Collaborate Disseminate
That estimate, based on criminal activity and losses reported to Action Fraud, represents an average of £210 for every UK resident age 16 and up.
Continue reading Online crime leads to losses of £10.9 billion a year
Another blow to the Tor Project: One of the Tor Project’s earliest contributors has decided to quit the project and shut down all of the important Tor nodes under his administration.
Lucky Green was part of the Tor Project before the anonymity network… Continue reading Core Tor Contributor Leaves Project; Shutting Down Important Tor Nodes
Online banking is a prime target for cybercriminals. And mobile banking threats are also on the rise. That’s why you should follow these 12 steps for safer online banking.Categories: 101
How-tosTags: online bankingonline securityphishing(Read more…) Continue reading 12 steps to safer online banking
A mobile advertising company that settled charges with the Federal Trade Commission this week will pay nearly $1M after it was determined the company tracked customers – including children – without their consent. Continue reading Mobile Advertising Firm Found Tracking Users To Pay $950K
Dashlane, the New York startup that provides a platform for users to manage their passwords and online identities across multiple sites and apps, has raised a further $22.5 million in funding and picked up a key strategic investor and partner in … Continue reading Password management startup Dashlane, now with 5M users, raises $22.5M led by TransUnion
“Talent has no Age Limit”
That’s what I said for a 10-year-old Finnish boy on our official Facebook page while sharing his recent achievement with our readers i.e. Winning $10,000 bug bounty from Instagram.
Last Tuesday when we at The Hacker News first acknowledged this talented boy and the flaw he discovered in image-sharing social network Instagram, I did not have an idea that the Facebook
Continue reading This 10-year-old Boy becomes the youngest Bug Bounty Hacker
In Brief
What if we could Predict when a cyber attack is going to occur before it actually happens and prevent it? Isn’t it revolutionary idea for Internet Security?
Security researchers at MIT have developed a new Artificial Intelligence-based cyber … Continue reading MIT builds Artificial Intelligence system that can detect 85% of Cyber Attacks
In Brief
Chrome apps and extensions make things easier, but they can also do terrible things like spy on web users and collect their personal data.
But, now Google has updated its browser’s User Data Policy requiring all Chrome extension and app developers to disclose what data they collect.
Furthermore, developers are prohibited from collecting unnecessary browsing data and must also use
Continue reading Google makes it mandatory for Chrome Apps to tell Users what Data they collect
Two Google engineers have developed a draft version of an API called WebUSB that would allow you to connect your USB devices to the Web safely and securely, bypassing the need for native drivers.
WebUSB – developed by Reilly Grant and Ken Rockot – has been introduced to the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Incubator Community Group (W3C WICG), is build to offer a universal platform that could
Continue reading WebUSB API — Connect Your USB Devices Securely to the Internet
Apple is serious this time to enhance its iPhone security that even it can not hack. To achieve this the company has hired one of the key developers of Signal — World’s most secure, open source and encrypted messaging app.
Frederic Jacobs, who worked to develop Signal, announced today that he is joining Apple this summer to work as an intern in its CoreOS security team.
“I’m delighted to
Continue reading Apple hires developer of World’s Most Secure Messaging App