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British government’s new investigatory bill (pdf) has a proposal on making it legal to hack smart toys in order to allow investigators to get to pry on suspects. A few weeks back an expert (Matt Jakubowski) showed how Wifi enabled Hello Barbie can be used to reveal Wifi network name, account IDs and MP3 files, though, spying on […]
Tor team is one step closer to launch the Tor messenger as they have finally launched the first beta version after three alpha versions (that were for initial testing). The messenger is not coded from scratch rather it’s been coded on top of Mozilla’s Instabird IM chat client. The team had considered another option in […]
WhatsApp, one of the most popular online calling apps, has been exposed by a group of researchers who identified how app’s internal protocol is storing call duration and personal information of the participants. Though, WhatsApp has never claimed itself to be an anonymous calling service but this new research has unveiled new information on how […]
Apple is all set to allow TOR anonymity apps on iOS9, which will be the part of its ongoing effort to defend their user’s privacy. A fascinating part of this news that the apps are coming for Apple devices when U.S and UK government are in discussions on future of encryption and anonymity online. All […]
For those who seek privacy while working online, you now have a solution in “Warble,” an Anonymous calling app for Android, iOS and Windows OS. Warble is an app developed to allow users to communicate via phone calls without getting spied on by Govt agencies, who are always on the look out for data collection. […]
Extremely secretive spy vehicles equipped with X-ray facility, Z Backscatter, will now be seen patrolling the city streets — NYPD hasn’t disclosed anything yet regarding why and how these vehicles will be used. It is understood that these vehicles will be capable of monitoring the contents of your car’s interior and also of your homes. […]
Since joining Twitter, Edward Snowden is more active than ever. In his latest revelation, the whistleblower has claimed that the British intelligence agency (GCHQ) obtained a massive amount of communication data that was travelling through Pakistan in its search for terrorists. This identification spree from the Britain involved hacking into routers of users back in Pakistan, […]
Former NSA spy Edward Snowden may have exposed the government’s surveillance program around the world, but it didn’t change the way security agencies spy on its citizens. A group of activists from Intelexit decided to protest against the National Security Agency office at the Dagger Complex (a U.S. military installation) in the south of Frankfurt, Germany by sending […]
Spotify wanted to collect everything that you don’t want to share with strangers and that includes your personal photos. The Internet is overflowing with the reports about a music streaming service – Spotify, who has revealed an updated version of its privacy policy created an online counterattack against the service provider. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/stolen-accounts-bogus-nypd-badges-dark-web-market/”]Stolen Accounts, Spotify […]
After momentary calmness, the Pentagon has planned to double the number of U.S. drone flights by 2019. This increment would help military chiefs with an increased access to the intelligence while improving their firepower. This bold step has raised concerns about the forthcoming military drone strikes. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/surveillance-drones-now-being-deployed-on-german-railway-stations/”]This Aerial Assault Drone Can Hack Computers Inside […]
Aran Khanna, a Harvard student, was deprived of a chance to intern at Facebook after he exposed a critical privacy related flaw in the social network’s Messenger service in one of his creations. Khanna released a Chrome extension in May called Marauder’s Map, which showed the location of your friends using the location data. This […]
Facial recognition software is cropping up everywhere, so it was only a matter of time before anti facial recognition tech started to catch up. Naturally, Japan is leading the way in R&D. That’s right; Japan’s National Institute of Informatics is now developing ‘privacy glasses’ that make human faces unreadable to machines. An earlier (less flattering and […]
A new research conducted by a group of researchers demonstrates how your smartphone and laptop battery can be used to invade your privacy. Actually, your device’s remaining battery power is enough to compromise your privacy. The privacy vulnerability lies within a lesser-known feature of HTML5 known as the Battery Status API, which allows websites to […]
If you have installed Windows 10 and agreed to its terms and conditions during installation then you are being spied on and this is not a conspiracy theory but a fact. Here’s what’s going on and how you can prevent yourself from being spied on. Microsoft’s new service agreement consists of about 12,000 words, which clearly states […]
Mobile spy apps are available at the handful, but you don’t need them that way at all, one good spy app would do wonders and that’s all you need. So let’s talk more about the spy app I want to tell you about; to start off its called Xnspy and it takes monitoring to a […]
Most of you must have heard about Tor, which is one of the renowned network based on onion router, delivers a good amount of anonymity and has become one of the popular software for everyday Internet users, activists and journalists who struggle to avoid restriction imposed by the corporate and government sectors. But what’s missing […]
The most powerful intelligence and spy agency of Pakistan, specifically Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has now planned to tap all the Internet traffic that is entering or travelling through the international undersea cables passing through the country’s southern port city of Karachi. For those of you who don’t know, every government seems to be interested in […]
From instant messaging to apps like WhatsApp and SnapChat, there are plenty of possibilities to chat on the Web, and many social media platforms are already available which allows you to create a chat room for group conversation. Now we have got one more similar but a great option in our list i.e. Hack.Chat, which allows […]
You know it’s easy to download and delete your searches from Google Search, but did you know you can also delete or manage your audio and voice activity on Google? Whenever you use Google’s voice search functionality, whether it is Google Voice Search on your Android device for asking questions or Android’s text-to-speech feature for responding […]
Dutch based campaigners are focusing on women’s access to “easy and safe” method to bring an end to pregnancy with the help of drone technology. These drones are named as the “abortion drone”. This Saturday, small drones carrying packages of abortion medication pills were flown from Germany to Poland, a country where women are faced with […]
Nude pictures of more than 700 Aussie females leaked online without their permission or knowledge. An individual hosting the cache in a cloud storage service leaked photographs of over 700 nude or scantily-clad women hailing from Brisbane and adjacent areas without the consent of their owners. Multiple attempts were made by the hacker to retain the […]