President Barack Obama has carved out a broad national security exception for the National Security Agency (NSA), claims the new report. President Obama has made a decision in January that the NSA,…
Category: Security
BlackBerry to release Heartbleed patch
Heartbleed, vulnerability in the encryption code, is now the heart of headlines for major web companies. It all started with Yahoo, followed by various other websites. BlackBerry has now joined the club,…
NSA secretly exploited Heartbleed claims new report, but agency denies
The National Security Agency (NSA) was well aware of the Heartbleed flaw and has been regularly exploiting it to gather critical intelligence for at least two years, anonymous sources familiar with the…
Google adds an additional layer of protection to Android platform
Google is rolling out a new extension to its Verify apps service to check on the functioning of apps on Android devices. Though there are security checks and filters through which every…
Heartbleed coder: Mistake was ‘trivial’ but effect is ‘clearly severe’
Heartbleed bug, the worst security flaw the internet has ever encountered, was introduced to the world on New Year’s Eve 2011. The man behind the so-called coding error has come forward, confessing…
Google Chrome bug discovered – compromises microphone privacy
Guy Aharonovsky, an Israel based developer, has exposed the threats posed by a Google Chrome bug, which makes users’ microphones vulnerable to hacking. As reported by Aharonovsky, the bug lets any website…
Fake Virus Shield anti-virus app pulled from Google Play
Virus Shield, which managed to hit the no. 1 spot in the paid category, has been pulled from Google Play after it turned out to be a fake app that actually did…
Apple Passbook App hack + social engineering = Free air travel
A computer science student and now a security researcher in his late teens claims that he has found a way to fly for free in Europe using an Apple Passbook App hack…
Five year old discovers major Xbox Live security flaw
Kristoffer Von Hassel, from San Diego, a five year old little boy has uncovered an Xbox One password security flaw while trying to hack into his father’s Xbox Live account. Kristoffer has…
Windows XP, Office 2003 set to receive final security updates in next Patch Tuesday
Microsoft is going to roll out the final security patches for the soon-to-retire Windows XP and Office 2003 in its upcoming Patch Tuesday on April 8. Microsoft will be releasing 4 security…
Apple patches Safari security holes
Apple has patched a total of 27 vulnerabilities in Safari 6 and Safari 7 which were exploited successfully during the recent Pwn2Own hacking contest earning security researchers rewards in tune of $65,000….
Yahoo: Traffic moving between our data centres is fully encrypted
Yahoo has announced through a blog post that all the traffic between its data centres is now full encrypted, as a part of an ongoing project under which it intends to deploy…
WinRAR file spoofing vulnerability revealed
A vulnerability exists in WinRAR – probably one of the most used file archiving and data compression applications for Windows platform – that allows attackers to spoof files within the compressed archive…
Coinbase usernames appear online; Bitcoin wallet service denies hack
A list of usernames of Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase found its way onto the web fueling rumours of a security breach, but the service denied the possibility of a hack despite acknowledging…
Boxee.tv forum hacked; passwords, messages and more leaked
Last week, in a grand-scale compromise of user accounts of boxee.tv forum, almost 158,000 users’ account details and credentials were exposed. Boxee.tv remains tight-lipped about the hacking. It was from a security…