The future of cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment will not be discovered in your medication cabinet, rather in your kitchen cabinet or in your back yard growing on a tree. Pomegranate Found To Prevent Coronary Artery Disease Development A research study released in the journal Atherosclerosis validates that pomegranate extract …
Read More »WhatsApp chats should be considered “compromised”, says Dutch student after finding encryption flaws
A Dutch computer science student has said that all users on WhatsApp, a popular messaging alternative to SMS, should consider their chats compromised after he has found flaws in the encryption used in the app. “You should assume that anyone who is able to eavesdrop on your WhatsApp connection is …
Read More »WhatsApp CEO: Encryption flaw story is “sensationalised and overblown”
WhatsApp’s CEO Jan Koum has told TechGeek that a Dutch computer science student’s claims that all messages should be considered compromised are “inaccurate”, and that the entire story has been “sensationalised and overblown”. The Dutch computer science student – Thijs Alkemade from Utrecht University – this week found several flaws in …
Read More »D-Link router backdoor vulnerability discovered
A rather worrying security vulnerability has been discovered which is affecting several D-Link branded modem routers. Posted on a website dedicated to Embedded Device Hacking, /dev/ttyS0, the vulnerability was discovered when one of its writers reverse engineered a firmware update from D-Link. The security vulnerability will allow full access into the …
Read More »Yahoo Mail to have HTTPS encryption by default – finally
Yahoo has finally announced that it will turn on HTTPS encryption by default for Yahoo Mail next year – four years after Google announced the same thing for Gmail, and two years for Microsoft during the transition between Hotmail and Outlook (it was an option in Hotmail in 2010). Incidentally, the …
Read More »Edward Snowden delivers ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ in UK
Edward Snowden – the former NSA contractor who leaked documents of mass surveillance by intelligence agencies – has been chosen to present this year’s ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ on Channel 4 in the UK. Snowden uses the Alternative Christmas Message – which is now available online (you will need to login to watch …
Read More »Schoolkid finds a security flaw on govt website, and now he might be charged
Public Transport Victoria is now seeking to have a schoolkid charged for cybercrime, despite said schoolkid alerted them to a security vulnerability that would allow someone to access the personal information of nearly 600,000 public transport users. The database was for the old Metcard store – which was shut down …
Read More »Dropbox “partial leak” from Anonymous-linked group is a fake, designed to troll tech press
The Anonymous-linked hacking group 1775 Sec has now confirmed that their attack on Dropbox is a fake. While the group claims that the DDOS attack was real, the data breach claim was designed to troll the tech press. “That was some serious Lulz. We DDoS attack DropBox! After it’s down …
Read More »Syrian Electronic Army takes over Xbox social media accounts
A group purporting to be the Syrian Electronic Army – a hacking collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – has said taken over the social media profiles belonging to Xbox. This comes after another Microsoft-owned property, Skype, also had their social media profiles hijacked by the group. Images posted by …
Read More »More Microsoft accounts hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army
It appears more Microsoft accounts have been hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group that are supporters of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The group were able to successfully take over the Microsoft News Twitter account and the Official Microsoft Blog. @Official_SEA16 This post took 154 Retweets 🙂 …
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