The CIA and the US senate committee are at loggerheads, according to media reports on Tuesday. This meme describes the Hypocrisy at its best Reuters reported that all does not seem to be well between the CIA and one of the greatest ally of the US intelligence, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the US Senate Committee chairwoman. […]
A “particularly unpleasant” phishing email purporting to be the results of a blood count report showing that the recipient may have cancer is circulating. It seems to be sent from a government health care organization – but it’s a malware-laced scam.
A new wearable authenticator built to be the key to “everything” will be designed by some of the hottest new talents in wearable technology, including the creators of the Neptune Pine smartwatch – one of the only wearable devices to work independently of smartphones.
The scammers take advantage of every incident to trick people and get some bucks or likes on social media. Same is going on right now with the heartbreaking incident of missing Malaysian plane flight number MH370. An alert for all our readers! A fake news about the missing Malaysian plane flight number MH370 is being circulated all over […]
A group of Ukrainian hackers going with the handle of CyberBerkut has taken down the official website of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) along with its Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence. Screenshot of NATO website, showing error message Hackers launched a DDoS-attack on NATO main web server (www.nato.int), NATO Parliamentary Assembly (www.nato-pa.int) and NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of […]
Bad news for WhatsApp users on Android. If you chat on WhatsApp, it’s time to be careful and avoid getting too private. An IT security expert Bas Bosschert has discovered a critical vulnerability, allowing another Android apps to access and read all of a user’s chat conversations. Vulnerability in WhatsApp Allows Hackers To Read Your Conversation and View […]
Syrian Hackers have stated that they have compromised the central command of the US. Syrian Hackers Claim They’ve Compromised US Central Command The hackers from Syrian Electronic Army, which are hardcore supporters of the President of Syria Bashar Al-Assad have claimed that they have penetrated into the networks and other systems of the central command […]
Microsoft Word users have been urged to update their software after attacks against users of MS Word 2010, where opening a “specially crafted” Rich Text Format file allowed attackers to remotely execute code on the victim’s machine.
Smartphone apps and home equipment for scanning brainwaves could lead to a future in which governments or companies misuse such data as a way of decoding people’s personality traits, researchers from MIT and the Technical University of Denmark have warned.
According to one of the recent report, NSA is believed to be spying many Facebook users since 2010. NSA used a number of automated techniques to install malwares into users systems. Snowden Leaks: NSA Posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware NSA codenamed these techniques as “TRIBUNE”, executed via a network of malware implant which […]
A post promising a video of a plane landing on water has been circulating on Facebook, with a title suggesting that it contains news footage of the rescue of passengers on board the missing flight MH370 – but there is no video, and it’s a criminal scam.
‘Highly-paid’ mystery shopper assignments where you’re sent cashier’s checks upfront can end up costing you a lot of money.
A hidden backdoor in the modified version of Android run by nine Samsung Galaxy models could allow attackers to spy remotely on user data – and even snoop on users using hardware such as the GPS system, camera and microphone.
Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower made his longest public appearance at the SXSW conference since his surveillance act. This was done through a video conference made via Google hangouts Snowden but in this Snowden’s actual location was kept hidden through a barrage of 7 proxies. Snowden in this event was basically addressing the programmers and […]
A man from Romania has committed suicide after his computer got infected with “police ransomware,” according to a local media report. Police ransomware is a common threat and many victims have been forced to pay bogus fines. According to Braila 24, the local newspaper, Marcel Datcu, a 36-year old man from Movila Miressii, hanged himself […]
Two-thirds of top e-commerce sites still accept the weakest passwords, such as “123456” and “password” without warning users that these are the very first passwords hackers will use in attempts to breach their accounts, according to a new survey.
The emerging ‘internet of things’ raises big security questions, and vulnerabilities in connected devices such as ‘smart’ fridges may force companies to work together in a way never previously seen, according to Microsoft’s Jan Neutze.
A group of Turkish hackers have hacked the official Twitter account of Mustafa Varank, who is a top political advisers of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Hackers defaced the Twitter account, posting messages and images in solidarity with the protests in memory of Berkin Elvan, a 15-year-old teenager who died March 11 after being in […]
Microsoft releases a fix for a zero-day vulnerability that has already been exploited by hackers in targeted attacks against some organisations. Don’t delay!
A tech-firm has amazed the world with its proof-of-demonstration of a remote-controlled “stun copter” that can deliver 80,000 volts of electricity to a hapless target, at the South by Southwest Interactive festival, Austin, Texas, giving an idea how terrifying the consumer grade personal drones can be. The drone, an invention of the Chaotic Moon Studios—an […]
Smartphones such as iPhone 5S rely on buttons to scan fingerprints – but the CEO of biometrics firm CrucialTec says that smartphones with a new hi-tech bezel-free screen which scans fingerprints will go on sale this summer.