The NSA is now even more infamous then they were before. Mostly in part due to the recent disclosures of Edward Snowden and the NSA top-secret online tracking activities and tools, such as Boundless Informant. But the NSA isn’t the only one who can have real-time search tracking results at their fingertips. You can too!
In yet another surprise turn of events, NSA PRISM leaker that has been missing in action since checking out of his plush hotel in Hong Kong turns up in the local HK South China Morning Post - with a new interview - and new shocking revelations about the NSA’s top secret activities.
Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist who has shown how to project patients’ thoughts onto a screen in front of their eyes by implanting electrodes deep inside their brains and reading the activity of cells. Oh, and he used to rob banks. “There are at least two people inside our mind.”
Is your favorite website experiencing problems today? There is a good chance that it is, since across the U.S. today there is a huge ~50% increase in malicious network attacks.
One of the most recent high-profile cases of a security breach happened to a reporter named Mat Honan. Mr. Honan’s accounts were hacked when malicious hackers were able to convince technical support representatives for both Apple and Amazon that they were, in fact, Mr. Honan himself.
It’s pretty common for the White House and official government websites to be attacked by hackers. For whatever reason the hacker may have, hacking the government, or even the White House, would be an extremely difficult task, that would bring a lot of bragging rights if accomplished.
Good news for all you out there in Internetland. For those of you that were going to websites and it was erroring out due to the Go Daddy DNS failure earlier today, Go Daddy has confirmed via their Twitter that the issue has been resolved in the past hour.
If you are having problems accessing websites today you can thank Anonymous for it. Starting a couple hours ago, godaddy.com websites started failing due to a DNS outage, which an Anonymous user is claiming responsibility for.
A hacker that goes by the name Reckz0r on Twitter has claimed that he was able to hack into over 79 banks from around the world and obtain credit card information of Visa and MasterCard customers. The efforts took several months according to him via some Twitter posts.
In true Facebook fashion, they are trying to get every possible bit of information from it’s 900+ million users. The next step will be a new message that will sit atop of your news feed, starting soon, and some are already seeing it. The new message will ask you to “stay in control of your account” and send you over to the Facebook Security page - where you can verify your mobile number with the social giant.
Yesterday was not a good day for LinkedIn who confirmed that 6.5 million passwords were hacked and then leaked to the web. Although it’s uncertain exactly what accounts have been compromised, LinkedIn urged all of it’s users to change their passwords immediately. However, more bad news has arrised that eHarmony was hacked too, with 1.5 million passwords being hacked and leaked as well from the online dating website.
In this day in age when our data is so important, losing or getting your iPhone stolen can be detrimental. Sure you can lock your iPhone, but it can be hacked into or you can even remote wipe your data, deleting it for good if it fell into the wrong hands.
Anonymous, the hacker group that you probably have heard of by now is doing something different to cause a disruption. Anon is trying to disrupt the music business, in a similar fashion as Napster or Limewire did as it’s predecessors, however not exactly in the same way making sure not to break any copyright sharing laws, which they need to be very careful of. Anon is building what they call Anontune, which will be a social music aggregation and discovery service.
Social Networking is hot stuff these days, so you know, and the FBI finally felt after several years to publish their own social networking brochure which gives you tips and advice on how to stay a step ahead of nefarious individuals trying to p4wn you on the Interwebs. But in all seriousness, it does have some good info if you aren’t hip to some common web terms such as ‘click-jacking’, ‘doxing’ or ‘pharming’.
Glitcher is a Facebook user that exploits the biggest social networking site in the world by using different script tricks and symbols called diacritics stacked upon each other to create chaos on his Facebook wall. It’s a bit of an art form if you ask me, and his skills display through his posts which really add some much needed flavor to Facebook which can be stagnate at times.
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