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Netflix Soon to Secure Video Streams via HTTPS

The video streaming giant, Netflix will soon be using the HTTPS protocol to encrypt its customer streams. A great plan that helps ensure that what they watch stays secret. ...

April 19, 2015 at 2:58 am by

D-LINK Issues Apology to Consumers for Cloud Routing Loophole

Today, D-link has issued an apology to the users of 17 of their routers due to a coding loophole which has allowed hackers to get access to sensitive information such as ...

April 17, 2015 at 8:40 pm by

Google Admits it is Scanning Android Phones For “The Right Reasons”

You may not be shocked that the search engine giant, Google, is scanning every single app on your phone, even if you downloaded it from third-parties and not from the Google ...

April 3, 2015 at 11:58 am by

GitHub Gets Hit by the Biggest DDoS Attack in Site’s History

GitHub, the popular website used for projects spanning from game engines to security applications and even web app frameworks, is apparently suffering the biggest DDoS attack ...

March 30, 2015 at 9:09 am by

Man Arrested for Not Giving Border Agents His Phone Passcode

When Quebec resident Alain Philippon arrived at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Canada, he was stopped by border agents as he departed his flight from the Dominican ...

March 8, 2015 at 5:58 pm by

Image Too Blurry to Identify Someone in a Security Footage? Fujitsu Has the Answer

A new image-processing technology has been developed by Fujitsu, who claims that it now can be used to track people even in heavily blurred footage from security cameras. The ...

March 6, 2015 at 7:58 pm by

Tim Cook: We Shouldn’t Give Up our Privacy Due to “Scare-Mongering”

Tim Cook was in London yesterday giving an interview to The Telegraph, in which he covered a whole range of topics, including the subject of privacy. Cook has always been a ...

March 1, 2015 at 5:58 am by

Google Chrome Adds Bold Malware Warnings

In an effort to reduce malware infections through its browser, Google has added pop-up warnings to Chrome that warns users that the site they are trying to visit “might ...

February 26, 2015 at 3:58 am by

Mac OS X and iOS More Vunerable than Windows and Linux, Surprised?

With the recent increase in sales of all things Apple, its once strong perception of being very secure is losing steam, especially thanks to the sale over notebooks and ...

February 23, 2015 at 11:04 pm by

Superfish Admits to Certificate Installation, Didn’t Realise Security Flaw

The CEO of Superfish, the company behind the software of the same name that has been central to a recent scandal surrounding Lenovo, has admitted to his company ...

February 22, 2015 at 12:58 am by

Lenovo Releases Automatic Tool to Remove Superfish

Lenovo, the company embroiled in controversy over the Superfish adware preinstalled on a number of their PCs, has released a special removal tool to automatically rid their ...

February 21, 2015 at 8:58 pm by

Microsoft Updates Windows Defender to Remove Superfish

Microsoft has emerged as the hero within this whole Superfish/Lenovo story, as the company has updated its anti-virus software to detect and remove the offending program. ...

February 21, 2015 at 2:58 pm by

Data Breach: The Sure Fast Way to Become a Retail Pariah

“18.5M Californians lose data to hackers”   Shocking weekly headlines such as this illustrate the growing problem of major data breaches at multinational ...

February 20, 2015 at 9:00 am by

Has the NSA Been Hiding Viruses in Hard Drive Firmware?

A new report from Kaspersky Lab suggests that the NSA might just have developed quite an interesting way to hide viruses. They say that they may well be hiding malicious ...

February 17, 2015 at 10:25 am by

Apple Forcing Users to Upgrade Flash

In Apple’s latest hit against Adobe Flash, the most recent update to OS X is now forcing users to upgrade to new versions of Flash by blocking any web content that uses ...

February 7, 2015 at 4:58 pm by

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