security

Tinder Investigating After 40,000 Pictures Taken From Site

Tinder is investigating an incident in which over 40,000 user facial pictures were downloaded by a programmer and shared on the…

8 years ago

Report Suggests Facebook is Target Advertising the Vulnerable

Leaked documents have emerged alleging that Facebook is helping their advertisers target teenager users who are at their most vulnerable.…

8 years ago

Social Medias Failure to Deal with Illegal Content is “Shameful”

A UK government committee has ruled that the social media giants are "shamefully far" from addressing illegal, dangerous and hateful content.…

8 years ago

Drunk Man Arrested for Attacking Robocop

A drunk man in California attempted to assault a crime prevention robot which called the police and reported its own assault…

8 years ago

Lithuanian Man Allegedly Tricked Google and Facebook Into Giving Him $100M

Evaldas Rimasauskas, 48 of Lithuania was recently charged with wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft for impersonating Quanta…

8 years ago

John McAfee Has Built a ‘Hack-Proof’ Smartphone

Perpetually bored rich man – and part-time consulting detective – John McAfee must have found himself inflicted with a bad…

8 years ago

Virgin Media SuperHub 3 Vulnerable to Low-Bandwidth DoS

Virgin Media customers with the latest SuperHub 3 router are vulnerable to losing their internet connections through a simple, low-bandwidth…

8 years ago

Smartcard Maker Plastc Shuts Down, Screwing Thousands of Backers

It sounded like a great idea: having a single Smartcard to replace multiple credit cards; less cards to carry and…

8 years ago

Lynksys Routers Feature Massive Security Flaw

Security researchers have found that a number of Linksys Smart Wi-Fi routers contain vulnerabilities that could be exploited to form…

8 years ago

Mastercard to Introduce Biometric Credit Cards

MasterCard have revealed a new credit card with an inbuilt biometric fingerprint reader as an additional security means to tackle…

8 years ago

New Government Poll Reports Cyber Attacks at Significantly Higher Rate

A new government survey published today has reported that cyber crime may be significantly higher than previously thought. In a…

8 years ago

The Evolving Threat of Ransomware and How it Works

With Ransomware on the increase, we look to help explain what Ransomware is and what you can do to avoid…

8 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Addresses Facebook Murder Case

Speaking at Facebook's annual F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg addressed the tragic murder of Robert Godwin Sr whose killing was streamed via Facebook. Robert…

8 years ago

1 in 5 UK Businesses Have Been Attacked by Hackers

A recent survey has revealed that at least 1 in 5 UK businesses have been attacked or the victim of…

8 years ago

Microsoft Patched NSA Hack on Global Banks Before it was Leaked

Microsoft has announced that the NSA Global Banking leak released earlier this week (which reportedly exposed flaws in Windows security)…

8 years ago