Tag: hacking
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Browser Flaw Shows The Country You’re In
One of the big problems cited by critics of popular sites online is just how much of your location information is broadcast out online. Not only do mobile phones and social media apps leak your location to the internet, but also websites do too, according to new research out of the University of Singapore. The…
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More NSA Docs Reveal Botnet Hijacking
Der Spiegel’s recent flurry of Snowden documents have been causing somewhat of a paranoid uproar in the etch community. As the various American security services demand that big companies not let the public have access to industry level encryption, we learn that the NSA have the ability to turn vast botnets from hostile hackers to…
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Group Behind PSN Hack Under Attack
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Lizard Squad, the group behind the most recent hacking escapade which brought down Xbox Live and the Playstation network over Christmas, has thankfully suffered a number of critical setbacks from both rival hackers and law enforcement in several countries. As per usual with notorious members of the hacking crowd, the reign of Lizard Squad as…
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Sony Offering Gifts Following PSN Outage
Sony had a tricky 2014 in terms of hacking, and now in the new year the company is set to offer some incentives for Sony PlayStation Network users unable to get on the gaming social service over the holiday period. Hackers took down the network fairly easily over the holidays, preventing access for users trying…
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NFC Pay System CurrentC Hacked Already
Here’s another cautionary tale from the tech industry, especially for the slew of up and coming startups and companies involved in the NFC payment business that’s set to explode in early 2015 (along with just about every other new tech phenomenon, it’s been a busy 5 years). SEE ALSO: Naim Launches the mu-so its First…
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Chinese Govt. Allegedly Attacks iCloud
Well, it’s not a big surprise that following a massive launch of the iPhone 6 in China that there’s been a little bit of a problem between Apple’s iCloud and Chinese hackers. The device was released in China en masse last week. It’s not clear who orchestrated the attack on iCloud, with Great Fire, an…
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SnapChat: Beware Third Party Apps
SnapChat themselves have now responded to ‘The Snappening’, the leaking of 200,000 images from an archive site called SnapSaved after a hacking attack on the site. The hack was allowed to take place due to issues with the server the site was stored on. Of course, the actual SnapChat app wasn’t affected at all by…
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USB Security Exploit Posted Online
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Back in the Summer we reported a critical flaw in tech products which allowed hackers to disguise the device as critical computer components, such as network cards or a keyboard, in order to carry out commands to compromise security and install viruses on the host computer. SEE ALSO: BBC iPlayer Streaming Now Extended to 30…
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Google and Dropbox Increasing Security
You might have read our report on the increasing of security by Google on Android L, automatically encrypting user personal information and restricting access to pictures, emails and other personal correspondence without a password. In an additional initiative to prevent hacking by shady individuals as well as the intrusion into user data by government agencies,…
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Hackers Post Millions of Stolen Gmail Passwords Online, You’re Probably Fine
Several tech blogs on Wednesday reported that hackers have leaked some 5 million stolen Gmail passwords to a Russian forum. They were part right. The hackers have leaked some 5 million stolen passwords to a Russian forum, each with an associated Gmail address. The reason it isn’t quite true though is that the passwords could…
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Microsoft: Support is Ending for IE8, IE9, IE10
Microsoft’s historic ending of support for Windows XP generated headlines the world over, sparking Y2K like concerns over instant virus attacks on the day the company stopped giving technical help and updates to users. Thankfully, it wasn’t as bad as expected, but now it seems there’s a whole new issue to worry about, well, with…
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Vodafone Drops Eavesdropping Bombshell to Customers
In a recently released 40,000 word document on customer privacy, transparency with regards to governments and other general personal information security, Vodafone have confirmed that some of the countries in which they operate are at liberty to eavesdrop on phone calls without notifying Vodafone. In other words, governments, secret police agencies or any other organisations…