apple user credentials[/linked]. Now a government of Vietnam domain belonging to its Tam Ky City was found redirecting visitors to another compromised domain asking them to login with their Apple IDs. The domain hosting the phishing page was anphutamky.gov.vn, redirecting users to a […]
The email apparently is sent from the popular messaging service WhatsApp and claims that you have received an audio recording. A malicious email claiming to be sent by the messaging service WhatsApp is actually a malware. The email’s subject line contains a name that has been derived from your email address’ first portion and a randomly […]
To demonstrate their creativity cybercriminals have released a new ransomware equipped with file encryption abilities and this time they have chosen logo of “Los Pollos Hermanos” fast food chain featured in famous TV show “Breaking Bad.” No matter how much we condemn cybercriminals for their deeds we cannot deny that they have been demonstrating their […]
Apple has filed a court objection against the sale of RadioShack customer data for those who had purchased its products, reports Ars Technica.