Last Sunday, a security group calling itself OurMine claimed to have compromise the Twitter and Quora accounts of Google CEO Sundar Pichai. OurMine posted messages reading “hacked” and “we are just testing your security” to Pichai’s half-million followers. Other accounts hacked by OurMine also included, VC Mark Suster, Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg’s sister Randi Zuckerberg, Spotify […]
Norton has just announced the global launch of a new mobile VPN, Norton Wi-Fi Privacy. This new subscription based app, encrypts all the data you send over a public Wi-Fi network and is now available on both Apple and Android devices. Norton Company says it wants you to stay safe on public Wi-Fi, and is […]
CIA Director John Brennan’s personal email account was hacked. According to WIRED, a news magazine, the hackers didn’t use sophisticated skills but instead “duped customer service agents at Verizon AOL,” to obtain Brennan’s cell phone number, email address, and other personal information, including the last four digits of his bank card. This should remind us […]
“The annual cost of cybercrime to US organizations rose nearly 20% over the past year to reach an average of $15m – far greater than the global figure, according to the latest data from the Ponemon Institute (Ponemon Institute headquartered in Michigan, is a research center dedicated to privacy, data protection and information security policy.) […]
Researchers at the mobile analytics firm SourceDNA said they found 256 apps with an estimated one million downloads that have a version of Youmi that violates user privacy. Youmi is a mobile advertising provider that gather private information, such as user email addresses and device identifiers, and route data to its company server. The iPhone […]
