Latest articles tagged “security”

Symantec, the antivirus pioneer, was the company that first came up with an idea and its implementation of anti-virus software. 25 years later, the company’s Vice-President Brian Dye says “anti-virus is dead.” ... Read more

Independent developer Andreas Kurtz reports about vulnerability in iOS 7, which enables hackers get access to files that are attached to emails. The vulnerability contradicts Apple’s statement that iDevices additionally encrypt email attachments. ... Read more

Below is the list of alternative search engines that claim not to store user data, or what search engines you should try if you’re worried about State Department poking their nose in your user data. ... Read more

Heartbleed has been keeping a lot of people on their toes lately – from major services like Elance to small retail e-stores. A lot of people launched changing their passwords just to find out their banking services might not have patched the hole. ... Read more

Owners of the Samsung Galaxy S5 get another chance to use one of the most interesting and unique features in their smartphone now that the popular security software LastPass has updated its software to support fingerprint scanning. ... Read more

Remote Administration Tools were created with remote support in mind, but they currently pose one of the major backdoors for the spying programs to perpetrate your computer and either monitor your activity, or take full control of your machine. ... Read more

If you think you're safe behind Facebook's security settings, think again. ... Read more

Gmail, Skype, Facebook and Twitter, as well as any other Internet service provider that deals with electronic mail, instant messaging and social networking will have to store data about Russian users within the territory of the Russian Federation. ... Read more

Researchers have discovered that up to 99% of all CAPTCHA images can be deciphered using the same technology used to catalog street address numbers found on buildings and mailboxes within Google's Street View imagery. ... Read more

Tor, the Onion Router, anonymizes your Internet activities by disguising your identity and activity from Internet surveillance in its many forms, as well as helps you bypass Internet filters. ... Read more

Despite the fact that Microsoft has ended the extended support phase for the Windows XP (as of April 8th, 2014), a significant number of bank ATMs are still running the relatively outdated operating system. ... Read more

According to Symantec's 2014 Internet Security Threat Report, 2013 saw more data breaches than any other year in recorded history. ... Read more

With the growing threat of infectious low-level malware which can get into the boot process to load in malicious programs or prevent an operating system from starting, Intel developed EFI in the 1990s to secure the boot process. ... Read more

The use of the HTTPS encrypted connection means that data sent via a web browser across the internet to a web server is encrypted end to end. ... Read more

A five-year-old prodigy accidentally discovered one of the biggest Xbox One security bugs that enables anyone to log in to password-protected user accounts without the correct password. ... Read more