It’s still not quite clear what PRISM really is, but what has become clear is that the NSA is doing its best to tap into as much online interactions as it can. To protest this, Mozilla, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,Reddit, the ACLU and numerous other...
[caption id="attachment_419" align="aligncenter" width="580"] If your iPhone gets robbed and ‘Find My Phone’ has been deactivated, Activation Lock will stop it from being reused by a different Apple account.[/caption] Apple may not be able to do anything to stop a robber from stealing your iPhone, but...
Google has broken down its six-week silence on the BadNews bug, telling a US security conference that while it was justified in removing infected applications from Google Play, it had no valid evidence that BadNews was having a part in the spreading of SMS-borne frauds. Announcing...
Samy Kamkar, a privacy and security researcher, highlighted new types attacks executed from the Internet. An attractive hack he demonstrated was the ability to extract extremely accurate geo-location data from a Web browser, while not using any IP geo-location information. Kamkar, by convincing the victim to...
What is a denial-of-service (DoS) attack? In a denial-of-service (DoS) attack, an attacker attempts to prevent legitimate users from accessing information or services. By targeting your computer and its network connection, or the computers and network of the sites you are trying to use, an attacker...
Scareware meant at mobile users is not nearly as everywhere as that directed at those who use Windows-run PCs. However, there is some out there. Modified Android Defender, the app simulates finding a host of malware on the user’s Android device, and then claims them to...
