Vodafone operates in 29 countries in Europe and Asia. Its report sheds light on the ‘hows and wheres’ of government spying on calls. It was published despite risk to company employees in those countries. The legacy of Edward Snowden continues. “The report focuses on the two categories of law enforcement demands that account for the overwhelming majority of all such activity: lawful interception and access to communications data.” – ZDNet That ris...
Just to inform all Springpad users that indeed, it’s about to die. It will shut down on June 25th. You should have gotten an email confirmation of this with instructions on how to export your data to “Evernote” (which they’ll do for you). If you choose another app, they’ll email your data to you as a .json file which you can incorporate into your new app of choice. In their blog notification , they do say there will be another export app coming from them: “We ar...
Just to warn you all. This is a phishing scam designed to steal your identity. This is what it looks like:
Because MS has ended support for XP (unless you’re the IRS), the devs of TrueCrypt has ended development of its software. When this notification came out, the wisely suspicious of hackers surfaced, but it’s true…TrueCrypt is dead. You can still get it, but it’s digitally signed with the warning (SourceForge). It will allow you to decrypt your encrypted files/disk, but you won’t be able to encrypt new files. The warning has instructions on how to move to MS’s BitLocker services. ...
Koler is a piece of malware which threatens Android users with action by legal authorities if they don’t pay a steep fine, the owner’s data is not encrypted, but he/she is locked out of his/her device until the ‘fine’ or ‘ransom’ is paid. Honestly? It was just a matter of time until the criminals decided to go after Android devices: It only depended on the numbers sold. Android phones? Sales will approach 1 billion this year. The method of infection is the same as Windows:...
It’s supposed to be protecting you, right? Well, it is, but it’s doing more as well. AV-Comparatives issued a report delineating what info your AV collects and transmits back to company. Some aren’t listed here…BitDefender, for example. However, the principle is very disturbing. These companies are getting the full list of webpages and documents. They’re doing it for various reasons, BUT this information could be used by a potentially unscrupulous vendo...
Because Google knows best. One size fits all. Also because Google is concerned with possibly malicious extensions. When you open Chrome, you might see this: As usual, an article in gHacks will explain to you what to do to remedy this. There are a few things you can do, however there might be cases where the solution might not work, unfortunately. Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2014/05/28/unsupported-extensions-disabled-re-enable-blocked-extensions-chrome...
Here’s hoping you didn’t wake up this morning to a ransom notice from the hacker/hackers known as “Oleg Pliss”. This goes for iPhones, iPads, and Mac users whose devices are being held ransom until a $50-$150 ransom is paid. Apple blog threads detail how the hack was accomplished through Apple’s own Find My iPhone feature ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6270410?start=0&tstart=0 ). “Fortunately, those who had set passcodes were able to regain access, be...
Everyone knows that since mid April, XP is no longer being supported by MS (unless you’re the IRS) and you’d become “officially vulnerable”. Not so fast. This just in from reporter Hankers: There’s a registry hack for XP which will allow you to receive security updates as if you were ‘Windows embedded POS ready 2009’. Per Neowin , the hack was first reported in betanews and ZDNet confirmed it. This will allow security updates until 2...
It’s currently in the beta stage. It was even seen on Gray’s Anatomy. In fact, it’s even been tested successfully by surgeons at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petah Tikvah, Tel Aviv. For the Schneider trial concluded in October 2013, RealView Imaging used real-time data from 3D cardiac ultrasound and 3D interventional X-ray systems made by the Dutch-based Philips Healthcare. The trial successfully proved the real-time feasibility of using holographic vis...
Engadget came up with an interesting article about one in the Atlantic about the germinal thinking about the internet which involved a Belgian genius by the name of Paul Otlet (whom no one remembers) who in 1934 described a plan for a global network of “ electronic telescopes ” that would enable people all over the world to access a huge library of books, articles, films, photos and audio recordings. Sound familiar? Even better: He wrote about wireless net...
There’s been an apparently successful cyberattack on eBay. Thanks for pm’ing me, Hank. eBay issued a statement in which they’re asking users to change their passwords because of an attack which compromised their database of encrypted passwords and non-financial data: “Cyberattackers compromised a small number of employee log-in credentials, allowing unauthorized access to eBay's corporate network, the company said. Working with law enforcement and leading securit...
Kaspersky has notified that it’s found fake Kaspersky apps in these online stores. Kaspersky Mobile is fake, although it uses Kaspersky’s logo. It costs $4, and claims to protect your phone/tablet. It does nothing. Actually? Be grateful. It could have been ransomware in disguise. Kaspersky has NEVER made an app called Kaspersky Mobile nor any mobile app for the Windows Phone platform. Kaspersky Virus Shield and Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2014 are also bogus. ‘Virus Shield’ (anot...
Comcast is a very big ISP. Comcast executive V.P. David Cohen is quoted as saying recently that caps are going to be reinstated sometime within the next five years. He insisted that this is a much fairer system as those who use less bandwidth will pay less. Wanna bet? I still remember when cable t.v. was sold as television without commercials. How’s that working for you? True, on one level apples and oranges. They maintain that this keeps the cost down. That’s code for ‘this ma...
The ‘But it’s on the Internet, so it’s free’ questions always come up. The fact it’s on the internet doesn’t mean it’s free, or that you can use it any way you please. “There's a simple solution: search for images "licensed for reuse" -- images that you may legally use. Both Google and Bing may be set to show images with this license. The license exists thanks to Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization founded in 2001. The orga...