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It’s The Weekend…Update Your Antivirus Software
News September 18, 2015
For some reason, very few people count installing an update as one of the highlights of their day, despite the rush this week to load iOS 9 on Apple mobile devices. It’s mildly time consuming, at worst, but it interferes with the stuff we want to do at that... Read more
GCHQ Password Guidance: Can You Trust It?
NewsPrivacy and Security September 18, 2015
GCHQ, the UK government spy agency have recommended that people use simpler, easy to remember passwords, suggest banning password strength meters and regular password changes. But can you trust security advice that comes from the same people who were found to be unlawfully conducting mass surveillance against its own... Read more
Hackers Decrypt 11 Million Ashley Madison Passwords
News September 14, 2015
Decryption of 11 million Ashley Madison passwords by hobbyist hackers brings more woe to Ashley Madison.com users. Stolen password data was thought to be secure; shock, horror, surpriseâŠit wasnât. But just how much are Ashley Madison themselves responsible for using simple and easy to break passwords? Itâs the data... Read more
John McAfee Announces Run For President
News September 10, 2015
Just when you thought the US Presidential election couldnât get more surreal than it already is, everyoneâs favorite self-labelled âeccentric millionaire,â John McAfee has announced his bid for President of the United States of America. No, really, he has. McAfee told Wired.com: âI have many thousands of emails saying... Read more
Adult Player Porn App Takes Secret Photos Of Users, Holds Them To Ransom
News September 8, 2015
Android Adult Player porn app entices users with explicit images but instead takes photos using smartphoneâs front camera, locking the device and then holding users to ransom. In this latest example of âRansomware,â the Adult Player app seems  legitimate enough to begin with. Unfortunately this particular porn app for... Read more
US Considers Sanctions Against China For Alleged Cybertheft Activity
News September 3, 2015
The Washington Postâs Ellen Nakashima has reported that the Obama administration are planning a series of âunprecedented economic sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals,â who have gained from the Chinese governmentâs cybertheft of âUS trade secrets.â The news has surfaced just weeks before the Chinese Premier, Xi Jinping, visits... Read more
Tor, Ghostery Give You Control Over Your Browsing Privacy
InternetPrivacy and SecuritySoftware Reviews September 1, 2015
Privacy is a hot topic right now, with the numbers of large-scale hacking events and major data breaches on the rise. One of the chief concerns for tech users of any kind is the tracking of their internet activity, especially with breaches that have recently involved membership accounts on... Read more
Suicides And Extortion Linked To Ashley Madison Data Hack.
News August 28, 2015
Two people in Canada with personal information allegedly associated with the Ashley Madison Data Hack are reported to have committed suicide as a result of the leak from the adultery website. Toronto policeâs acting staff Superintendent, Bryce Evans, said on Monday morning, that while the deaths were as yet unconfirmed,... Read more
News updates on the fallout of the AshleyMadison.com hacking have slowly trickled out. News broke of the breach even before the hacktivists at Impact Team actually did anything with the information, meaning the public was made aware of the potential problem long before the data dump became a reality.... Read more
Hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, have posted 9.7 gigabytes of stolen customer details from AshleyMadison.com online for all to see. The sensitive customer information was uploaded on Tuesday, and was initially only available via the anonymising Tor Web Browser. Enterprising coders have since created websites that make it... Read more
Russian hackers with ties to the government have been using day zero exploits on Adobe Flash and Windows to gain access to crucial information on other governments, including the US, and potentially sending the information back to the Kremlin. In a report from security firm FireEyeâthe same team that... Read more
Cybersecurity Report: Elite Hackers, Or Human Error?
News April 15, 2015
Two new cybersecurity reports were released this week and they brought some surprising news: hackers don’t have to be great at what they do… employees do the hard work of infiltrating a network for them. The reports–conducted separately by Verizon Communications and Symantec–showed that the biggest threat to business... Read more
A team of hackers that have claimed to be from the “Lizard Squad – Official Cyber Caliphate” group have attacked Malaysia Airlines official website. The homepage of the national carrier was showing, for a time, an image of a lizard wearing a tuxedo and a top hat. Officials at... Read more
US Military Twitter Account Hacked
InternetNewsSocial Media January 16, 2015
Both the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the United States military command were recently suspended for hours following a hack by a group claiming to back Islamic State. A message on Centcom’s Twitter feed said: “American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back.â The message was signed by ISIS,... Read more
Anonymous Begin âOperation Charlie Hebdo’
Internet January 14, 2015
The group of hackers known as Anonymous have declared a war on Islamic extremists after the attack on Paris-based satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo last Wednesday. Anonymous, announced their operation, codenamed #OpCharlieHebdo, on Wednesday after the attack took place. A Twitter account with the same codename, @OpCharlieHebdo, shared a video... Read more
Staples: The Latest Major Retailer Hacked
NewsPrivacy and Security December 30, 2014
2014 has not been a good year for retailers. Every month it seems, another store is reporting that they’ve been hacked and that a ton of their customer’s personal information could have been leaked out to hackers. Earlier this year it was Target reporting that their POS system had... Read more
Hacking is becoming more high profile and more and more prolific. On Monday of this week, Sony’s online PlayStation store was hacked wide open by a group called Lizard Squad. When any visitor navigated to the site they were are greeted with a message which read “Page Not Found! It’s... Read more
Sony Pictures Hacked
Internet November 30, 2014
Hacking appears to be news on a daily basis. Hackers are in every town in every country. The latest victim in the war on cybercriminals is Sony Pictures. The technology firm did not respond to any requests for comment this week, but they have confirmed they have experienced a... Read more