NSA Wants To Track Smartphone Users Based on How They Type and Swipe

Just the way you swipe your smartphone screen is enough for your smartphone to identify you. Yes, it’s a Fact, not Fiction! The United States National Security Agency NSA has a new technology that can identify you from the way your finger swipe strokes and text on a smartphone screen, according t...

Privacy Goal: More Controls in Users' Hands

SAN FRANCISCO – The same companies that brought, among other things, facial recognition into your living rooms and the ability to record video to your eyewear, swear the next big thing in privacy is putting more controls in your hand. The privacy officers of Microsoft, Google and Facebook said...

New Coalition Launches Fight Against Patriot Act Section 215

A broad group of civil-rights, technology and political groups from across the spectrum has developed a new initiative to advocate for the repeal of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act, the part that provides the authority for the bulk collection of phone metadata and other information. The new...

Your Location has been Shared 5,398 Times in Last 14 Days

Do you realize how often your smartphone is sharing your location data with various companies? It is more than 5000 times in just two weeks. That is little Shocking but True! A recent study by the security researchers from Carnegie Mellon reveals that a number of smartphone applications collect...

Debian DLA-20-1 : munin security update

Christoph Biedl - munin-node: more secure state file handling, introducing a new plugin state directory root, owned by uid 0. Then each plugin runs in its own UID plugin state directory, owned by that UID. Closes: 684075, Closes: 679897, closes CVE-2012-3512. - plugins: use runtime...

Masscan Port Scanner

Masscan is a port scanning product. Use of this product might indicate an attempt to collect data regarding the target network, and use it for future attacks...

Difference Between Typical and Advanced Scalability Modes

Challenge Understanding the difference between Typical and Advanced scalability modes. Cause Depending on the size of the managed virtual environment, you can choose of the following Veeam ONE installation types: Typical -- this type of installation is recommended for small to medium environments...

Apple Admits Siri Voice Data is Being shared with Third Parties

It has been known from year 2013 that commands we have been whispering to Siri are being stored on Apple servers for up to two years for analysis, but this news might be the most shocking development yet. Apple admits that its Siri — an intelligent personal assistant for iPhone, iPad and iPod Tou...

NSA Rogers: We Need Frameworks for Cyber, Circumventing Crypto

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a conference-facing discussion with CNN’s Jim Sciutto this morning, NSA director and commander of U.S. Cyber Command, Mike Rogers, said legislators need to create a legal framework outside the NSA and FBI’s control that would establish norms of behavior for law enforcement and...

Markey Car Security Report Just the Start for Automakers

This may come as a surprise to one of you, but it turns out that computers and, by extension, things that contain computers, are vulnerable to attackers. That includes cars, something that the United States government has now discovered, and Sen. Edward Markey is now warning consumers that...

Samsung Admits Its Smart TV Is Spying On You

Is Your Smart TV Spying On You? You just need to make sure you don't hold any private conversations in front of the internet-connected TV. IS SMART TV GETTING TOO SMART? Smart TVs are connected to the Internet, and they are capable of collecting and transmitting our data. Samsung's Smart TV uses...

LabTech Database Backup Tasks Run Too Long

Challenge With Veeam Plug-in for LabTech, the database backup tasks run for an extended period of time. Cause This happens due to the growth of pluginveeambrsystemlog table. Solution The issue should be fixed in later releases. In the meantime, a workaround is available. Download the fix here...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: thermostat-1.0.6-1.fc20

Thermostat is a monitoring and instrumentation tool for the Hotspot JVM, with support for monitoring multiple JVM instances. The system is made up of two processes: an Agent, which collects data, and a Client which allows users to visualize this data. These components communicate via a...

FTC Urges IoT Privacy, Security at Consumer Electronics Show

In her keynote address yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez imagined the dystopic convergence of big data conglomerates and a ceaseless information gathering machine fueled by the constant connectivity ushered in by the so-call...

Uber’s Android app is Literally Malware?

The popular ride-sharing service Uber has been hit by various controversies lately, but now the things gone even worse for the company when a security researcher made a worrying discovery this week and claims, "Uber’s app is literally malware." The ride-hailing company is in disputes of handling...

Edward Snowden Effect on Privacy Attitudes

Serious concessions have been made about privacy post-Snowden, in particular about how personal information is processed and consumed online. Results from a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center of Washington, D.C., show that the Snowden leaks have raised consumers’ consciousness about not...

Lame Duck Senate to Vote on NSA Reforming USA FREEDOM Act

The United States Senate will move to vote on the USA FREEDOM Act before the current congressional session closes at the end of the year, a move that pleases digital rights groups. In its current form, the bill would ban the bulk collection of Americans’ private records while granting the...

Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Sends User Location and Safari Search Data to Apple

Apple's latest desktop operating system, known as Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, sends location and search data of users without their knowledge to Apple's remote servers by default whenever a user queries the desktop search tool Spotlight, which questions users' privacy once again. The technology firm...

Windows 10 Preview Has A Keylogger to Watch Your Every Move

This week Microsoft announced the next version of its Operating system, dubbed WIndows 10, providing Windows 10 Technical Preview release under its "Insider Program" in order to collect feedback from users and help shape the final version of the operating system, but something really went WRONG!...

Apple CEO Defends iMessage Security

Despite research published last year that demonstrated that Apple has the ability to decrypt users iMessages if it so chooses, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that the company does not hold the encryption key for those messages and couldn’t even produce the plaintext in response to a government order. In...