Mar 20
The Syrian Electronic Army is known for their Twitter-hacking exploits, sometimes also going after the websites of various media agencies. Earlier this year, the SEA targeted Microsoft’s Twitter account and … Continue reading
Mar 20
Imagine you’re walking around, enjoying the early spring sunshine, and looking for a Wi-Fi network. You hear a whirring sound above you, look up, and there’s a drone, just chilling. Did that drone just take your picture? Nah. It just stole all the precious passwords from your smartphone.
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Mar 20
Good news, security lovers! Google just announced that Gmail will be all encrypted all the time. More specifically, every single email you send or receive will use an encrypted HTTPS connection, regardless of which device you’re using and which network. Even public Wi-Fi is okay.
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Mar 20
Forget infected USB sticks and complex card skimmers: sometimes, the low-tech solutions work just as well. Now, a team of crooks from Salford, UK, has used a simple old tunnel to steal cash from an ATM.
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Mar 19
Tech giants in the US were not as innocent, or at least not as ignorant, as they claim. This was the revelation dropped by NSA general counsel Rajesh De appearing … Continue reading
Mar 19
Twitter has decided to stop work on a project to encrypt its users’ direct messages. The project would have helped ensure user messages sent in private would remain that away, … Continue reading
Mar 19
One of EA Games’ servers has been infiltrated by hackers who are using it to run an Apple ID phishing website. The information was revealed by the folks at Netcraft, … Continue reading
Mar 19
The UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, today dipped into his pocket and displayed a new 12-sided £1 coin, the coin’s first redesign in 30 years. It is, supposedly, the world’s most secure coin.
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Mar 18
The latest Snowden-leaked information on the NSA arrived today by way of The Washington Post, where it detailed what is said to be a surveillance system capable of recording 100-percent … Continue reading
Mar 18
Remember all that business about the NSA saying it only collects phone metadata? Yeah, that’s not true. Not only can the NSA listen in on foreigners’ phone calls. It can record "every single" conversation in an entire country and store the recordings for 30 days at a time, a new Washington Post report reveals.
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