Uber may be one of the most thriving transportation app companies of all, but the company does have its skeletons. Just a few days ago, the taxi app settled with the New York State Attorney General’s office regarding a probe into the company’s God View program that saw the taxi company track the whereabouts of … Read more
Time Warner Cable is now the latest company to have experienced a data breach. The cable company says it was alerted by the FBI about a possible data breach that may have exposed email addresses and account passwords, but the company says that its own server hadn’t been breached and that its customers may be … Read more
Experts have said for years that any cyber attack could cause power outages in the future, but it had yet to be proven. The latest Ukraine power outage, however, has unfortunately been tied to a cyber attack by way of implanted malware, according to computer security firms Trend Micro and iSight Partners. Ukraine power company … Read more
Warner Bros. and Intel (on behalf of daughter company Digital Content Production, or DCP) are suing device maker LegendSky for bypassing 4K digital content protection laws. The lawsuit was filed in New York federal court against the company who has designed new devices known as HDFury integral splitters that allow the devices to bypass HDCP … Read more
Hackers are continuing to hack into gaming sites – but they aren’t playing any games. Online gaming platform Steam was hacked around the time of its holiday sale with a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS), and responded with some measures of its own: a web caching service that would mitigate the 2,000% web traffic … Read more
Apple, known for its privacy with consumers, is speaking out against a new British proposal that would give British spies the right to see what websites are being viewed. The proposal, which would become known as the Investigatory Powers Bill, would allow British intelligence to spy on visited websites in addition to currently allowed spy … Read more
The Juniper backdoor discovered during the company’s own internal audit this past week has left many American citizens in shock as to how a company with such protective firewall SSL VPN technology could be surprised about a backdoor that has been open to exploit for the last 3 years (since 2012). A new document has … Read more
Former lottery security officer Eddie Tipton is out of a job. The former Multi-State Lottery Association Security Director was accused of lottery fraud in July of this year and was arrested for hacking lottery computers to find winning lottery numbers – and afterward, buying the tickets. He won a lottery drawing in 2010 after buying … Read more
Software utility company MacKeeper, known for helping MacBook customers keep their “apples” soft and juicy and well-running, has now leaked 13 million user accounts to the Web in the latest vulnerability. The exposure was discovered by security researcher Chris Vickery, who contacted MacKeeper at the time he discovered the vulnerability. According to MacKeeper, Vickery confirmed … Read more
Mistakes happen, and we live in a world where each individual is imperfect (and thus, will make a mistake every now and then). The problem in some cases, however, is that some individuals make mistakes that have huge impact – with consequences that they either cannot foresee or consequences they can foresee in light of … Read more