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The United States has had little luck with landing Kim Dotcom or Julian Assange, but it has managed to grab a hacker. Hamza Bendelladj, known online as Bx1 is an Algerian hacker who was captured and extradited from Thailand. He was arrested back in January while moving through the Bangkok airport on his way from Malaysia. Bendelladj stands accused of hijacking
In the United States we are supposed to have certain rights under the 4th amendment of the U.S. Constitution: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
Are you using LivingSocial? At the top of their website today is an important notice for customers that says “if you haven't already updated your LivingSocial password, please update it now”. According to CNN the LivingSocial website, which people use to get daily deals, suffered a cyberattack on some of its servers. Data for more than 50 million users may
Oracle's Java platform seems to be in an endless battle with Adobe Flash to see which can take the crown as the most compromised platform on your computer. Last week Oracle rolled out 42 patches for known security holes -- and this was just another day for the oft-attacked software. Now Security Explorations of Poland has announced it has found a new
Those of you who have been using VUDU to watch movies may have received a rather scary email recently. No, the company didn't get hacked. Instead, what happened was a physical break-in to their offices. Whoever did it walked away with multiple hard drives that contained important data such as customer names, encrypted passwords, addresses, and phone numbers. In other
Users of Evernote were recently sent an email that said that the company had decided to implement a password reset. It required 50 million users to reset their passwords. Why? The answer is the usual one when a company urges users to change their passwords – Evernote got hacked over the weekend. This explains the difficulties that my husband and
Abine is a start-up based in Boston that is aiming to enhance the online security of everyday users with things like privacy, encryption and more. There is a lot involved here and you will likely need to watch the video to understand where Abine is going - alias phone numbers, which the mobile app can block on a per-caller basis.