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UK Phone Giants Providing Full User-Data to Law Enforcement

Three out of four of UK’s mobile phone networks have provided automatic access to police forces. This means police can essentially get customer data like phone call records with a simple mouse click. According to the Guardian, three out of the four major national telecommunications companies are currently participating sharing data through automated systems with […]

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TED Talk – Gleen Greenwald: Why privacy matters

A recent TED talk by Glenn Greenwald has gain some traction in the space of security. The talk entitled “Why privacy matters” covers a very controversial topic “Privacy”. What it means and how it applies to us this day in age and most importantly why it matters. He begins the talk separating people in the […]

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Apple Collecting Spotlight Search Terms – How to stop it.

Some big security concerns arose from Apple users, as they upgraded to the latest desktop version of OS X; Yosemite. The new OS integrates a feature that has been around for quite a while, known as Spotlight. When pressing Command+Space bar, OSX brings up a search box for you to do a variety of things. […]

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Apples Stops Supporting SSL 3.0 Following Poodle Flaw

Apple has announced that it will no longer support the security encryption standard known as SSL. More specifically SSL 3.0. Instead it’ll be integrating its push notification system. This all due to a flaw in SSL that could possibly expose data. The switch from SSL 3.0 to TLS (Transport Layer Security) will commence October 29th. […]

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Google 2-Step Login Verification via USB

Google has introduced a security mechanism in which users can log into their Gmail accounts via a two-step authentication method. This means that once you’ve entered your password an extra step is required to gain access to your account. This layer of security makes it much more difficult for hackers to gain access to your […]

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‘Citizenfour’, Edward J. Snowden Documentary by Laura Poitras

A new documentary by Laura Poitras on no other than whistleblower Edward Snowden, titled ‘Citizenfour,’ quickly gained positive reviews after premiering at the New York Film Festival, as reported by Forbes. It hasn’t been much more than a year, that the world came to know the name of Edward J. Snowden, former CIA agent, and […]

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Dropbox Denies Being Hacked after 7 Million Account Credentials Possibly Leaked Online

Earlier this week, The Next Web reported a Reddit thread linked to an anonymous Pastebin.com post containing a few hundred Dropbox account passwords, with the promise of a huge cache of 7 million accounts including some leaked content from the accounts, in exchange for Bitcoin donations. Dropbox quickly responded in a statement to The Next […]

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200,000 Snapchat Accounts Breached through Third-Party Services

The largest known Snapchat hack made the news recently, with an estimated two-hundred-thousand accounts affected and a massive 13 gigabytes of photos and videos had been stolen from services that allowed users to access their Snapchat out of the actual app. These third-party services are not directly affiliated to Snapchat, and according to the company, […]

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DSL Gateway Router Backdoor Deliberately Hidden Instead of Patched

Last year around Christmas, Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security, found an important backdoor exploit present in the majority of ADSL modem gateway wireless router combinations in circulation by fluke, while sniffing for open ports on his family’s modem during his holiday visit. He presented his findings using a PowerPoint illustration shared on Github, explaining […]

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UnoTelly: An Easy Solution to Watch TV from Anywhere

Watching your favorite shows and channels on the internet has always been a challenge due to all the geographical restrictions imposed by the networks. Even YouTube videos are often blocked to international viewers, if the content so happens to belong to any big national network. This means, if you’re not in the UK, you don’t […]

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Survey Finds 85% of Cell Phone Apps Fail at Providing Adequate Privacy

A recent study paper just published on ICO, this September 10th 2014, by Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN), found that thousands of apps from across the world, are collecting and disclosing private user information without consent, and with very little transparency. The survey closely examined privacy details submitted by over 1,200 mobile apps, including 50 […]

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How to Verify if Your Gmail is Part of the 5 Million Leaked Accounts

It was just reported by the DailyDot, that an alleged list of almost 5 million Gmail addresses and passwords had been shared on a Russian Bitcoin forum. After numerous reports and updates, here is what you need to be informed of and how to quickly find out if your account may have been part of […]

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How Secure is Your 4G Mobile Network?

Most of today’s mobile users prefer the speed of data access provided by 4G networks, compared to the slower 2G or 3G.  But are they truly aware of the hidden pitfall of their choices? First off, the texting and voice features provided by mobile communication are separate from the Internet. This is not true with […]

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How Much Information Is Collected Form You When Browsing?

Are you aware of the multitude of information certain websites you visited can identify who you actually are?  Pretty handy for advertisers to target you for their sales pitch even if only through the Internet.  This process of identification is called browser fingerprinting. What is browser fingerprinting? Each browser or visitor to a site has […]

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WEDG – New Age Secure Cloud Computing

After all the revelations on the NSA made public with the help of Edward Snowden’s leaked documents so far, and so much more yet to be made public, it is abundantly clear that nothing and no one is safe from having their innermost details taken and collected with the use of online surveillance.  Social media […]

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