In reference to the San Bernardino open firing in which a U.S. Federal Judge had pronounce a verdict in favour of the FBI and asked Apple to help the FBI in way possible, to search for any links that the accused killed in the shooting may have with terrorist organisations by breaking through the tough … Read more
Hackers associated with the hackers’ collective ‘Anonymous’, which recently announced that they would be come up with a social networking website to take on the likes of Twitter and Facebook, have announced to launch DDoS or Distributed Denial of Services, often coupled with a Trojan infection, against the Israeli military to raise their voice against … Read more
When Facebook acquired text messaging app WhatsApp back in February 2014, it promised the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it would honor the privacy rights of WhatsApp. The text messaging app made its popularity on respecting the privacy of its users, and that became a concern for WhatsApp and its users around the time of … Read more
Apple’s iOS 9.2.1 rolled out this past week, and was designed to bring bug fixes and patch software vulnerabilities. Among them, Apple’s iOS 9.2.1 update fixed a software vulnerability that has existed within iOS since 2013. The vulnerability would allow malicious hackers “to steal a user’s cookies and, possibly, sensitive information including passwords and credit … Read more
New York and California seem to be joining forces these days to undermine data encryption, but the main reason behind undermining data encryption has to do with winning the war on terrorism. Now, a new report says that there may not be a war to be won because the major terrorism group has its own … Read more
Netflix has steadily grown across the globe and now served 190 countries. Growing by 130 countries just this month, the company is committed to bring all of its service content worldwide, but with recent changes to restrict IP unblocking of geographical locations, they have pretty much made their international service much less enticing. Having unrestricted … Read more
Life on the World Wide Web is all about websites, and websites mandate usernames and passwords when users log in to access their account and personal information, and so online security came to be. How many times have you been told to pick a difficult password that consists of a combination of letters and numbers? … Read more
We cover the importance of encryption quite a bit on our online privacy tutorial, and lately, data encryption has become a huge discussion in politics, with all political candidates, particularly Democratic candidates, having discussions at length about what they would do if elected to the office of President of the United States. Yet and still, … Read more
BlackBerry has a reputation for producing hack-proof or ultra-secure mobile devices, and the company’s newest BlackBerry Priv continues to provide the caliber of security that many have come to know and love (according to the Canadian manufacturer). At the same time, however, you may not know it, but consumer BlackBerry smartphones are not the only … Read more
Google has said that the Play Store, the app store from which all Android users download and purchase installs, is relatively safe – and it is, with the exception of malware-infested apps that rear their ugly head at the Play Store every now and then. Such is the case with 13 apps that Google removed … Read more