As long as you mask your IP address and use encryption with a VPN tunnel, it’s 100% impossible to identify your computer, right? Wrong! Unfortunately, a lot of people assume that just because they’re using a VPN tunnel, they’re perfectly safe, secure, and private. The ugly truth is that there are a lot of other […]
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Mobile devices bring us great convenience, but they also put users at risk by constantly sending user data such as geographical location to the network. Therefore, people who are concerned about privacy and data security may consider mobile devices as a spy tool. Edward Snowden is definitely one of them. When Snowden met with journalists […]
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Apple software has flaws that could give attackers access to passwords by sending only one vicious text message. Apple has a patch for the vulnerabilities, available for download beggining this week. The updates do not install automatically; they have to be downloaded and installed. Cisco Talos, a networking company, discovered the vulnerabilities. According to Craig […]
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Security researcher, Digital Defense Inc., earlier this week warned Dell of some security vulnerabilities in their enterprise software tool. The enterprise software tool accesses firewalls and VPN appliances. If criminals exploited the six vulnerabilities detected by the company, they would gain full access to all systems in business. Dell collaborated with DDI to patch the […]
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Though European users have to use the Internet under the EU’s Data Retention Directive, the United States doesn’t have such invasive data retention laws. But if that’s true, then why do so many US based VPN providers keep some amount of log files, and what’s up with the NSA? Even though the US doesn’t have […]
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Wikileaks recently released emails in a move to respond to the government’s harsh response to coup collaborators. The Wikileaks hack comes soon after releasing the first group of emails sent and received by senior government officials and members of the AKP party. Wikileaks released the emails to counter a purge by the government. The purge […]
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Last week, hackers launched an attack(In Mandarin) on Damai Net, a Chinese website that allows users to purchase show tickets online, and intercepted a large amount of personal information of registered users of the website. The hackers then used the stolen personal information, disguised as the website’s customer services staff, and successfully defrauded nearly 1.5 […]
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Facebook is easily the most popular website in the world, and it traverses geographic boundaries to connect people from all over the world. Unfortunately, it isn’t legal everywhere in the world for a variety of different reasons. You see, social media gives people the unprecedented power to share ideas at an extremely rapid rate. And […]
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OurMine hacking group took credit for the last cyber-attack on Pokémon Go. The group claimed that it did the hack to help make the app more secure and less buggy. OurMine attacked Pokémon Go’s login servers so hard that it was impossible for players to go online while playing the game. OurMine, a famous hacking […]
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A Chinese consortium of Internet companies hoped to buy the Norwegian online browser and advertising company Opera Software, but the deal has failed, Opera said on Monday. According to Opera, the deal failed because certain regulatory approvals were missing, but the company did not specify whose approvals they lacked by a July 15 deadline. The […]
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The misconception seems to be breaking that Linux is not vulnerable to attacks and is totally bulletproof. Today an announcement was made by Canonical declaring that Ubuntu forums were hacked, but their operating system still hasn’t faced any vulnerabilities or weaknesses. Forums are only used by the Linux community to discuss Operating System related developments, […]
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The senior vice president of Google made an announcement on Monday that the accounts of around 4,000 customers are likely being targeted by state-sponsored cyberattackers each month. The sequence of issuing alerts by the Internet giant started back in the year 2012; the warnings are issued to those customers whose accounts show activity of being […]
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If you’re like most people, you probably have a tough time keeping up with the latest developments in home computing technology. Even I.T. professionals have trouble staying up to date and learning all of the latest hardware and technology changes, and it’s their full time job! One common area of confusion among technology consumers seems […]
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Ah, advertising; it’s the bane of every Internet user’s existence. In fact, I think most people would agree that the only time Americans care about ads is during the Super Bowl, when advertisers actually try to entertain their audience. And sure, there are a rare few ads on the Internet that are genuinely funny and […]
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China-based hackers have reduced the number and intensity of attacks on the United States and have instead turned their attention on Russia, according to to a recent report. “Hackers from China are always spying on you.” warned a Russian cybersecurity expert. According to the report released by a cybersecurity company FireEye Inc, since mid-2014 there has […]
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