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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.
Aryeh Goretsky and David Harley talk to Sabrina Pagnotta about the internet’s impact on security research.
A year after Google introduced its controversial ‘right to be forgotten’ feature, the search giant has published some statistics about its implementation.
The official mobile website of American daily newspaper The Washington Post was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad. After taking over the mobile website of The Washington Post, hackers redirected the site to one of their own sites (sea.sy). The attack was conducted about 9 hours ago when visitors on the […]
If you are a hacker or an IT security researcher, United Airlines has announced its first ever Bug Bounty program for you guys. Yes, United Airlines is the first airline in the world to start a bug bounty program and pay rewards to those who will find security flaw/bugs on its apps, online portals, and websites. […]
Summary: In a bid to raise awareness regarding the way malware can affect GPUs, a team of developers recently created a Linux rootkit running on graphics cards — In the newly released proof-of-concept the team proved that no OS is strong enough to evade the malware and basically the existing security tools are weak not the […]
Lack of some elementary security measures can risk your router’s security and this has stemmed to grow into a large-scale denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks using these hacker-controlled routers. A web security firm Incapsula has discovered a new router based botnet Mr Black while investigating some DDoS attacks against its customers since this December. Hackers exploited routers’ […]
Summary: Earlier this week Bob Sullivan reported that hackers can easily access Starbucks customer accounts by stealing their username and passwords and naturally Starbucks app users panicked — Starbucks in its official statement denied the allegations of any sort of security breach. An independent tech reporter Bob Sullivan shocked the users of Starbucks app by reporting that […]
The CrowStrike researchers discovered that any attacker can burst out of specific virtual machines and exploit whatever is running nearby — The most disturbing fact revealed is that a portion of cloud-hosted network may also be running on that same system. This revelation nullifies the claim that these vessels are extremely strong and protective. A […]
A Russian hacking group planned on launching cyberattacks against several banks around the world, according to SC Magazine.
Not all apps are worth your time and money. We Live Security looks at five signs the app you’re about to download could be risky, and worth investigating further.
The USA Freedom Act was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday and the bill, which is going to change the way NSA gathers nation’s cellular data, now will be forwarded to Senate. The United States House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted in favor of the USA Freedom Act with 338 votes favoring it and […]