Make sure your phone is secure, not a liability! About a decade ago, Microsoft let everyone know that the future of payment was using their phones and devices enabled with Bluetooth. While that never really happened, Google’s push for mobile payment seems to be much timelier and actually gaining traction. With popular phones using Google’s … Read more →
The first safe was invented by brothers Charles and Jeremiah Chubb in 1835. The purpose of their invention was, simply put, to create a box that was durable and secure enough to prevent a thief’s efforts to steal its contents. This invention was enhanced in 1886 when Henry Brown created a metal safe that would … Read more →
Millions of people use smartphones, and particularly the iPhone. In fact, the new iPhone was reported to have sold millions within just a couple of days. It’s a phone that can do a wide variety of things, leaving many people to long for the opportunity to monitor what someone is doing on the device. This … Read more →
So you’ve got that android phone that you always dreamed of! Unpacked it, charged it and loved it. Started downloading apps or games and everything seems rosy in this picture perfect world. But can you download every app? How about trying to install some custom themes? What if you aren’t that satisfied with the in-built … Read more →
More than 80 million people in America use E-mails to connect with a lot of people across the globe and another 100 million surf the web to find different information and interact with the web. Although the number of online user is so high, only a few are able to protect their computer from major … Read more →
The subject of this article is what I often ask people I know are not very computer/tech savvy, because often they have no clue about backup or they know it’s something that they “should be doing”, but they either don’t know how or just “haven’t gotten around to it yet”.In almost every single case the … Read more →
Identity theft is a natural outgrowth of the technological advancements society has made. Just as sure as people are able to manage their finances and make their purchases in ways completely unthinkable in the 1960s and 1970s, so too have the ways in which criminals have sought to steal from the public. Now, there are … Read more →
Mega professional social networking website LinkedIn is losing face due to a mass security breach that left 6.5 million user passwords splashed all over the Internet. After a Russian forum user claimed that he hacked LinkedIn and leaked passwords online, Twitter users confirmed that they discovered their encoded LinkedIn passwords online. This breach in security … Read more →
All around the world, data is constantly being created. Some of it is trivial, and its loss would not be too traumatic, but some data is so valuable that losing it could have disastrous consequences. Many businesses have suffered due to data loss, and some have had to cease operations altogether. It is not only … Read more →
Troubled Internet company Yahoo! has another problem to deal with. On Thursday, it confirmed that Yahoo! Voices had 450,000 user passwords and email addresses stolen from its database. Surprisingly, every password had been stored in plaintext or unencrypted, so that anyone could read them. And it wasn’t only email addresses that were compromised. Gmail, Hotmail, … Read more →
There is always a time in a security application’s life when the bouncer becomes the bounced. Yes, we are referring to the Google Bouncer, the initially appreciated Android app store gatekeeper, which seems to have hit its puberty a bit too hard. According to Google, the percentage of Android users who were infected by malware … Read more →
The amount of malware aimed toward Android devices continue to increase. Hundreds of thousands of Android devices are already infected with Malware from the official Android app store, known as “Google Play”, according to a study by Trend Micro (who happens to a maker of antivirus software, obviously…) Also according to “The H Security”, the … Read more →
Hi-tech attacks can really unplug this economy. Forget about the gas prices soaring and food prices spiking because the new threat to the economy is now emerging. The problem Hackers are now attacking vital American industries that are growing quick. That includes cyber attacks on oil and gas facilities, power plants or water supply. And … Read more →
In this cyber overloaded world, we sure love our technical devices. But in the expanding mobile universe, there are others lurking around that love our devices too – in fact they love them so much that they would love to snatch them away from us. Regardless if it’s a device or even your identity, we … Read more →
Traveling comes with a variety of inconveniences. Being unable to access the German websites can be one of the worst. Fortunately, there is a quick and easy solution. Using a German VPN allows users to access German websites from outside the country. The same VPN can allow travelers to access websites that are blocked by … Read more →
Getting infected by malware is not difficult today. There are tons of places where malware are hosted and easily infect a machine if you are not careful. Sometimes, your computer’s life can still be save with a little help of antivirus and firewall but not always you are so lucky because not all antivirus block … Read more →