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Security researchers from University of Michigan and the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have found out a security flaw in Android, Windows, and iOS platforms allowing malicious apps to steal personal information from a smartphone. At the moment the flaw has only been tested on Android phones, but the team is sure […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin has said that Internet is a CIA project and Russians should be careful while making Google searches. While speaking to a group of emerging journalists during a television event on Thursdays, Putin said that Internet was developed by the Central Intelligence Agency as a ‘’special project’’, reported by AFP News. While […]
Google’s latest update on Monday only highlights how apathetic they are to the privacy of their users and consider every bit of data transmitted through their services (Google plus, YouTube) as part of ‘fair game.’ The ‘fair game’ constitutes, “When you upload, or otherwise submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, […]
The hardcore supporter of Syrian President Bashar Al Assad and the online hacktavist Syrian Electronic Army has made an attempt to hack a number of high profile websites-including Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook and Google-by hacking into the domain management service provider MarkMonitor. It seems as if MarkMonitor was able to block Syrian hackers from causing huge […]
Google has apologized for mistakenly listing the Berlin intersection as Adolf-Hitler-Platz, a mistake that was corrected only after a few days. The mistake could be attributed to Google Maps’ openness that allows anyone to suggest changes; however, there are volunteer moderators or editors on board that review and then approve any suggested changes. On January […]
A UK citizen has sued Microsoft for leaking PRISM private data to the NSA. A UK court will be carrying out an action trail for a case that has been filed by a British Citizen. The reason is that the private data of a UK citizen has been leaked or given to NSA by Microsoft. Now the court […]
Kevin Barrera was murdered at age 14 in 2009 in Richmond, California. In 2013, however, his death took on new proportions after his father, Jose Barreras, found the image of the crime scene in Google Maps. In the image, which is still available on Google Maps, you can see a police car, a body and, by all […]
An emotional Google Search advertisement has become a massive hit in both India and Pakistan, talking about a reunion of two best friends, now elderly men, who lived together before sub-continent’s partition in 1947 from the old British empire. The Google Search Reunion ad shows how the two friends were able to meet each other after more […]
Brazilian authorities have accused Google of spying over their country’s streets. According to the authorities, Google since the launch of it’s street view application have gathered a large quantity of data that can be used for spying. This is not the first time Google has been reported for such an act recently EU authorities too […]
A Turkish hacker going with the handle of Misafir has hacked and defaced official Google Bolivia domain on 30th Oct 2013 along with 7 other Google domains such as Google Translator, Maps, SMS, News, ID, Labs and Google Images domain. Misafir left a deface page along with a message on all defaced Google domains, expressed […]
According to a recent report, National Security Agency (NSA) has infiltrated into the communication links that are present between global data centers of Yahoo and Google. This revelation has been made by a document that has been released by the whistle blower Edward Snowden. By penetrating into those links, it has allowed the agency to […]
Pakistani hacker h4x0r HuSsY from TeaM MADLEETS has hacked and defaced the official Google Video Costa Rica domain just few hours ago. The hacker left his deface page along with a message on the hacked Google Video Costa Rica domain which shows that hack was more likely done as a result of a personal dispute between TeaM MADLEETS […]
In a high profile hack, a famous Pakistani hacker going with the handle of H4x0r HuSsY from MadLeets hacking crew has hacked and defaced four (4) domains of Google Malaysia including Google Mobile, two domains of Google Images and Google Plus. All domains were left with deface pages along with messages, displaying show of […]
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 […]
A Pakistani hacktivist group going with the handle of Team Madleets have hacked and defaced five (5) official Google domains designated for Republic of Burundi few minutes ago. The defaced domains include 3 Google Search Engine domains, Google Images and Google Translator. All domains were defaced by three different hackers from Team Madleets going with the handle […]
Michael Hayden who is the former director of CIA and NSA gave a speech at the educational forum at Saint John’s Episcopal Church this Sunday. The topic of discussions at this forum for adult education was the clash between liberty and security. During his speech, he came up with a surprising statement that terrorists all […]
You can still browse anonymously on the internet and the perception that our emails are being spied is ”wrong”, says Fabio Coelho, Country Director of Google in Brazil. The internet giant was among the companies criticized recently after reports published by British newspaper The Guardian – based on documents leaked by former CIA technician Edward Snowden […]
Youtube, world’s leading video sharing site has been hit by two programmes which are found to be placing ads into the site without permission. Investigations by a security firm spider.io revealed promotions of some videos through these ads. However, some users reported ads directing towards some malware. One of the California’s firm: Sambreel is believed to […]
A very serious flaw has been pointed out in Google Chrome browser that allows any user who has access to a particular computer to see every password stored for social media, email and for any other website. It is through the settings panel in the browser that all the password can be viewed without any encryption. Besides […]
Back in the year 2010, the Breach performed by Chinese hackers that was a part of the operation termed as Operation Aurora allowed them to gain access into a special database of Google. The database contains information about thousands of orders relating to American surveillance targets. Google admitted the infiltration some years ago and mentioned […]
A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Tiger-M@te has hacked and defaced the official website of Google Kenya (www.google.co.ke). Other hacked websites includes Kaspersky, Youtube, MSN, Bing, Dell, Western Union, Linkedin, HP and Microsoft Kenya Hacker left his deface page on Google Kenya and all other hacked websites without explaining any reason, yet hacking Google itself […]