security

Blockchain Technology Is Great for Any Distributed Transactions – Interview with Sam Rehman, Arxan

August 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

Bitcoin, as well as other cryptocurrencies, are at all-time high in popularity, as more and more people hear about it and decide to invest. The attraction of this technology [...]

Hackers use ransomware to target hotel guests’ door locks

January 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

A bunch of hackers spoiled several travelers’ trip to the Alps last week when the group used ransomware to attempt to lock guests of the Romantik Seehotel Jägerwir luxury [...]

Ransomware app hosted in Google Play infects unsuspecting Android user

January 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

Google Play, the official market for Android apps, was caught hosting a ransomware app that infected at least one real-world handset, security researchers said Tuesday. The [...]

Facial recognition will replace passports in Australia

January 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

Australia has started implementing biometric facial, iris and fingerprint recognition in airports, allowing passengers to go through without showing a passport or even [...]

Minecraft link to net’s biggest botnet

January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments

Security blogger Brian Krebs has spent months investigating the attack which knocked his blog offline. He claims that the origins of the Mirai botnet can be traced back to [...]

Swiss cops use anti-drone guns at the World Economic Forum

January 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

Swiss authorities have added another security measure for this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos: anti-drone guns. Bloomberg has spotted local police preparing HP 47 [...]

12 million declassified CIA files are now available online

January 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

The CIA has posted a vast cache of nearly 12 million declassified CIA pages online, including info on Nazi war crimes, the Cuban Missile Crisis, UFO sightings, human [...]

The government’s public evidence falls short of proving Russian involvement in the DNC hack

January 16, 2017 // 0 Comments

On Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an updated report on whether or not Russia was responsible for both hacking the Democratic National [...]

Iran censored porn so hard it broke the internet in Hong Kong

January 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

If you had trouble visiting explicit websites in the last few days, the fault may have come from an unexpected source: Iran. According to a new report from The Verge, a [...]

At Least Nine Ontario Police Agencies Helped Deploy Secret Surveillance Gear

January 5, 2017 // 0 Comments

At least nine police agencies in Ontario participated in a provincial program to deploy secret surveillance equipment in the province’s largest cities, according to [...]