A court has given Facebook 48 hours to stop tracking people in Belgium who are not members of its social network. Facebook says it will appeal against the decision andRead More →
Just two days after Halloween, Activision’s spending a whole lot of money on candy—the publisher announced tonight that they’ve bought Candy Crush developer King for $5.9 billion. Yes, that’s BILLION. TheRead More →
Facebook’s is always changing and its team is adding new functionality every couple of months. With new changes there are chances of affecting security and introducing vulnerabilities explains an informationRead More →
Timing attacks are an interesting part of computer security. As an extreme example, imagine that your computer took one second to verify each character in your login password. And nowRead More →
Snapchat’s new term and conditions have resulted in outrage from its users and twitter has been flooded with tweets from users rejecting company’s new terms and conditions. Snapchat is oneRead More →
A laptop filled with data? An external HDD filled with even more data? There’s bound to be a phone – possibly two if you spend a lot of time inRead More →
In the wake of the TalkTalk Scandal, Vodafone finally admitted that hackers did manage to steal around 20,000 Vodafone customers’ bank details. According to the Mobile Phone provider firm, hackersRead More →
My last on-topic post pontificated about the dangers and surprise of letting third parties into your house or codebase, where I discussed the addition of a TV DVR system to myRead More →
Have you ever shared links to Google Search results before? If you have, you may have noticed that the url pointing to the search results page contains several other parametersRead More →
US Army Military experts urge the establishment of an Army Vulnerability Response Program (AVRP), a sort of military bug bounty program. What happen when bug hunters have to work with high sensitiveRead More →
Timing attacks has proven practical since 96′ as shown in a paper by Paul C. Kocher. In his paper Paul demonstrate how, by effectively measuring the amount of time requiredRead More →
Does your Chrome browser seem a little “off”, but you can’t figure out why? Maybe it’s eFast. Here’s another reason to slow down when installing software, especially free software. ARead More →
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has stated that it’s completely fine to pay ransom to cyber criminals. If you are a fan of Hollywood movies you may be familiar withRead More →
Despite its controversial nature, the US Senate has passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA). Detractors are concerned because CISA would open up an information exchange between the public andRead More →
The deputy director of the US National Security Agency (NSA), Richard Ledgett, has warned of the increasing danger of destructive cyber attacks by states. He told the BBC: “If youRead More →
A recent network forensic examination of popular messaging service WhatsApp is offering new details on the data that can be collected from the app’s network from its new calling feature:Read More →
Unlike other body parts, heart tissues are incapable of seal-healing once damaged. Fortunately, the scientific community continue to hack modern technology into solving life’s most complex health problems. Conventional 3DRead More →
The fear of malicious actors taking control of glaring flaws in smart cars is on the rise. This threat is therefore considered to be one of the major technical challengesRead More →
For those who seek privacy while working online, you now have a solution in “Warble,” an Anonymous calling app for Android, iOS and Windows OS. Warble is an app developedRead More →
All users of the Linux 4.2 kernel must upgrade It looks like it’s still October 22 in some countries, so Greg Kroah-Hartman announced just a few minutes ago the immediateRead More →
