In a bid to help the hopeful candidate for President of the United States, Hillary Clinton, one of her former aides during her stint as the secretary of state has said that Clinton’s email account was not hacked. The New York Times reported that Bryan Pagliano presented security logs to the investigators that showed that … Read more
The US Defence Secretary Mr Ash Carter has invited hackers to hack into their systems to help find any security bugs that might cause problems in the future. Hacking a government entity like FBI, NSA is something that is always a dream for hackers. Some claim to do it always and not get caught, others … Read more
Cuba doesn’t exactly have a track record for being known as one of the world’s leaders in providing Internet access to their citizens. In addition, they have been known for having some of the most restrictive Internet regulations in the world. To top it all off, their Internet infrastructure was largely underdeveloped and they didn’t … Read more
The Hacking team, which is a supplier of surveillance tools and malware to the governments and intelligence agencies globally is speculated to have returned to the global arena. The speculations have become rife after the discovery of an Apple Mac OS X malware sample. For those who don’t remember, the Italian firm in July 2015 … Read more
If you’re a music junkie, you have likely already heard about Spotify – which is similar in nature to Pandora. And just like Pandora, you are going to run into a few problems if you don’t live in a country that has been given the ability to access their service – without a VPN service, … Read more
A nine-month review conducted by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) revealed that the IRS allowed hackers to view account details of over 700,000 U.S. taxpayers through a poorly thought out website feature. The cause of the fact is the new “Get Transcript” function which the IRS implemented on their website in May … Read more
By now I would assume that most of you have heard about, if not use, Pandora. But just to be safe, Pandora is an Internet radio station that exploded in popularity in the blink of an eye. They help provide a service that allows you to essentially build your own music playlists given certain criteria … Read more
The Nissan Leaf electric car’s mobile management APIs may be faulty, and that may allow a hacker in another part of the world to hack and gain control over crucial features like battery charge management and access information, which may be crucial to the customer – this is what security researchers, Troy Hunt and Scott … Read more
South Korea is one of the nations that is most-connected to the Internet in the world. If you have ever seen a map of the 39th parallel at night, you would see that South Korea is lit up like a Christmas tree. They actually have some of the highest Internet penetration rates in the world … Read more
Expect the unexpected. Who would have thought that simple instruments like wireless mice which have successfully helped us to get rid of the issues posed by tiresome and entangled cables and wires could turn out to be potentially dangerous? According to Bastille, a security firm, the wireless mouse can be used to hack computers and … Read more