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NSA Getting Snoopy
According to an article in CNET the NSA budget leaks from Snowden are showing that the NSA is becoming quite the snoop on the global web, employing incredibly powerful encryption breaking codes. Of...
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Researcher Earns Money With Facebook’s Bug Bounty Program
A 21 year old white hat hacker has claimed a bounty of $12,500 USD after identifying a bug in which hackers could use an exploit to delete any photo on Facebook by taking advantage of vulnerable code...
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NSA Working To Beat Encryption
How do you feel about the government working to defeat encryption, allowing them to essentially “listen in” on your conversations? At first glance you might think “Oh well, they’re just trying to...
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WhatsApp Website Hacked
WhatsApp Website Hacked A Pro Palestinian hacking group called KDMS Team has claimed the recent hacking of the very popular messaging service WhatsApp, used by millions of people. They apparently...
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Adobe Hack Exposes Data Of 38 Million
On October 3 Adobe confirmed that a hacking attack had exposed the account data for around 3 million users. However on Tuesday they had to upgrade that number to around 38 million accounts. The...
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Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
The early days of advanced cryptography were extremely interesting, with mechanical machines using advanced mathematical theorems to encode messages. One of the unsung heroes of World War II is British...
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Macbook Pro Webcams Could Spy On You
It has recently been revealed that there have been a few cases where a user’s Macbook Pro webcam was activated to “spy” on them and take pictures – and the indication “power” light was never activated....
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Fraudulent 9.84 Charges – Where Are They Coming From?
Recently KrebsOnSecurity has written a post detailing a rash of fraudulent 9.84 charges on credit cards across the globe. He tracked these charges through to dozens of randomly named websites that...
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Companies Don’t Always Report Credit Card Data Breaches
Recently it has come to light that retailer Neiman Marcus had a good deal of credit card information hacked in December, but you might not have heard about it until now. That is because the retailer...
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The Mysterious Google Barge In San Francisco
It’s almost as if Tony Stark is real – but instead it’s Google. The mysterious floating barge in San Francisco was finally claimed by Google although the company is still rather secretive about what...
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Did Flappy Bird Designer Scam The App Store With Bots?
There is a rather funny but interesting kerfuffle going on with the App store and the recent hit game “Flappy Bird” that seems to be a three ring media circus. Theories abound as to whether or not the...
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BitCoin Hit By DDoS Attack
Bitcoin has been under an unnamed DDoS attack that is targeting the “transaction malleability” aspect of the Bitcoin protocol. Mt. Gox has halted transactions since a few days ago because of this...
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Namecheap Blasted By Enormous DDoS Attack
In what seems to be becoming all too common, Domain Registrar Namecheap was attacked today by a massive Denial Of Service attack (DDoS) that was unusually large. At it’s peak the attack reached more...
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Did Flappy Bird Designer Scam The App Store With Bots?
There is a rather funny but interesting kerfuffle going on with the App store and the recent hit game “Flappy Bird” that seems to be a three ring media circus. Theories abound as to whether or not the...
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WhatsApp Website Hacked
WhatsApp Website Hacked A Pro Palestinian hacking group called KDMS Team has claimed the recent hacking of the very popular messaging service WhatsApp, used by millions of people. They apparently...
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Adobe Hack Exposes Data Of 38 Million
On October 3 Adobe confirmed that a hacking attack had exposed the account data for around 3 million users. However on Tuesday they had to upgrade that number to around 38 million accounts. The...
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Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
The early days of advanced cryptography were extremely interesting, with mechanical machines using advanced mathematical theorems to encode messages. One of the unsung heroes of World War II is British...
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Macbook Pro Webcams Could Spy On You
It has recently been revealed that there have been a few cases where a user’s Macbook Pro webcam was activated to “spy” on them and take pictures – and the indication “power” light was never activated....
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Fraudulent 9.84 Charges – Where Are They Coming From?
Recently KrebsOnSecurity has written a post detailing a rash of fraudulent 9.84 charges on credit cards across the globe. He tracked these charges through to dozens of randomly named websites that...
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Companies Don’t Always Report Credit Card Data Breaches
Recently it has come to light that retailer Neiman Marcus had a good deal of credit card information hacked in December, but you might not have heard about it until now. That is because the retailer...
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