Spam: An Endangered Species?

With an 82% decline in the past year, it seems the reign of spam may be at an end—or at least a pause. Or that it may be ‘ending’ or ‘on its way out.’ Or in a lull of some kind. Spam originated on a small scale, but it has grown to become endemic in [...]

New Facebook: how to take control of your privacy

Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features. And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profile, see their friends’ activities in real time or have their preferences in music, movies and reading shared as they’re consuming media. Advertisement: [...]

Mozilla gets tough after digital certificates hack

Firefox browser distributor Mozilla today gave companies that sell digital certificates a week to take actions to improve their security after a certificate authority (CA) was hacked and Gmail users in Iran were targeted in a recent attack. When a Web surfer visits a site over a protected SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) connection, the browser [...]

McAfee says Android plagued by the most malware

While the momentum of Google’s Android platform has drawn new partners and customers, it has also attracted new threats. Security software provider McAfee said today that the amount of malware, or malicious software, targeting Androids phones jumped 76 percent since the last quarter, making it the most heavily attacked mobile operating system. In addition, the [...]

Site ranks hackers

An online service has cropped up in the past month that enables people to earn points by hacking Web sites. Dubbed Rank My Hack, the hacker community site assigns point values to hacks. “Welcome to RankMyHack.Com,” the site reads. “The worlds first elite hacker ranking system. Submit proof of your website hacks in exchange for [...]

Facial Recognition in iPhone 5 – privacy concerns

Currently there has been a fair bit of discussion on privacy concerns surrounding the implementation of facial recognition software to several apps. The technology is already available and if used in conjunction with an extensive database which can be yielded from social networks such as facebook or the new google+ network and implemented into youtube, [...]

Mobile phones, privacy, and user consent – Apple, google, facebook

Apple and Google returned to Capitol Hill this morning to defend themselves against accusations from U.S. politicians who claim that the companies aren’t doing enough to protect their customers’ location privacy. Today’s Senate subcommittee hearing, which Facebook also joined, came only a week after a different Senate subcommittee convened nearly the identical hearing on the [...]

Geohot now a Facebook employee

Famed iPhone hacker George Hotz, better known as “Geohot,” is working for Facebook. The news of Hotz joining the social network first cropped up over the weekend in a report by TechUnwrapped. Facebook later confirmed the news to several publications, including CNET sister site ZDNet. Following initial reports, Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera reported on his [...]

Hackers have fun attacking CIA site

The hacker group LulzSec has claimed credit for taking down the CIA’s website for a couple of hours. It is the latest in a string of embarrassing website disruptions the group has pulled off, apparently more to poke fun and highlight vulnerabilities than to cause real damage. On Wednesday at 5.48pm, LulzSec, which dubs itself [...]

Hacked facebook and paypal logins

Australians are being advised by the government to change and vary their passwords after miscreants began using the logins of thousands of people leaked on to the web to break into Facebook and PayPal accounts. One claims to have bought a packet of condoms “for an elderly woman” using the online store Amazon. The LulzSec [...]

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