Modern smartphones have enough horsepower to  do just about most of the stuff you do on your PC.

There are apps for everyone, but no one really bothered about Security expperts/admins/ network gurus. Nickmpetty thought about this and .. Read Further »

You won’t see this happening everyday. The Chip giant buys a security software giant, out of nowhere.

Intel, the biggest chip-hardware player, is buying software/security maker McAfee for $7.7 billion, a huge 60% premium  over yesterday’s market price.

ATM Hacking has been popular for years. With some nasty tricks, it had been easy to hack into most ATM systems.

But as the time evolved, those methods became obsolete and hardly few of those  hacks still persist and the ones that remain in sight are relative harder and un-popular.

With the latest Hack, as demoed at BlackHat conference, it can get pretty easy. Barnaby Jack, director of security testing at Seattle-based IOActive,  brought two ATMs onto the Black Hat conference stage and demonstrated that with a press of a button, ATM machine is spits out its .. Read Further »

If you are on facebook, and believe that its is a safe place to share your Personal stuff, take this: User data for  171 Million Facebook profiles has been leaked on to Torrents.

Facebook recently announced 500 Million users, of which 100 Million are leaked and are fully available, uncesored, unaltered for download on PirateBay. Every 3rd profile is available, and if these not so lucky users had most stuff in “info” tab open to Public, congratulations, its all in there.

Background:

A researcher, Ron Bowes, has compiled a list of more than 170 million Facebook users and the Web address of their profile page on the site and .. Read Further »

Everyone is complaining about Facebook’s privacy negligence: The configuration to control privacy is hard for most users to adjust, as a result of which, most users are unaware of the privacy hit everytime the post on Facebook.

Forget privacy, a newly discovered Bug in Facebook lets hackers delete Victim’s Facebook friends, without permission.

How far can softwares hackers reach? Perhaps, everywhere where software reaches? In a world where a complete PC can be hacked with a USB stick, everything appears possible.

In a paper[ by autosec], the security researchers claim that by connecting to a standard diagnostic computer port included in late-model cars, they were able to do some Really nasty things, such as turning off the brakes, changing the speedometer reading, wishfully blowing hot air or music on the radio, and even locking passengers in the car.