Typically, hackers are lucid individuals with definite goals in their minds. But there are some hackers who screw with others’ lives for the sheer fun of it. Such a hacker recently took over a baby monitor in Ohio and started shouting at the baby.
Ever since Edward Snowden’s shocking revelations about NSA, the agency has been at the bitter end of criticisms related to digital security. Bloomberg has now claimed that NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug and exploited it for two years.
Although having very high security, hackers have been found breaching into many systems. So, to protect itself from being hacked, Facebook has built a security-focused framework called ThreatData. It’ll help Facebook investigate, analyze and combat Internet threats.
Ever since Edward Snowden leaked the confidential information of NSA, the agency has been facing enormous allegations every now and then. A new allegation upon NSA is that the agency has been spying on Chinese tech company Huawei’s servers for years.
High profile credit card heists are becoming increasingly common. The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has now revealed the breach of credit cards, alerting numerous banks about it.
Privacy has become a major concern for many people over the last year or so. Addressing that, Secusmart GmbH is soon going to make available the securest BlackBerry handset for a whopping $2770.
Credit card purchases on smartphones can be risky business, leading to credit card theft and other financial exploits. Therefore, MasterCard is now testing a program which will secure smartphone purchases using the location of your handset.
Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) seems ceaselessly adamant on hacking on Western media organization after another. After its recent attacks at Microsoft and Skype, the hacktivist group recently broke into Forbes’ site and made away with user data.