You won’t see this happening everyday. The Chip giant buys a security software giant, out of nowhere. Intel, the biggest chip-hardware player, is buying software/security maker McAfee for $7.7 billion, a huge 60% premium over yesterday’s market … Read more
ATM Hacking has been popular for years. With some nasty tricks, it had been easy to hack into most ATM systems. But as the time evolved, those methods became obsolete and hardly few of those … Read more
If you are on facebook, and believe that its is a safe place to share your Personal stuff, take this: User data for 171 Million Facebook profiles has been leaked on to Torrents. Facebook recently … Read more
Everyone is complaining about Facebook‘s privacy negligence: The configuration to control privacy is hard for most users to adjust, as a result of which, most users are unaware of the privacy hit everytime the post … Read more
How far can softwares hackers reach? Perhaps, everywhere where software reaches? In a world where a complete PC can be hacked with a USB stick, everything appears possible. In a paper[ by autosec], the security researchers … Read more
We live in the world full of serpents, overlook things for seconds and you are bitten to death. Trojans, viruses, malware are everywhere. They find new ways to enter our sacred computers some way or the other. Talking about … Read more
Technology always gives you a double-edged sword. The one that lets you cut through the gates, and the other side can cut the holding hand. Similar the story of Traceability and the privacy. The number … Read more
Google is transforming the Email experience by extending the authentication to OAuth standard in it’s popular email service: Gmail. The move aims to harden the security of email accounts, after the having featured alerts for Simultaneous Logins, https … Read more
If you thought cookies reveal alot about your identity over the internet, probably you need to rethink. A new type of tracking is now considered to be way more powerful, and yet you don’t have … Read more
Every year, CanSecWest hosts a competition to analyse digital security. The most interesting among them are industry’s top Internet browsers, Operating systems. Pwn2Own hacker challenge wrapped up today with the same hacker taking the most … Read more
How many time did you login to your email account publicly and feared if someone might keylog you? Of course prevention is way better then the aftermath but Gmail has taken the next steps in … Read more
Google has taken the next step to make Web Applications Robust, it has released a Web application security scanner called Skipfish. The free (and Open Source) scanner is designed to work within a variety of existing … Read more
The source of high profile attack on Google [Aurora] has been tracked down to the source, a Hacker from China. The US authorities have traced the person who had written the code to make it … Read more
Windows 7’s popularity has raised its market share at a sky-high pace. Within 3 months of its official launch, it has crossed the Mac OS to capture 8% of the OS market. A while back, … Read more
As per the latest upcoming from the China Daily, the largest illegal hacker training and recruitment portal in China has been shut down by police . The operation was planned, executed by a team size of 50. In … Read more