CyberSecurity

ProtonMail criticised for paying $6,000 ransom to stop hacker attack

The attacks started shortly after midnight on Tuesday, 3 November.

Nov 6, 2015

YIFY (YTS) shutdown to bring the largest BitTorrent tracker Demonii to an end

Following the sad demise of YIFY release group and the YTS website, Demonii is expected to go the same way soon.

Nov 4, 2015

Mozilla Firefox adds tracking protection in its latest version [video]

The tracking protection feature will not save the browsing date, and also block ads and analytical trackers.

Nov 4, 2015

Vodafone UK: Hackers broke into accounts of nearly 2000 customers

Hackers had potentially gained access to the victims' bank sort codes and the last four numbers of their accounts.

Nov 1, 2015

7 best torrent sites with genuine content: KickAss Torrents, EZTV, The Pirate Bay and more

With several torrent sites going dark, here are a few reliable options to get your favourite TV shows and movies.

Nov 1, 2015

Oracle India says Indian Inc eager to buy its ultra-secured M7 chip

The M7 microprocessor's primary focus will be in security and performance.

Oct 30, 2015

'Cloud passport' may soon let Australians travel without documents

It will store an individual's identity and biometric information in a cloud.

Oct 29, 2015

World Internet Freedom Report 2015: Internet access improves under Modi

India's score on internet barriers improved from 42 in 2014 to 40 in 2015.

Oct 29, 2015

US sixth grader sells 'easy to memorise, but hard to crack' secure passwords for $2 each

Mira Modi generates passwords by rolling a dice and matching the random numbers with the Diceware list of English words.

Oct 26, 2015

TalkTalk hack: Online data cannot be â€˜genuinely safeâ€™

British broadband provider TalkTalk said a cyberattack on its website could have led to the theft of private data from its more than 4m customers, in what would be one of the biggest such breaches of personal information in the country.

Oct 23, 2015

Spooky idea of observing one particle changing another is real: Dutch scientists

Delft University of Technology researchers showed how two electrons at separate locations share invisible connections.

Oct 22, 2015

Sony to pay up to $8 million in employees' identity theft lawsuit

The settlement was disclosed on 19 October in a Los Angeles federal court.

Oct 21, 2015

Kerala: Hacker group 'Mallu Cyber Soldiers' targets websites of sex rackets

'Mallu Cyber Soldiers' has successfully hacked two websites related to online prostitution.

Oct 21, 2015

Your smartphone can be hacked via a text message by world govts, warns Snowden

A sophisticated technology created by the American National Security Agency allows it to gain near-total access to a smartphone by sending it an encrypted text message.

Oct 8, 2015

Exclusive: Who are 'Mallu Cyber Soldiers' that hacked Pakistan websites

"Mallu Cyber Soldiers" is a group of security experts, that work toward protecting Indian websites from getting hacked.

Sep 28, 2015

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