Cyber-espionage is not anymore hypothetical, it is happening already, and the wrath of its claws has been felt no more palpably than by the major defense contractors to the US government. The culprit: a hacking group from Iran.
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Facebook and Carnegie Mellon University found a way to block man-in-the-middle attacks
Man-in-the-middle attacks have been one of the most notorious cyber threats that have been wreaking havoc to enterprises for years. This sort of attack is often difficult to combat because attackers operate in a highly stealthy manner, making it less noticeable to two individuals communicating over the Internet.
Using Mobile Commerce to Your Advantage
It is very rare to find someone who does not own a smartphone or device and even rarer still to find someone who does not have access to a computer using the internet. Mashable estimates that four out of five people currently use their mobile devices to make online purchases. This makes a mobile platform […]
European Union’s court orders Google to delete personal data on demand
If you have once sworn at Google to one day force the search giant to remove your personal data from its results pages, your lucky day might be forthcoming.
Emerging Biometric Authentication Technologies: From Fingerprint Scanners to Brainwave Identification
The world has become that advanced in the area of digital security where biometric verification is the most secure methodology to authenticate an individual’s identity. This state-of-the-art invention has proven the fact that it is far safer and more convenient in this advanced first quarter of the 21st century as compared to other old and […]
Click-fraud Trojan turns Windows computers into botnets
There’s a not-so-new Trojan malware that infects Windows computers running the Vista and 7 operating systems, even including the deceased XP. Trojan.Viknok, which emerged last year, is now shifting its aim to the privilege escalation vulnerabilities by obtaining administrative-level access to computers in order to convert the system into a botnet.
