As yet another high profile cyber attack takes place, almost on a monthly basis now, IT experts around the world are pushing for stronger regulations as a means to tackle the ever growing problem of cyber crime. The Talk Talk data breach, the company’s third hack in the past 12 months already, is just another case
Read More...
The personal email account of John Brennan, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was hacked and led to the exposure of more than 20 employees of the CIA. Federal investigators are looking into the breach of security after the attack took place on Monday which left the Director red-faced. When it was found that high school
Read More...
A controversial new bill is under review and set to be receiving a vote from the Senate later this month. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is set to allow companies to share its user’s personal data with the US government as a way to provide immunity from internet regulators as well as the Freedom
Read More...
A small upstart company in Massachusetts, USA, came up with the idea that would later be bought out by one of the world’s biggest electronic brands, Samsung. This technology, called LoopPay, would later evolve into what underpins Samsung’s mobile payments system, to rival Apple Pay. But Chinese hackers attacked the small subsidiary a number of
Read More...
Nowadays, with high speed internet access available in most place in the world, the ability and freedom of working from home, or remotely, is higher than ever. With so many companies in hot water over security breaches and hacking recently, now is more important than ever to protect yourself online, stay safe when working remotely with
Read More...
Privacy fears have risen from Windows 10 and their alleged data collecting from emails and other applications through Windows 10. Microsoft denies allegations of privacy breaches, and claim that there are options to turn off any data to be sent away to the company. But many are unsatisfied with Microsoft’s policies. When Windows 10 launched back
Read More...
The App Store has long been considered a safe haven, where it was pretty much impossible to download any malicious software, or any program that could potentially harm your phone or computer. But now, the first major attack on app store causes Apple to remove apps. The malware, called XcodeGhost affected several apps on the
Read More...
Due to a computer glitch at several busy airports across the USA, a large number of American Airlines flights have been forced to ground until the problem is resolved. Planes in Chicago, Dallas and Miami were prevented from taking off until the issue had been fixed. The issue was first bought to the airlines’ attention at
Read More...
The GCHQ, the intelligence agency in the UK, has released an informative report on how people could and should simplify their passwords. The file, named “Password guidance: simplifying your approach” hopes to teach users that instead of using difficult combinations of letter and numbers in order to secure their online presence, that they should instead use
Read More...
It can be very frustrating when you’re unable to view or access certain online content when trying to access them from abroad. Even websites you wouldn’t expect to be blocked, or at least have restricted content, can come up with a message stating you can no longer access certain content when trying to watch a
Read More...