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2016 Yahoo Security Breach Still not Secured

US telecoms giant has snapped up Yahoo for $4.48 billion, which is $350 million less than it had originally agreed to pay for the internet tech company after it was revealed ...

February 21, 2017 at 6:32 pm by

Robot Security Guards Patrol China’s Rail Station

New robot security guards have been deployed on-duty guarding China’s Zhengzhou railway station adding on to their regular security roster beginning in the middle of ...

February 20, 2017 at 6:15 pm by

Teen Hacker Demonstrates Exactly Why IoT Printers Are Stupid

What do you do when you are a bored, pissed off high-school student from the UK in front of his computer with rootkit coding skills and access to over hundreds of thousands of ...

February 11, 2017 at 2:00 am by

Tesla Model X Front Trunk Space Can Be Opened with Just a Screwdriver

This may not be exactly news for most people who own a Tesla Model X and have read the manual but apparently there are not many of those around. YouTuber Salomondrin has ...

February 10, 2017 at 10:00 pm by

Ex-Mozilla Engineer: Uninstall Third-Party Antivirus Software Now

A former engineer for Firefox developer Mozilla has advised PC users to avoid installing third-party antivirus software on their systems. Robert O’Callahan felt ...

January 29, 2017 at 9:01 pm by

Acer to Pay $115K in Penalties for Credit Card Security Breach

Thousands of user’s personal data was compromised back in June 2016 after an Acer employee enabled debugging mode on the company’s e-commerce platform for nearly a ...

January 28, 2017 at 3:57 pm by

Another Hacker Responsible for “The Fappening” Sentenced to 9-Months in Prison

After pleading to felony computer hacking charges last year, 29-year old Edward Majerczyk of Illinois was sentenced to nine-months in federal prison on Tuesday for his role in ...

January 25, 2017 at 1:00 pm by

Android Pattern Lock Can be Cracked in Under Five Attempts

The Pattern Lock method of securing an Android device – one of the most popular methods amongst users, which involves connecting dots with straight lines in a pattern ...

January 23, 2017 at 8:00 pm by

Top London University Admits to Monitoring Student E-mails

King’s College London has posted a notice on their e-mail login page warning members that emails can be “monitored and recorded”, apparently under the UK ...

January 23, 2017 at 12:30 pm by

Researchers Claim Anonymized Web History Not So Anonymous

Researchers from Standford and Princeton University have released a study showing that anonymized web behaviour can still be identified via social media profiles. Google and ...

January 22, 2017 at 7:30 pm by

Popular Meitu “Beauty” App Raises Severe Privacy Concern

Chinese app Meitu which has gained extreme popularity worldwide allowing users to apply “beauty” filters and virtual makeup to their photos has been revealed to be ...

January 20, 2017 at 8:00 pm by

Predictable Passwords Remain Popular Despite Increased Security Breaches

Despite the increase of publicized data breaches and hacking, security researchers have found that most people’s online security habits remain relatively unchanged ...

January 17, 2017 at 1:32 pm by

FTC Sues D-Link over Poor Hardware Security

The internet of things (IoT) is a security nightmare – just look at the recent DDoS attacks triggered by millions of IoT devices infected by the Mirai botnet – and D-Link ...

January 15, 2017 at 4:00 pm by

Sengled SNAP LED + IP Security Camera Review

Introduction We’ve been playing around with a lot of IoT and smart home devices, but one of the ones we’ve been most eager to test is the Sengled Snap, as it ...

January 7, 2017 at 9:00 am by

New Digital Cards To Help Banks Combat Online Fraud

Banks in the UK could soon be rolling out a new type of card, which would majorly reduce cases of online fraud. This new type of card would see the 3 digit security number on ...

December 14, 2016 at 9:00 pm by

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