Category: Privacy

  • Rule 41 — FBI Gets Expanded Power to Hack any Computer in the World

    You just think this doesn’t apply to you.  It will in the very near future…  Are you LGBT, a person of color, have a religious preference other than Christianity, an advocate, a social reformer, a community leader, in the government, or ???  You will be losing your privacy rights. Hacking multiple computers across the world…

  • Dangerous Rootkit found Pre-Installed on nearly 3 Million Android Phones

    Luckily, not many US Android phones.  Just a matter of time before manufacturers install rootkits as a matter of course. Nearly 3 Million Android devices worldwide are vulnerable to man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that could allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code with root privileges, turning over full control of the devices to hackers. According to…

  • iPhone Secretly Sends Your Call History to Apple Even If iCloud Backups are Turned Off

    In the fight against encryption, Apple has positioned itself as a staunch defender of its user privacy by refusing the federal officials to provide encryption backdoors into its products, as well as implementing better encryption for its products. However, a new report from a security firm suggests Apple’s online syncing service iCloud secretly stores logs…

  • Shadow Brokers reveals list of Servers Hacked by the NSA

    Please take note of the following line:  “A  few target domains were based in Russia, and at least nine domains include .gov websites.” Yes, the NSA is hacking our own government…  At what point is an agency deemed out of control? The hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers, who previously claimed to have leaked…

  • Why We Should All Dump Yahoo Now

    If you still have a yahoo account, security experts strongly recommend that you delete it today.  Recently it was leaked that Yahoo compromised the security and privacy of hundreds of millions of users by installing a secret program that searched all incoming emails at the request of US intelligence officials. “The order issued to Yahoo…

  • Here’s Why You Should Delete Your Yahoo Account Right Now

    Yahoo’s troubles don’t seem to be ending anytime soon. A Reuters’s report has just dropped a massive bombshell on the company, suggesting that Yahoo complied with a U.S. government request and implemented a secret software to scan all the emails. CEO Marissa Mayer gave green signal without any counsel with company’s security head Alex Stamos. Later, in protest,…

  • Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked by ‘State Sponsored’ Hackers

    “State-sponsored actor”? This is what happens when privacy and personal information is stepped on: the people paid to protect you are the perps… 500 million Yahoo accounts have been compromised and company believes a “state-sponsored actor” was behind this data breach Source: Yahoo Confirms 500 Million Accounts Were Hacked by ‘State Sponsored’ Hackers

  • Cisco finds new Zero-Day Exploit linked to NSA Hackers

    If it wasn’t for hackers, you would have no idea what your government is doing to erode your privacy and security. How secure do you feel now? Network equipment vendor Cisco is finally warning its customers of another zero-day vulnerability the company discovered in the trove of NSA’s hacking exploits and implants leaked by the…

  • Google makes 2-Factor Authentication a lot Easier and Faster

    Two-Factor Simplicity! Two-factor authentication is important & necessary, but a real pain in the butt.  This new process by Google is a breeze! I enabled and in a few seconds had authenticated with a press of a button on my phone. Get on it people! When it comes to data breaches of major online services…

  • Top 10 Common Hacking Techniques You Should Know About

    Using simple hacks, a hacker can be able to know about your personal unauthorized information. Knowing about these common hacking techniques for yourself Source: Top 10 Common Hacking Techniques You Should Know About