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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is not happy with Apple and Google for including encryption on their smartphone products, the agency’s director said Thursday. During a meeting with reporters at the HQ, the FBI Director James Comey said he believes that a quick access to a smartphone will let law enforcement save lives in some kidnapping and terrorism cases. […]
Remember when Apple’s iPhone 5S fingerprint sensor or in other words TouchID was hacked? Well history is repeating itself because the Apple TouchID fingerprint security scanner on the new iPhone 6 has been hacked by security researcher with the same method he used for hacking the touchID of iPhone 5S. The difference between now and […]
They call it Shellshock bug, they say it is way more dangerous than the previous Heartbleed bug which left all the secure SSL system vulnerable, but this bug has power to compromise any system and run commands to install malicious softwares on your device or computer. Hackers may already be accessing people’s personal data by exploiting […]
An unknown hacker has hacked and leaked nude pictures of 100+ high profile Hollywood celebrities on Sunday. The nude photos are available on 4chan’s /b/ board. Many of the affected celebrities have confirmed the authenticity of leaked pictures where some call it fake and some have accepted that the leaked images are real. Security experts are […]
Your iPad or iPhone’s camera has become immensely powerful after the emergence of iOS 8 Safari’s new version. Its most astounding feature is that you can use it for scanning your credit card details through camera to make payments online. Ensuing Apple’s WWDC keynote released at the start of this week, various supplementary iOS 8 […]
Tor Browser app in the Apple app store is fake and have been found spreading adware and spywares. According to the official website of Tor Browser, the Browser app available in Apple store on iTunes is fake and has nothing to do with the official version. The developers of Tor said that: Tor Browser in the Apple […]
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 […]
A couple in Shanghai city of China is facing criminal charges for selling their infant daughter on an online forum in order to buy an iPhone. The couple is facing charges for human trafficking after putting their child online for adoption and accepting money to buy newly released iPhone. The investigators have found out that mother […]
A motion has been filed today with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court by the U.S Department of Justice. This motion is basically filed for opposing the Tech companies that want to tell users of such companies that their data is being spied by the government. The government in its briefing to the court has said […]
The following report was taking from an independent news source, original report is available @ National Report. We at HackRead do not take responsibility of authenticity for this news. As technology is getting more and more sophisticated, users are showing more and more concerns about their privacy issue. They want their gadgets to be […]
Since Senator. Al- Franken has become of part of the United States Senate, he has been the Chairman of Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which deals with issues related to Privacy, Technology and the Law. He has been quite clear in his stance which has been to raise and address the questions related to surveillance and technology […]
Yesterday I updated you with NYPD’s activity where it was found running a campaign, asking users to upgrade their iPhone and iPads to newly released iOS7. Now An advert has gone viral, asking Apple users to update their iPhones to newly released iOS 7 in order to make their devices fully waterproof but according to reports […]
The New York Police Department has issued a statement in which users have been asked to update their iPad and iPhone devices from old versions to newly released iOS 7. NYPD was found distributing handouts allover the city, urging Apple users to update their software to iOS 7 for its new ‘Activation Lock’ security feature. […]
Apple has released a customer-privacy statement on Monday about Internet surveillance and PRISM program that it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for user data and information of suspicious account. Most of the request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s […]
A team of security researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found a way by which any iOS device can be hacked within a minute by the help of modified charger. Researchers claim that despite Apple’s exemplary defence system, they were able to injected arbitrary software into one of its devices based on the latest and updated […]
Apple has finally fixed a vulnerability that was alerted about 6 six month back. This vulnerability was found in the iOS app store by Google. But, the interesting fact of the app was that it was reported by the Google’s security researcher, Elie Bursztein, but Apple doesn’t responded to it. This vulnerability could have been exploited over any public WIFI […]
Apple Is now working upon cheaper iPhones, which are said to be sold within the bracket $300 to $400. This particular price is about half as what Apple has set for an iPhone 5. You might be wondering the logic behind this particular invention? Even, though Apple gained massive sales revenue in the year 2012. Well, we […]
Traditional banking could soon become a chapter of past. With e banking making a progress with each passing day and lot more people entering into it. Over the last few years people have moved a lot from traditional banking system to e-banking systems. Paypal has been leading the e-bank and is been growing with precision. […]
Apple, google, facebook and Amazon have now become technology giants and their war for grabbing the highest market share is getting fierce with each passing day. All these brands, though, might not have identical products, but they all somehow have some relation in their products. Amazon and Google are one of the closest competitors among […]
Apple has been in news with concerns over it’s products since it’s iPhone 5 launch. But, those news aren’t the ones to be much concerned of for the team Apple. However, the recent news regarding Apple updated maps are much to concerned of for the team Apple. Apple launched it’s updated maps during September this year after […]
The release of Apple iPad 4 is not a generation of a new idea or something like it in the world of iPad but a way of consoling the angry Apple fan who were in serious anger by the launch of Apple’s third generation iPad. But according to the critics the fourth generation of iPad […]