All the stories tagged with security
A Security Prescription for the Holiday Shopping Season
11/21/2012, In anticipation of a greater holiday season this year, many retailers are now kicking off their sales a few days early. According to the National Retail Federation, consumers are expected to spend about 4.1 percent more this holiday season than [...]
Skype security flaw lets hackers claim ownership of account using email address [Updated]
11/14/2012, Update: Skype has informed us that the security flaw is now resolved and that the password reset process has been updated accordingly. Check out Skype’s official statement after the break. Skype users have something to worry about. Russian hackers found [...]
Teen hacker sentenced to six years of supervised Internet access
11/09/2012, A hacker from a group called UG Nazi was sentence in Long Beach, California on Wednesday. Going under the moniker “Cosmo” or “Cosmo the God,” the 15-year old pleaded guilty to multiple felonies including credit card fraud, identity theft, bomb [...]
SEAL Team Six members reportedly punished for their role as video game consultants
11/09/2012, SEAL Team Six – America’s elite force and counter-terrorism group is under fire. According to CBS, about seven SEAL Team Six members were reportedly disciplined for their role as consultants for a video game. The seven members, who are still [...]
Twitter resetting passwords due to alleged security threat
11/08/2012, If you are receiving an email from Twitter prompting you to change your password, then it’s probably best to heed what the company is saying. After all, it’s better to be safe than to compromise. For some reason, Twitter has [...]
Android 2.3 Gingerbread is the most commonly attacked OS, says report
11/06/2012, According to Kaspersky Lab, a Russian computer security company, around 28 percent of all attacked mobile devices run Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread. In a detailed report published by the company last week, it also revealed that Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich was the [...]
Russian cybercrime market is well-established, says report
11/05/2012, In a report entitled “Russian Underground 101,” Japanese security software company Trend Micro claims that the cybercrime market in Russia is getting more commercial than ever, with hackers offering services for a price. Using data gathered from online forums and [...]
Facebook gets serious in educating its new users
11/02/2012, Facebook is a phenomenon. Since it launched in 2004, the insanely-popular social networking service has amassed a total number of one billion users, and that number continues to grow as of this writing. So it would make a lot of [...]
Google Play has 290,000 suspicious apps, says security firm
11/01/2012, Advanced threat protection company Bit9 tested approximately 412,000 apps on Google Play and claims that 290,000 of them are questionable and suspicious because they can access a user’s personal information. Although these apps aren’t really malware in nature, Bit9 adds [...]
Pentagon will continue to use BlackBerry phones
10/31/2012, In spite of an era that is dominated by iPhone 5s, Galaxy smartphones, and Nexus devices, Research In Motion continues to prove its reliability in terms of security, at least to the Pentagon. The Pentagon, the heart of America’s security [...]
1M Facebook User Emails Allegedly Purchased For… $5
10/26/2012, Bogonil Shopov, a Bulgarian blogger, says that he has managed to purchase 1 million Facebook users for a mere $5 – a pittance for email marketers and spammers. The data was sold on a site called “Gigabucks”, and so far, [...]
World War 2 inspired cipher to secure your emails
10/11/2012, Who would have thought of marrying knowledge from more than 60 years ago with modern communications – through the clever implementation of an unbreakable cipher from World War 2 into emails. The Vernam cipher was developed all the way back [...]
Twitter security flaw allows for brute-force password discovery
10/01/2012, Here’s how the current security ecosystem works: benevolent or malevolent security experts find a vulnerability, the tech press covers it, users get upset, and the vulnerability is patched quickly. Today, a key Twitter vulnerability has been made public, and we’d [...]
