When it comes to data breaches of major online services like LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter and VK.com, it's two-factor authentication that could save you from being hacked.
Two-factor authentication or 2-step verification is an effective way to secure online accounts, but many users avoid enabling the feature just to save themselves from irritation of receiving and typing a six-digit code that takes their 10 to 15 extra seconds.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility, Guillaume Long, spoke on June 19 with Julian Assange, the fourth anniversary of asylum in the Embassy of Ecuador in London.
Ecuadorian Foreign Minister recalled the situation in which Assange applied for asylum “fearing for his life, physical integrity, freedom. He felt he was facing persecution for the work that he exposed about terrible crimes, serious violations of Human rights “.
One of the founders of notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has been ordered to pay a fine worth nearly US$400,000 to several major record labels after their content was shared illegally via the platform.
The penalty has been imposed on The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde by a court in Helsinki, Finland.
Several newly emerged wireless technologies (e.g., Internet-of-Things)---extensively backed by the tech industry---are being widely adopted and have resulted in a proliferation of diverse smart appliances and gadgets (e.g., smart thermostat, wearables, smartphones), which has ensuingly shaped our modern digital life. These technologies utilize several communication protocols that usually have stringent requirements stated in their specifications or standards, which their implementations are expected to comply with. Noncompliance exhibited by an implementation can cause interoperability issues, inconsistent behavior, or even security vulnerabilities.
A hacker who passed a list of US military personnel to so-called Islamic State (IS), knowing they’d use it to target those people in terrorist attacks, pleaded guilty on Wednesday and is facing the potential of a lengthy jail term.
Ardit Ferizi, a 20-year-old citizen of Kosovo who used the Twitter handle @Th3Dir3ctorY, pleaded guilty in a Virginia court to providing material support to IS, which is a designated foreign terrorist organization; to hacking a protected computer without authorization; and to stealing information.
Github is a well-known on-line repository for software source code.
It’s free for open source projects (personal and business users have to pay), and the site is said to have 14,000,000 users who collectively maintain 35,000,000 repositories.
The idea of a software repository is that it isn’t just a place to store your source code, but also to keep control of it.
The Government of Ecuador is in process of implementing an initiative proposed in January 2014 by the Ecuadorian Central Bank (BCE), for the use of a new electronic payment system, which is being commonly referred to as digital money.
From GPS system to satellite radio to wireless locks, today vehicles are more connected to networks than ever, and so they are more hackable than ever.
It is not new for security researchers to hack connected cars. Latest in the series of hackable connected cars is the Mitsubishi Outlander plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV).
The Fedora 23 Sugar on a Stick desktop offering is an unusually flexible computing desktop for children of all ages, school admins and organizations looking for the best bang for absolutely no bucks on existing computer hardware.
Google has rolled out a new beta of BigQuery, the data warehousing and analysis service available on Google Cloud Platform, which lets admins use standard SQL instead of one of its dialects.
BigQuery’s revamped SQL dialect replaces the existing dialect as the default query language. The new default is is fully compliant with the 2011 SQL standard and supports extensions that support queries of nested and repeated data. When BigQuery first launched in 2012, it was possible to query data with the SQL-like BQL, which stands for “BigQuery Query Language”. Now Google is bringing full SQL to the service, a significant development due to the pervasiveness of ANSI SQL, which is the lingua franca for data analysts.
The Linux Foundation has embraced a new open-source networking project in the shape of OpenSwitch.
OpenSwitch is an open-source operating system for data center network switches that was first built by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise before being launched last year. The Linux-based OS is designed to power network switches from various hardware vendors. The purpose is to allow enterprises to rapidly build out their data center networks while customizing them for their specific needs. To date, the project has picked up dozens of heavyweight backers, including Arista Networks, Intel Corp., Broadcom Corp., VMware Inc., and Accton Technology Corp., among others.
By moving under the Linux Foundation’s wing, OpenSwitch gains access to both its infrastructure and its management resources, and also gains exposure to open-source developers who might show greater interest due to the organization’s pedigree. After all, the Linux Foundation already hosts some of the world’s most influential open-source infrastructure projects, such as Cloud Foundry, OpenDaylight and the Zen Project, to name a few.
Want to find out everything Google knows about you? Well, you can just Google yourself!
Seriously. Googling your own name is the best way to find how deeply Google’s been digging into your digital life, as the company itself says.
And coming soon, you’ll have the ability to do a vanity search on your own name and, if you’re signed in, you’ll see a shortcut that leads to “My Account” – a hub Google set up last year that lets users find and control settings to protect privacy and safeguard their data.
Uber is cozying up to cyclists in Amsterdam, a city where there are more bicycles than people, with the launch of UberBike.
UberBike lets cyclists order a car equipped with a bike rack. The idea here is that lots of people cycle, but not everyone wants to ride everywhere they go, whether it’s because they’re tired or because of the weather.
Russian authorities have arrested a gang of 50 hackers suspected of stealing more than 1.7 Billion Rubles (over US$25 Million) from banks and other financial institutions in the country since 2011.
The same criminal gang had tried to steal a further 2.273 Billion Roubles by issuing false payment instructions, but that were blocked.
Security researcher has developed a cheap USB wall charger that is capable to eavesdrop on almost any Microsoft wireless keyboard.
MySpace mischief-maker Samy Kamkar has released a super-creepy keystroke logger for Microsoft wireless keyboards cunningly hidden in what appears to be a rather cheap, but functioning USB wall charger.
