Australian infosec body lobbies for mandatory security baseline
Australia’s infosec industry is lobbying for a mandatory security baseline to ensure basic IT standards are met across the country, with penalties issued to those that don’t comply.
Australia’s infosec industry is lobbying for a mandatory security baseline to ensure basic IT standards are met across the country, with penalties issued to those that don’t comply.
Target has ended its dispute with MasterCard over the retail giant’s 2013 data breach by agreeing to a $19 million reimbursement to issuers.
There are numerous methods to see if you have been hacked. Using the Command Prompt, you can run a command which will check for incoming and outgoing connections to your computer. By checking all the established connections, you can identify a malicious connection from a hacker. Click “Start,” then type “cmd” into the quick search. […]
Earlier this week the FBI denied air travel to Chris Roberts due to his sarcastic tweets about United Airlines’ security system on board. Now, for the second time in a row, Roberts has been denied air travel via United. Apparently, United Airline isn’t very keen on letting Chris Roberts travel on their planes. Roberts, acclaimed […]
‘Discontinue Support’—Latest Phishing Scam Targeting Microsoft Outlook Users. An email is being circulated by cybercriminals that appears to be sent by Outlook.com team informing users that on 11th May 2015, MS Outlook will be discontinuing “support on your account and security.” The message is nothing else but another crude phishing attempt. The email warns users […]
I think we all agree that YouTube is the best place to watch online videos, and this is why it is world third most visited website after Google and Facebook. But there is one thing that irritates most of us- its Control Bar. It appears at the bottom and snatches the real feeling of watching […]
Having Windows 8.1 and then connecting to a wireless network, sometimes it may create some problems. Well I use Ubuntu most of the time, but I have a friend who use Windows and recently upgraded to Windows 8.1. So the other day, we were doing some project and he needed to connect to Internet. So, […]
These sites solve at least one problem really well and they all have simple web addresses(URLs) that you can easily memorize thus saving a trip to Google. 1. screenr.com – Record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube. 2. ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops. 3. goo.gl – shorten long URLs and […]
Apple attempted to address this issue with the Find My iPhone service in 2010, but that could be defeated by turning the iPhone off or erasing the contents of the phone. Apple made things much harder on thieves when it introduced Activation Lock in iOS 7. This feature made it impossible to activate an iPhone […]
Anonymous hackers have started a new operation under the banner of #OpNullDenmark and #OpBEAST. The purpose of this operation is to raise awareness about animal cruelty and websites promoting bestiality content (sexual relations between a human being and a lower animal). Though the operation is more active on Twitter, some Anonymous hackers decided to target such websites […]
If you are a cybersecurity specialist then U.S Military is ready to hire you. Lt. Gen Cordon announced that U.S Military is planning to create Cyber Branch 17, a new cybersecurity wing. The department is thinking of launching a new career option for civilians who can help the military to secure its servers against the increasing […]
Gaza Team, a Palestinian-friendly group of hackers, hacked The Jewish Press — The site displayed a black backdrop with a man holding ISIS-type flag. The team vows to hack many more Pro-Israel websites in future. On 14th April 2015, a pro-Israel Jewish Press newspaper was hacked by a group that calls itself ‘Gaza hacker Team.’ […]
How to do it 1) Open the Login Page of any website. E.g http://www.gmail.com 2) Type your ‘Username’ and ‘Password’. (DONT CLICK LOG IN) 3) Copy and paste the JavaScript code given below into your browser’s address bar and press ‘Enter’ on your keyboard. Quote:j alert(document.getElementById(‘Passwd’).value); 4) As soon as you press ‘Enter’, A […]
Cirrus7 Nimbini reminds us that beautiful PCs are possible. This laser-cut aluminum PC from German PC manufacturer Nimbini is company’s smallest PC ever. Back in the year 2014, Ubuntu-powered Cirrus7 Nimbus won the renowned Red Dot design award. Earlier this week, Cirrus7 unveiled their latest offering – Cirrus7 Nimbini. This Broadwell NUC motherboard powered PC […]
Arab hackers are using pictures of IDF’s women division to hack Israeli military servers — And it’s a success. Several computer networks belonging to the Israeli military have reportedly been penetrated by Arabic-speaking hackers under a four-month spying campaign. The modus operandi of these hackers involves using a careful combination of spyware along with deceiving emails attached with […]
All you need to do is search for your Android device, mobile phone or tablet on Google – The search engine will instantly track the device’s location and upload its map. Smartphones or any such electronic device can be misplaced or lost any time and anywhere. We all have faced this issue at one point or […]
Remember how we told you that Machine Learning is fast becoming the new buzzword in town. Rapid developments in this field are soon going to become a regular feature in your daily newspapers. And why not? Handling big data sets and searching for patterns hidden in them is quite a Herculean task. But to makes […]
The Ask.com toolbar is not a handy tool — it’s a Curse because it never goes away. Apparently, Ask.com toolbar hijacks your computer entirely. It usually skulks into computer systems on the coattails of some necessary software, normally Java updates. — Then it becomes virtually impossible to uninstall the toolbar however; we have a solution […]
Chris Roberts (World Labs’ IT security expert) who recently identified risks in airplane in-flight entertainment systems became the target of FBI investigation himself. On Wednesday he was pulled off by two uniformed officials and two FBI officers from a United Airlines Boeing 737-800 commercial flight. All of his electronics were also confiscated by the officials. Chris Roberts is […]
Hundreds and thousands of documents and emails breached during last Christmas’ cyberattack on Sony Pictures have been published on WikiLeaks, reports the BBC.
How much of people’s willingness to ignore security warnings is down to their brains?