SOCIAL NETWORK Facebook has launched a security feature called Trusted Contacts to make it easier for users to recover hacked accounts. Facebook announced the new account recovery feature on Thursday and has already added it for all of its users. The social network explained that Trusted Contacts are essentially emergency contacts for its service, [...]
Around 400 B.C., Socrates was brought to trial on charges of corrupting the youth of Athens and “impiety.” Presumably, however, people believed then as we do now, that Socrates’ real crime was being too clever and, not insignificantly, a royal pain to those in power or, as Plato put it, a gadfly. Just as a [...]
The untimely death of the young Internet activist Aaron Swartz, apparently by suicide, has prompted an outpouring of reaction in the digital world. Foremost among the debates being reheated — one which had already grown in the wake of larger and more daring data breaches in the past few years — is whether Swartz’s activities [...]
An extremely well attended talk by Hugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs AG in Germany, about the completely realistic scenario of plane hijacking via a simple Android app has galvanized the crowd attending the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam today. Teso, who has been working in IT for the last eleven years [...]
Let’s say you’re driving and otherwise minding your own business, when like a scene out of Mission Impossible, a malicious hacker launches a “Self Destruct” attack on your vehicle. It could happen according to the Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security. “It starts when a 60-second timer pops up on a car’s digital dashboard and [...]
Hacking a car, once the stuff of spy novels and science fiction, is fast becoming a serious threat, forcing the industry to consider how to protect vehicles against cyber attacks. “Cars are becoming connected devices,” said Ralf Lamberti, head of telematics and infotainment at Daimler. “[We’re] protecting vehicles with state of the art [equipment] to [...]
Gaping security holes are a pretty terrifying thing, especially when they involve something as sensitive as your Apple ID. Sadly it seems that immediately after making the paranoid happy by instituting two-step authentication a pretty massive flaw in Cupertino’s system was discovered and first reported by The Verge. Turns out you can reset any Apple [...]
A platform where we will be discussing security and the latest threats Email account Security Laptop Security Facebook Security Wireless Security Bluetooth Security Website security Participant will be able to detect how to notice when they have been hacked They will also be able to prevent themselves from being hacked. How facebook accounts gets hacked [...]
Your computer starts to run a little weird. You notice the drive light blinking when you aren’t doing anything and the system seems a little slow. In the middle of writing an important document for work your system suddenly reboots for no reason. At first you may shrug it off, then you notice some weird [...]
Two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio are under arrest for the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl. Newly leaked video sheds more light on what may have happened to a girl who told police she was raped by these high school football players in August. Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond- have been arrested [...]
