Online security has become a hot issue this Christmas. With news of the recent Sony hacking scandal, a lot of people are questioning whether there is anything more they can do to keep their online information safe. The internet is constantly becoming a bigger part of our lives, with almost…
I am sure each one of us had an experience of being locked out of our place once in this lifetime. We have also been partakers of the drama which follows this incidence – find the locksmith, hours of waiting at the next door neighbor’s place (that is, if your…
And the last long weekend was not good for the famous women around! There was a massive online leak of alleged personal pictures pulled from the iCloud. The hacked celebrity list include Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Selena Gomez, Rihanna, Lea Michele, Kirstin Dunst, Avril Lavigne and many others. While some of the pictures are authentic(identified…
Privacy is a much sought-after celebrity. I call it a celebrity as its sightings are as rare as a celebrity is in real life as compared to reel. We all seek it, but none actually gets it. So once, one is assured (or, rather, duped) by the privacy policy stated…
It is pretty tough to imagine today’s information technology without the cloud storage. It has come to a time where even little children have their own online storage spaces to store their school materials. Therefore, it is needless to say that businesses use cloud storage generously. A majority of these…
Xbox Kinect is the one device that every household of a gamer has (or at least in the wish-list.) The Kinect sensor is supposedly one of them most efficient and convenient implemented technology that allows you to play hands-free. This movement-recognition software developed by Microsoft doesn’t seem to only attract…
The NSA are hitting headlines with their activity and it looks like they won’t stop at nothing. They want everything. From where you live to how you were born, they need all these personal details. The NSA (National Security Agency), according to Wikipedia, is the main producer and processor of…
Wanted to have a mobile that puts privacy and control at first place?! Here is good news for you from Silent Circle and Geeksphone, who have partnered to produce and offer you PrivatOS which is an Android based operating system. The device is termed – Blackphone and this will be “the world’s…
A week before Christmas of 2013, hackers stole financial information from 40 million Target customers. As soon as the retail giant discovered the security breach, Target sent its customers an email explaining the situation. Within twenty-four hours, according to MarketWatch, phishers jumped into the madness with a phishing email. Designed…
What kind of security prevails in your mobile? You have facilities to unlock your screen using a password, a PIN, a pattern. Some mobile devices have gone ahead to rely on the front camera’s resolution to enable user photo authentication. (Although this feature is not as secure as the other…
Why is encryption so important?! The internet is vulnerable and by enabling various encryption technologies, the service providers can make backdoor surveillance and hacking a more challenging task! For every website it is better to start encryption with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) by default. By doing this, whenever a user…
GTA V is an excellent game and yes the game created a sensation. But its really sad that the PC version is not available yet. So what can people do? Just play the game online?! Yeah, thats a good alternate, but its not enough for us and we can confirm…
We often forget passwords! Just think of the situation if the forget password service is not present! OMG! Much is discussed about the traditional password and now other alternatives are looked upon like the One Ring from Google. Although many type of biometric sensors have come up, researchers from UC…
The developer, Nir Goldshlager, has found a security flaw in Facebook that could have allowed real hackers get into the full Facebook user profiles. Facebook users don’t get panic. Facebook has already fixed the issue. Developer Nir Goldshlager has written a blog post on how he managed to find out this security flaw in Facebook….
Messages have been spreading on Facebook that the social network will be closed between February 29th and February 31st, 2013. May be its true as you won’t be able to log into Facebook (or even Twitter) on February 29th, February 30th or February 31st this year. Apparently comical as these…
The world’s biggest online retailer TicketMaster dumped CAPTCHA to make their service more user friendly. According to the reports, the company will anti-spamming system developed by Solve Media. Ticketmaster claims that CAPTCHA shows up nonsensical words that are hard to make out. Instead the new anti-bot of ticketmaster presents, questions…
The average internet user has 25 online accounts and 6.5 different passwords, according to Microsoft data. It’s nearly impossible to track the number of scammers and victims online, but it seems to be in the bagillions. Citizens are getting our identities stolen, our online bank accounts accessed, and our lives…
A new Internet Explorer vulnerability has been discovered which could be used by an attacker to track your mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, even if the browser isn’t being actively used. This security hole was discovered by the spider.io and was disclosed to Microsoft. Even-though Microsoft Security Research Center has acknowledged…
Anyone could tweet in your name by just knowing your mobile number which is associated with the Twitter account!.And you would know and never will be alerted too! Seems very straight forward isn’t it? A team of security researchers have discovered this security hole. Same was found with sites like Facebook and…