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CyberGhost Privacy Accelerator Program Offers €100,000 if You Can Make Web a Secure Place

“How Government secretly read your e-mails with this insane law?“ “Snowden’s Revelations: XKEYSCORE is NSA’s search engine.” “Real-Time Cyber Attacks across the globe. ““NSA’s Privacy Breach: Coming through your front door this time.”These are just a few examples to remind you that you and your network are not as safe as you would wish to be. CyberGhost […]

Is Anonymous Trying to Create its own Social Network?

Facebook’s current rival apparently being backed by the famous hacker group Anonymous. A new social network is hoping to surpass Facebook and other prominent social media giants in popularity, which is not news at all. However, the fact that this new social network is being backed by none other than the online hacktivist Anonymous is definitely big […]

Good News for Wikipedia Readers- Encrypted Connections Coming Soon

Awesome News for Wikipedia Readers- Encrypted Connections Coming Your Way Pretty Soon. Currently, data between users and Wikipedia.com is unencrypted, and this increases the chances of being spied upon. However, now this scenario will be changed pretty soon. The Wikipedia Foundation announced on Friday that it is going to move its websites towards HTTPS by default […]

Hacker Targets Pedophiles with TOX Ransomware

Tox is yet another example of cyber justice that has been meted out by cyber criminals.  In this case, Tox sends a file named “hot pics” to locations which are generally visited by individuals looking for child pornography. According to the developer, Tox has infected more than 1,000 users. The TOX ransomware includes file encryption that […]

Apple, Google’s Encryption helping ISIS, Encouraging Terrorism- FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation believes that Apple and Google are actually helping ISIS and encouraging terrorism by offering users encrypted communications. A senior FBI official Michael Steinbach stated at the House Homeland Security Committee in Congress that Apple and Google are actually encouraging terrorism by providing encrypted communication facility and US law should immediately […]

Facebook Adding PGP Encryption to Prevent Email Hacks

The feature of adding OpenPGP public keys to profiles is launched by Facebook to prevent your notification emails from prying eyes of hackers. Facebook has added a new feature for the convenience of its users. Reportedly, this new feature will allow users to add an encryption key to their accounts for securing their email notifications. […]

6 Ways to Secure a Wireless Wi-Fi Network

Wireless Networking (Wi-Fi) has made it so easy for anyone to use Internet on your computer, mobile phones, tablets and other wireless devices anywhere in the house without the clutter of cables.  With traditional wired networks, it is extremely difficult for someone to steal your bandwidth but the big problem with wireless signals is that […]

Seemingly Legit Resume actually contains Crypto-Malware

The malicious email, targeted at a company’s resume screening department, is equipped with file encryption capabilities. A new ransomware having capabilities of file encryption is being flung at the company workers that perform resume screening for job seekers. This malware is distributed through a short and precise email message that appears legitimate and informs about […]

FBI Wants Tech Companies to Disable Default Smartphone Encryption

Encryption should be Outlawed – FBI Retracts Support to Further Weaken Our Security. In the past when Apple started encrypting its iPhone by default, the step was lauded by the FBI as it ensured enhanced security. However, the FBI has revoked its support and now maintains that encryption of this type needs to be outlawed, […]