Short Bytes: Some of the most popular computers in the computer history have left a mark behind as one of the most memorable machines the world ever saw. Some of these PCs made a history but could survive the history. Read more and know which computers were the kings of past era. When personal computers were […]
Short Bytes: History of hacking always fascinates us as it tells us about the best hackers from the earlier times. But is not interesting to know that what they did and where they landed up eventually when they got into his unethical field of hacking? Know about the 10 best hackers from the past and […]
Timing attacks are an interesting part of computer security. As an extreme example, imagine that your computer took one second to verify each character in your login password. And now imagine that it stopped checking at the first wrong character, for reasons of efficiency. You could quickly figure out the right password by timing how […]
Short Bytes: By abusing the HTTP policies of your web browser, a security engineer has devised a new technique to sniff the browsing history. Using Sniffly and HSTS timing attack, an arbitrary website can violate the privacy of its users. Read ahead to more about how it’s done in detail. In this article, I’m going […]
Short Bytes: This week, Google is releasing the “single largest software update the world has ever seen”. It has started rolling out patches for fixing the Android hijack bug Stagefright that targeted your phones with a single text. Android users were greeted with a shocking news last week when security researchers told the world about the Android hijack bug […]
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 […]
image: Lifehacker Google now allows you to export and download your entire search history in no time. Last year Google tested a download feature in search history and it appears that this feature is now available for everyone. Some of us might think that what is the need of this feature? But let me remind you, […]
The US Department of Justice has charged three men with what is being described as “one of the largest reported data breaches in US history,”
The U.S Department of Justice announced that there has been the largest data breach in the history of U.S done by two Vietnamese men, one of whom who has pleaded guilty, as they hacked eight U.S email service providers and stole 1 billion email addresses along with other classified information. In a statement given by […]
According to a report by security firm Kaspersky Labs, numerous banks of Russia, the Unites States, Japan and Europe have been the victim of a malware attack since 2013, which has now turned out to become one of the largest bank thefts in history. The concerned report will be made public on Monday by the […]
Malware has come a long way since its earliest days, and aided by the rapid development of the internet it’s certainly faster spreading than the weeks it took in the days of floppy disk transfer.
A couple of weeks ago, the social media giant Facebook announced that in order to serve us with targeted ads – it will starting using our data that it collects from apps. It actually means that Facebook will now use your browsing history to earn money and benefit its advertisers. Today, we are going to help you with how […]
It has been reported by a cyber-security firm that huge number of credentials in the form of a cache are being presented for online sale in the black markets. About 360 million credentials or accounts have been reported to be affected through a series of hacking activities, in which one of them is considered to […]
Trading has been suspended on the Bitcoin exchange Mt Gox and its website has closed, amid rumors that the exchange has lost 744,000 Bitcoins in an online theft – worth around $350 million at Monday’s trading prices, according to Wired
The online hackavist group Anonymous Brazil has asked Brazilians to join them on 7th September 2013, the country’s independence day in one of the biggest protest against politicians and massive corruption. The protest will be conducted under the tag of ‘#OP7‘ in 140 cities especially against group of politicians involved in stealing massive amount of […]