Regardless of how tough is the anti-virus you use, how strict you are at sharing and receiving files from others, how carefully you deal with the links in the emails you receive, and what kind of Operating System you use, criminal minds will always find ways to fool you. In recent times, most of the hacks and crimes that we [...]
A few days back I purchased an external hard drive. Since then, all the websites I visit have started displaying me hard drive and storage media ads. It feels as if they know what I’ve been doing. Weird, eh? Not really. Let’s take a step back and see how a website like ours generate revenue. Unlike television, you don’t pay [...]
Internet is among the best thing that has happened to humanity, but cool as it is, it too has severe problems – problems with security, problems with privacy, problems with identity and sometime the stuff associating to you. In the movie ‘The Social Network‘, Erica Albright berates Mark Zuckerberg for making personal remarks about her on his blog and points [...]
Many websites, usually those that count on ads to generate revenue, use personal data stored inside the computer only to extend their gains, while putting the web-surfer in a vulnerable position. The most known client of this type is Google (not the website itself, but any that runs on AdSense) and most of all, Facebook. Each of theme retrieve precious [...]
Mozilla Firefox, one of the best Internet browsers in the world, now at its 15th version is taking another step in providing users with top notch quality add-ons and tools for everyone from web developers to the common Internet user. Also, thanks to its great success, in the near future we are expecting a new mobile OS to hit the [...]
Always wanted to capture picture of your friends without letting them know? Well, Photojojo comes with a new, simple product, which can be attached to most SLR cameras and allows their owners to take stealthy, paparazzi-like pictures without letting the subjects know what even hit them. All of these marvels come at an affordable price and by using a fairly [...]
Privacy is something that we all take very seriously. This is why developers are trying to bring us apps that can ensure our files remain private, far from the prying eyes of strangers. Such apps were featured in our article on File Locker Apps, available for both Android and iOS devices and we recommend checking out those apps too, there [...]
In this day, nothing is more valuable than data. Companies like Google, Facebook, Apple and even government agencies like NSA want your data. And most of these things happen under the guise of security & ‘for your own good’. Microsoft is no different in this regard. Nadim Kobeissi, a Montreal based independent computer security researcher and hacker, has uncovered a [...]
The number of mobile subscribers has grown to 5.6 billion, which represents almost 80% of the world’s entire population. Almost everybody nowadays has a mobile phone. Recently, the subject of privacy has been debated a lot all over the world, with netizens, first of all, trying to fight all kind of laws that seem to be intented towards destroying our [...]
On the ViewPoint talkshow with Eliot Spitzer, three whistle blowers from the National Security Agency (NSA), Thomas Drake, Kirk Wiebe and William Binney have expressed their allegations surrounding NSA’s illegal domestic surveillance measures. The whistle blowers specifically refer to 9/11 as the date after which electronic surveillance has taken new heights. This means that enormous amounts of email, cell phone conversations have [...]
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