With Facebook’s recent high-profile privacy woes, it’s time you seriously think about what information you’re putting out there on the web. These ten tricks from Lifehacker can help keep your private data private and give you some peace of mind.
The summer blockbuster season has officially kicked off with Iron Man 2, an action-packed superhero flick that had the fifth-highest-grossing opening weekend in Hollywood’s history.
Brian J. Hogan, a 21-year-old resident of Redwood City, California actually Found That so called iPhone Prototype and sold that to Gizmodo. Now he regrets not returning the device to its owner, according to a statement provided by his attorney.
Spammers who use cloud computing services beware! The FBI could be knocking down your door anytime, and you’d have no clue you were being tracked. In a case Wired has named “the first publicly acknowledged search warrant benefiting from a suspect’s reliance on cloud computing,” FBI agents quietly got hold of incriminating spreadsheets from diet [...]
It was reported that His Holiness The Dalai Lama has been the victim of hacking for over a year, and he never found out about it until recently. The Chinese spam network GhostNet had targeted the Dalai Lama last year, apparently hacked into his account and were reading his emails between January and November 2009. [...]
Do you think the passwords you use to access your most sensitive data is secure enough? Do you constantly read expert advice advice on using strong passwords but never feel you really need to, because you think your odds of getting hacked are slim? CEO of web company iFusion Labs and Internet standards expert John [...]
A brief breach in Facebook’s privacy shield on Tuesday caused the social networking giant to accidentally reveal the private email addresses of users to the world. This means your email address could be viewed by someone who is not in your friend list. The bug was fixed in 30 minutes, but by then dozens of [...]
The door may also be slamming shut on its bid to conquer the mobile web market in China for Google’s censorship. Mobile operators and handset manufacturers already seem to be turning their backs on the US firm, after it re-routed its Chinese search engine traffic to its Hong Kong site last week to evade Beijing’s [...]
Two months ago, Hillary Clinton (Secretary of State) called on US technology firms for not to support online censorship. “I hope that refusal to support politically motivated censorship will become a trademark characteristic of American technology companies,” Clinton said. “It should be part of our national brand.” Amid a host of trade disputes with China, [...]
A new type of online identification are reportedly being developed by spammers that can identify surfers based on innocuous data about their browser, such as plug-ins, system fonts, and their operating system. This method of identification can create a person’s unique digital fingerprint from a combination of data that separately appear harmless, and it can [...]
So another shocker from the Pwn2Own 2010 hacking contest that’s on going at the moment: hackers Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann were able to come up with a trick that allowed them to break into fully-patched iPhones’ SMS databases, even the messages that were deleted, simply by tricking the owner to visit a “rigged” [...]
The French national thought to be responsible for hacking into President Barack Obama’s Twitter account last year has been arrested by the French Police on a tip-off by the FBI. The hacker who called himself HackerCroll was caught and is now under arrest in the French town of Clermont Ferrand. He also hacked the Twitter [...]
By exploiting an as-yet-unpatched hole in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser, cybercriminals are installing fake antivirus products and malicious back doors on victim’s computers, security companies are warning. On March 9 Microsoft released the first warning of the flaw in the browser, and admitted it had already been exploited in targeted attacks. But now, according to [...]
Security researcher Evgeny Legerov of Intevydis reported a Critical Security Issue which was announced by Mozilla foundation on 22nd March, had been fixed with a new version update 3.6.2. Its now available via automatic self discoverable built-in update.
Internet scams continue to make the world wide web a dangerous place to navigate, and there seems to be no respite from cyberscams from criminals and no shortage of their ingenuity. Just recently, the newspapers reported of another scam whereby people were conned into giving up their Facebook passwords to the scammers. A brand new [...]
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