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It is our duty to protect our data— but are we ready? No one would have thought that the most practical invention of the past decade will be the Smartphone. It is a reality that we cannot live without these devices at all. Smartphones have become a mandatory part of our life since with few […]
Edward Snowden, ex-NSA contractor and the whistleblower about NSA’s massive surveillance dragnets, says the US government can remotely control a targeted cellphone. In an exclusive interview with Brian Williams of NBC News, who interviewed him in Moscow last week, Snowden spoke about some of the revelations made last year and the reason he chose to […]
A majority of Linux distributions are sold by companies, individuals and many non-commercial entities for free on the Internet. And now, it has been officially announced that the notorious Syrian Electronic Army or SEA will launch its private Linux distribution. This will be known as SEANux. The pro-Assad hacking group famous for hacking is now in […]
Windows 10 Technical Preview (TP), a trial version released last week, collects and transmits lots of user data to Microsoft, according to a report published in the Forbes. The daily�referred it as �jaw dropping level of invasion.� Microsoft announces in its privacy policy the kind of information it will be collecting from the users who […]
Romanian hackers used Bash Bug flaw to hackYahoo servers, according to a recent security news update. Jonathan Hall, President of the IT consulting firm, Future South Technologies and a security researcher, has affirmed that a group of Romanian hackers used the Shellshock vulnerability to compromise Yahoo servers, which was also confirmed by Yahoo! Hall said […]
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 […]
If you are not comfortable with the surveillance cameras, an identity replacement technology that is basically a Surveillance identity prosthetic provides you a new face. If you find all people around you having the same face like you saw the agents in Matrix 3, then Leo Selvaggio is the one to thank. He has designed a […]
Users witness looking at pictures of Russian car crash regardless of what they searched on Google Images. If someone searched for ‘cat’ the search result came up with a multiple images of the car crash- speculations were that Google Image search result service was hacked. The finding was originally reported by Time Magazine, while searching for an image of […]
Privacy concerns over the Facebook Chat App is at an all time high. Increasingly more and more people are voicing their concern and even their anger at the permissions needed from the user in order to use the App. Although the App was released some time ago, it wasn’t until Facebook took away end user […]
A common shortcoming that most of the USB devices possess is one which can be noiselessly made use of to introduce infection into computers. This is done in a fashion which prevents detection and this has been concluded by security researchers themselves. Most of the USB thumb drives have a major dilemma like several other […]
Now, the battle waged by both sides also extends to social networks. Israelis and Palestinians are increasingly using sophisticated methods in an attempt to win support on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. While Hamas Guides Palestinians to publish photos of wounded on social networks, Israelhas created an application that simulates what if Gaza were in your country. The […]
Hackers from Hamas military wing in Palestine hacked the satellite communication of the Channel 10 TV station in Israel on Monday for a few minutes. The hackers behind the hack were Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, who took over the satellite broadcast of the TV station and changed the ongoing transmission with images of Palestinian citizens affected and wounded by Israeli […]
Amazon�s new smartphone launch is all set to fire up the smartphone market and is likely to give a hard time to its competitor. Smartphone�s name itself is a sign of how energetic the phone is, as it�s named �FIRE PHONE�. This smartphone has some of the most compelling feature that smartphone buyer would have […]
On 26 June, the day of Armed Forces of Azerbaijan -, Azerbaijani hackers from Anti-Armenian Team hacked and defaced the official website of Armenian President and other government Ministries. Hackers left a deface page along with a video message which includes a speech from the Commander in chief of Armed Forces of Azerbaijan Mr. Ilham Aliyev. […]
German Humanist Union, an independent civil liberties organization, has awarded Snowdenwith the Fritz Bauer Prize for exposing NSA’s controversial surveillance practices. The prize named after Fritz Bauer, a German prosecutor and judge who played an important role in Oswiecim trials of former SS officers, was instituted in 1968 and is given to people who excel […]
We know how drones are used for surveillance, target killings or in some cases to save human lives, but now a South African company known as Desert Wolf told the BBC they have received orders for their riot drone‘’Shunk’’. The drone fires pepper spray bullets at crowds, that can tackle crowds or protesters “without endangering the lives […]
In an exclusive report, we are updating that the official verified Facebook fan page of famous rock band Linkin Park (LP) with 62,616,278 fans (https://www.facebook.com/linkinPark?fref=nf) has been hacked by unknown hackers and spamming vulgar images with links. It seems as if the page was hacked a couple of hours ago where hacker started posting links […]
Brazil recently awarded a USD 4.5 billion deal for new fighter jets to a Swedish company on Wednesday. The deal, which was negotiated over three presidencies, was awarded to Saab, a Sweden-based organization offering products and services ranging from military defense to civil security. There were three contenders to the deal—Chicago-based Boeing and French Dassault […]
WhatsApp, one of the most popular instant messaging services, scaled its highest point recently when it handled more than 64 billion messages in 24 hour period in a day, just weeks after its acquisition by Facebook for a whopping USD 19 billion, according to media reports. Last year, the daily message traffic of the application […]
Researchers warn that the highly popular mobile application WhatsApp cannot be trusted blindly. WhatsApp has been one of the most popular mobile applications when it comes to exchanging messages for free. However, a group of budding security researchers at the University of New Haven in Connecticut, USA allege that WhatsApp could not be trusted with the user’s data. The […]
The password manager, LastPass, allows you to check if the saved sites are affected by the bug through its ‘LastPass Heratbleed Checker. LastPass’s Security Check tells you which sites have updated their certificates, and whether you need to change your password for that site. Image credit: Cnet In the latest attempt to safeguard against the openSSL programming […]