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This New Year, Learn some tips to keep your information secure online!

Ryan Brailsford — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:13:16 +0000

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...

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Smartening up your door since 2014 -Genie Smart Lock promises security and utility

Rebecca Nanda — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:15:25 +0000

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...

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Celebrity nudes hacked; Apple denies to accept the blame; What this means to you?

Mahalakshmi Kabilan — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:11:15 +0000

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...

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Privacy now means privacy-nothing more, nothing less! ProtonMail is the new security guard’s name.

Rebecca Nanda — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:58:18 +0000

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...

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How safe are you in the Cloud? – Few Tips to Protect your critical data

Amirtha — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 11:23:21 +0000

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...

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Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect to protect Korean Border

Amirtha — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:27:13 +0000

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...

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“Your data can be viewed by third party”, says Barrack Obama

Shiva Subramanian — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 04:51:57 +0000

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...

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Silent Circle and Geeksphone partner to produce Blackphone that aims for more security!

Mahalakshmi Kabilan — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 11:41:34 +0000

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...

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Pulling at the Heart Strings: Phishing Gets Emotional

Mahalakshmi Kabilan — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 08:37:16 +0000

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...

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Will 2014 be the Year of Mobile Device Security?

Amirtha — Sat, 04 Jan 2014 13:45:44 +0000

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...

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