On Monday morning, Google has been the victim of a cyber-attack. Defacement attack was launched by Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE, their Kenyan domain google.co.ke was defaced, instead the page splayed a black background€™ stamped in red across it. When a user visited the page the hacked screen spiraled in as some foreign music played in […]
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Chinese hackers defaced the website of the government owned Philippines News Agency (PNA) Defaced page of the website was with the Chinese flag and the text: “China Hacker EvilShadow Team, We are evil shadow. We are the team. We have our own dignity China Hacker Lxxker.” The hackers shared news of the attack on Facebook. […]
During an internal event at Intuit, Intuit chairman and Apple board member Bill Campbell discussed with Intuit CEO Brad Smith his thoughts about the start of a more intimate tech era, as well as his thoughts on a couple of recent events in the tech industry. Campbell is renown in the […]
An apocryphal story from North Korea is that the next thing a child is taught in school after the late dictator Kim Il-sung’s interpretation of Marxism-Leninism is computers. The best ones among them, according to reports that have appeared in CNN.com and Canadian daily Macleans, are picked to train themselves in the art of hacking, […]
More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC are at risk vulnerable to many security and privacy issue. The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing the software on its Android- and Windows based phones in ways that let third-party applications install software that could steal personal information. The vulnerabilities […]
Concerns over a possible Google privacy issue have emerged as an Australian app developer discovered he had access to the personal information of users who downloaded his Android app in Google Play. Developer Dan Nolan wrote a blog post describing how he found a treasure trove of personal information such as email and mailing addresses […]
Riot, or Rapid Information Overlay Technology http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1dgoQJAt6Y&width=500&height=350 A multinational security firm has secretly developed software capable of tracking people’s movements and predicting future behaviour by mining data from social networking websites. A video obtained by the Guardian reveals how an “extreme-scale analytics” system created by Raytheon, the world’s fifth largest defence contractor, can gather vast […]
Another year comes to an end but not without leaving a trail of security issues and concerns. This year also saw a shift in the trend and distribution of malware. The rise in smartphones has essentially turned them into a fundamental objective for cybercriminals, who have started to target these devices at a […]
Facebook Inc began rolling out a variety of new privacy controls on Wednesday, the company’s latest effort to address user concerns about who can see their personal information on the world’s largest social network. New tools introduced on Wednesday will make it easier for Facebook’s members to quickly determine who can view the photos, […]