Paypal got itself into a heavy fine totaling $7.7 million after being alleged to have processed payments for highly suspicious customers that led to the breach of US sanctions. Paypal made a settlement with the U.S Treasury Department to pay the fine for having processed the suspicious payments amounting to $44000. Paypal however did not […]
It seems that the EU citizens might have to give up their Facebook accounts if they want to protect their online privacy. The European Commission recently told that there were serious privacy issues concerning users’ data of EU citizens on Facebook. The Safe Harbour legislation does not provide for the protection of the data from […]
After the release of Ubuntu MATE 15.04 Beta 2, Ubuntu 15.04 Final Beta, Ubuntu Kylin 15.04 Beta 2 and Kubuntu 15.04 Beta 2, its time to greet the final beta release of Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vernet). Ubuntu 15.04 Beta 2 has been released and you can download it to test and use. This Ubuntu release is […]
The voting system used by the Eurovision Song Contest was briefly forced offline after a suspected cyberattack caused an “extreme” surge in activity,.
On March 21st, a group of pro-ISIS hackers from Morocco, going with the handle of Team System DZ hacked into the server of Wisconsin’s Richland County, defacing several high-profile websites including the country’s Sheriffs department website. Other targeted sites include City of Richland Center Municipality, Parks Commission, Ambulance Service, Richland County Fair & Recycling, Land Conservation department and Richland county Fitness center. Hackers […]
Remember that time while installing an app, you agreeing to all the terms and conditions without giving much thought. Well, here is some news for you. You are under constant vigil of your beloved apps. The apps you had installed for your assistance are spying on you. The news came into limelight when a team […]
ESET’s Mark James on the issues employees have with business security measures, and how to counter the difficulties without compromising safety.
Point of Sale credit card terminals are under threat from a new malware named PoSeidon, thought to be more dangerous than the Zeus exploit kit that was used to steal millions of card details from Target customers.
Exceeding your data limit could be your biggest nightmare if you don’t have an unlimited data connection. Listening your prayers, Google has silently launched a new extension for its Chrome browser. This extension is called Data Saver and is currently in beta. Data Saver uses Google’s data compression proxy service for optimization and saving the […]
A hacker has discovered that the openness of Tinder’s API allowed him to set up unknowing men via a fake female profile they both believed that they were talking to.
Privacy advocates are not happy with new Hello Barbie toy for kids – Researchers claim the Barbie with ability to have conversation with kids actually records, stores and sends conversations to the company’s headquarters in real time via wifi connection. Mattel, Inc. an American toy manufacturing company has introduced a new toy for children called Hello Barbie. It can communicate […]
A new study reveals our own smartphones are constantly tracking our movements after every 3 minutes – Our apps love to know where are we. It is a widely known fact that smartphone apps collect a huge amount of data regularly. The data usually includes users’ location information. But startling new facts on this data […]
Not even a month has passed since AllCrypt Bitcoin was taken down and another Altcoin exchange has been attacked by hackers. Cryptoine offers numerous markets that are generally absent from larger exchanges. Apparently, it has stopped operating due to a hack attack. Operators of Cryptoine have promised to reveal details but no specific time or […]
Facebook evidently hasn’t fully accepted the failure of Home and is now trying to swap your Android smartphone’s dialer with one of it’s own. It has been identified by Android Police tipsters that the social network giant Facebook is inspecting a dialer app that will reveal detailed information about the caller and will also block […]
The Irish government’s Freedom of Information (FOI) website has been targeted by hackers claiming to be connected to the ISIS terror group.
The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee has introduced a new threat sharing bill designed to let businesses share details of security treats without fear of litigation, reports Gizmodo.
The security researchers at Ben Gurion University in Israel have identified the method of obtaining air-gapped system data through heat emissions and the built-in thermal sensors of a computer. The method has been named BitWhisper. Air-gapped systems that generally are not linked with other systems and are also isolated from the Internet can be utilized in circumstances […]
Prison Security Breached by Drone to Transfer Knife, drugs and phones into the jail. This can easily pass as a very daring night-time action in which a drone was used to smuggle weapons, cell phones and drugs at the high profile Bedford Prison. The wicked maneuver only got identified when the remote control device got […]
Beware all you retailers, a new Trojan program dubbed as PoSeidon targets point-of-sale or PoS terminals and can potentially steal payment card data for abusing it later. According to Cisco Security Solutions research team, this new malware can perform memory scraping, which means it can scan RAM of all the compromised terminals to locate encrypted […]
Canada has been using an array of cyberweapons to gather intelligence, spy on other governments and damage adversary infrastructure, says a new report.
Nearly 40 percent of large companies – including a significant number in the Fortune 500 – are not taking necessary precautions to secure the apps that they’re providing their customers.