Now your TV could be infected by computer viruses. Technology security expert warns cyber criminals could infect millions of devices. Televisions could soon be infected by computer viruses, one of the world's top technology security experts has warned.
Eugene Kaspersky is co-founder and chief executive of Russia’s Kaspersky Lab, the world’s fourth largest computer antivirus company. He said threats will spread to the 'home environment' and televisions as internet connections make technology more vulnerable.Televisions could soon be infected by computer viruses, one of the world's top technology security experts has warned In an interview with The Telegraph he said his company's headquarters in Moscow receives 315,000 suspicious activity reports every day.
Read moreA new feature introduced by Facebook to allow meeting the Facebook friends in real time when they are actually close by has had mixed reactions from its users. Nearby Friends, an optional mobile application, taps steady stream of location information and makes it possible for friends to track each other in real time and meet up in real life.
For example, when you’re headed to the movies, ”Nearby Friends” will let you know if friends are nearby so you can see the movie together or meet up afterward,” says the Facebook newsroom. When selected, it means one can have information about:
Read moreIf you are using WhatsApp to chit-chat with your friends or relatives, then you should be careful about sharing your location with them using WhatsApp 'Location Share' feature. No doubt, WhatsApp communication between your phone and company's server is now encrypted with SSL, which means whatever you are sharing with your friends, is secured from the man-in-the-middle attacks.
But the extremely popular instant messaging service for Smartphones that delivers more than 1 billion messages per day has another serious security issue. According to Researchers at UNH Cyber Forensics Research & Education Group, WhatsApp location sharing service could expose your location to hackers or Spy Agencies.
Read moreA new webmail service called Lavaboom promises to provide easy-to-use email encryption without ever learning its users’ private encryption keys or message contents.
Lavaboom, based in Germany and founded by Felix Müller-Irion, is named after Lavabit, the now defunct encrypted email provider believed to have been used by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
Lavabit decided to shut down its operations in August in response to a U.S. government request for its SSL private key that would have allowed the government to decrypt all user emails.
Read moreA popular Android app called Brightest Flashlight could do more than just shine light. Brightest Flashlight was a simple flashlight app that was highly-rated and had over 50 million installs. However, it had one devious, hidden feature: It would share personal data, such as your location, with advertisers. The FTC caught wind of this and began investigating the developer. The FTC reached a settlement with the developer last week, and it looks like he got away easy.
Erik Geidl, the single developer behind Brightest Flashlight, will have to stop collecting location data unless he clearly explains how and why he’s doing so. He will also have to delete any location data he already has within 10 days of the settlement.
Read moreThe FBI is planning to build out a facial recognition system that can query a huge database of photos to identify someone based on his or her appearance regardless of criminal history, reports the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
This is part of the FBI’s NGI system — Next Generation Identification — which could hold data on as much as one-third of all Americans. Privacy advocates are up in arms, of course. You only need to consider the overwhelming backlash we saw when facial recognition apps became available for Google Glass — they were summarily banned. This new arm of the NGI database will build off of the FBI’s already impressive collection of fingerprints of approximately 100 million total records, some of which include retina scans and palm prints.
Read moreApple founder Steve Jobs was planning to wage a "Holy War" against Google a year before he died, a higly confidential email has revealed.
Jobs sent the email in 2010 to his top 100 most senior executives, in which he outlined the company's strategy for the following year.
In it, he announced that 2011 would see a 'Holy War' between Apple and Google, and outlined all the ways in which the two companies would compete – from cloud services to mobile operating systems.
Read moreThe first round of results are in, and so far TrueCrypt, the popular open-source encryption program, has a relatively clean bill of health. Security firm iSec Partners recently carried out the first phase of the TrueCrypt audit on behalf of the Open Crypto Audit Project (OCAP).
OCAP is the official name for the group behind istruecryptauditedyet.com, a project inspired by the revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities. OCAP was created by Matthew Green, a cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Kenneth White, Principal Scientist at Social & Scientific Systems. For its report, which was released on Monday, iSec took a look at TrueCrypt’s latest Windows edition (version 7.1a).
Read moreThe fingerprint sensor on Samsung's Galaxy S5 handset has been hacked less than a week after the device went on sale.
Berlin-based Security Research Labs fooled the equipment using a mould it had previously created to spoof the sensor on Apple's iPhone 5S.
The researchers said they were concerned that thieves could exploit the flaw in Samsung's device to trigger money transfers via PayPal. The payments firm played down the risk. "While we take the findings from Security Research Labs [SRL] very seriously, we are still confident that fingerprint authentication offers an easier and more secure way to pay on mobile devices than passwords or credit cards," it said.
Read moreCloud-based vulnerability scanning services can range from the core scanning services to components in a broader set of managed security services. In this article we will consider four such services: WebSAINT, ImmuniWeb, BeyondSaaS and Dell Secure Works Vulnerability Scanning service.
SAINT has a long history in vulnerability scanning and the WebSAINT and WebSAINT Pro vulnerability scanning services make the SAINT scanner available through a SaaS model. The WebSAINT service includes PCI ASV scans, vulnerability scanning on external targets, scheduling options as well as multiple reports. The WebSAINT Pro version includes penetration testing, checklist compliance, Web application scanning along with custom and predefined reports.
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