The end of Internet Explorer is finally here. Series of events: Google Hacking, removal of support for Google apps, several other vulnerabilities are forcing users to move to alternates. Recently, at Black Hat DC conference, a security consultant (Jorge Luis Alvarez Medina) demoed how it’s possible to exploit a flaw in Internet Explorer browser that turns your personal computer into a public file server. In other words, attacker can Read further »

Who was that someone shouting loud that only Jailbreaking makes iPhone insecure?  We now have a new App that makes even an UnModified/Virgin iPhone leak personal data like you have never seen before. A Swiss iPhone developer has unveiled a new application that is capable of harvesting huge amounts of personal data from iPhones, including geolocation data, passwords, address book entries and email accounts information, images, Safari Browsing history, youtube, keyboard logger, etc. all this using just the public API exposed by Apple’s Read further »

With over 350 Million users on Facebook and adding severall 100,000s everyday, the world had been truly holding their privacy at Facebook’s stake. Often, Facebook `s apps been known for their scam activity. For those who don’t know, the most popular game FarmVille is nothing but  ScamVille, and KoobFace is one worm that almost infected millions. Everything that you now do on Facebook is configurable. Users can now designate content they post as being viewable to just Read further »

Google is God, and that is the reason why we fear it. It knows everything we do, monitors our email, contacts, IM, friends, search, web behavior, like n dislikes and what not. Earlier, like million others, we raised concerns over Googple Apps and Privacy, can we trust Google? Finally, Google has taken a wise decision to counter the concern. The step is to comply with Data Liberation Front. Starting Today, Google will give you the power to manage the Data Read further »

Since a while, Google has been monitoring People activity and traffic behavior in the most popular regions around the Globe. The purpose: to make a virtual replica of the real world. Back in the days, it needed a undercover agent to spy on one person, Today all you need is Google Earth to do it on whole community. Using motion capture data the Google Earth has succeeded in mapping and animating the real time movements of cars, people and clouds. proper version the application is coming up next month. By that time, they are expected to add  weather patterns, birds and river motions to that list. Georgia Institute of Technology’s students are Read further »

HTML 5 comes with alot of promise for the web.  It has lot of new features that could make Web Browsers and Apps much more powerful than they ever were. Let’s go by an example. Try accessing Gmail on iPhone or Android phone,  you will have notice some differences from what it used to be a month ago. The new thing worth noticing is the introduction of the offline access. Gmail Read further »

Security and privacy is important. But most gadgets available int he market let you achieve this at couples of hundreds of Dollars. Not every one can afford it. So here is a DIY Tutorial which doesn’t even need any special hardware. Most notebooks come with WebCams or most people have it separately plugged-in via USB. If you don’t have it, not a big deal, they cost around $10-40. We will use a free software accompanying your cam that will together make a Fool Proof motion detection system. Highlight cam is a free software you can register online and start monitoring immediately and make your PC a security system and act as a silent security guard for your office, Home or any other Read further »

Recently, there had been privacy concerns over Palm Pre. Palm Pre secretly stored user activity and data which can be pulled by the service provider or a potential hacker. Joey Hess discovered the Pre’s smartphone OS was sending users’ GPS locations back to Palm on a daily basis. According to Joey “ I’ve been taking a closer look at the WebOS side of my Palm Pre tonight, and I noticed that it periodically uploads information to Palm, Inc. The first thing sent is intended to be my GPS location. It’s the same location I get if I open the map app on the Pre. Not very accurate in this case, but I’ve seen it be accurate enough to find my house before. “ Yeah, it’s allowed by the EULA that you must accept to use the Palm Pre. Read further »

How big can a theft be? 100s of credit card no.s and total amount of millions? Wrong. Today, this theft is much bigger than any one has ever seen. 130 Million Credit card numbers, a total theft that when mis-used can lead to multi-billion theft. A Miami based person and two Russian guys are being indicted to be guilty for stealing 130 million credit card numbers, the largest identity theft in history. That’s alot — like, one for every housing unit in the United States. How did they do it? The theft had been living over years of work. This historic theft involved five corporate data hackings, between 2006 and 2008, including Heartland, Hannaford, 7-Eleven and two unnamed companies, according to Channel Web. US investigators say the team scanned Read further »

Cloud has brought us unlimited and unmatched processing power that we could never think of a decade ago. Earlier, I wrote how cloud computing was actually a Dark (Cloud) Knight. And the joker was successful in showing the Gotham that even the best among us could fall. This finds a corollary in the cloud computing world. A Look back at the Benefits: Cloud storage offers some exciting advantages. It offers “pay as you go”, with no capital outlay and no need to buy extra equipment in anticipation of Read further »