The UK government is launching a new initiative called the Cyber Discovery programme. With a budget of £20M, it aims to get 15 to 18-year-old interested in cyber-security. ...
November 20, 2017 at 3:08 pm by Ron Perillo
Apple‘s latest flagship iPhone the iPhone X is touting its Face ID feature as its most revolutionary security advancement yet. However, a Vietnamese cybersecurity firm ...
November 13, 2017 at 11:35 pm by Ron Perillo
I’m sorry, that password is incorrect… Please choose your password. I’m sorry, please choose a password with a capital letter. Sorry, please use a password ...
August 9, 2017 at 8:12 pm by Mike Sanders
How safe do you think your data online is? We practically hear a story every week about how some major company has had it’s online data compromised. Based on this ...
August 8, 2017 at 3:05 pm by Mike Sanders
Remember the 22-year old Brit credited for stopping the WannaCry malware? Which affected millions of computers globally. Going by the username “MalwareTech”, he ...
May 17, 2017 at 4:37 pm by Ron Perillo
Bangalore-based security firm Fallible claims that personal data of over 2.2 million users have been leaked via the McDonalds App used for delivery in India called McDelivery. ...
March 21, 2017 at 12:01 pm by Ron Perillo
Many companies seek to outsource the finding of vulnerabilities in their products to external hackers, offering monetary rewards in exchange for details on successful hacks ...
March 15, 2016 at 11:41 pm by Alexander Neil
Over the last five years, UK intelligence service GCHQ has spent nearly £1 billion on its cyber security initiative, but the civil servant in charge of the program has ...
March 14, 2016 at 3:12 pm by Ashley Allen
A hacker going by the online alias ROR[RG] has released a large amount of data that belonged to a Turkish National Police database and is thought to contain large amounts of ...
February 17, 2016 at 10:10 am by Alexander Neil
It seems that no system is beyond the reach of hackers out to line their own pockets. For almost an entire week, the Hollywood Presbyterian Memorial Medical Center has been ...
February 16, 2016 at 9:21 am by Alexander Neil
The eBay site is used by millions of people and as a result, has a level of trust with its users buying and selling countless items each day. Imagine then, how lucrative a ...
February 3, 2016 at 9:15 pm by Alexander Neil
Vectra Networks researchers today released an article demonstrating how they turned a $30 D-Link Wi-Fi webcam into a backdoor onto its owner’s network. Installing a ...
January 14, 2016 at 11:47 am by Alexander Neil
The hacking group, Lizard Squad targeted the poor security on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network last year and caused major disruption during the holiday period. This meant ...
December 15, 2015 at 5:00 pm by John Williamson
There are lots of ways people try to protect their privacy in the modern world, where techniques like encryption are under fire. While hiding message content can be effective, ...
December 14, 2015 at 8:00 pm by Alexander Neil
Critical security updates to applications are essential to maintain a patched system from the many exploits which attempt to infiltrate ones PC. Certain software companies ...
October 26, 2015 at 3:30 pm by Christopher Files
