Uber database breach exposed 50000 drivers

Uber released a statement on Friday announcing that it suffered a data breach in 2014 that affected 50 000 Uber drivers across the United States. The Uber’s database was accessed by an unauthorized third party. Uber says that 50 000 driver partner names and driver’s license numbers

Federal Communications Commission approve net neutrality rules

  The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday voted to approve new rules on how the internet should be governed. New rules will prohibit internet service providers from discriminating against content producers. “Who determines how you use the internet? Who decides what content you can view and when? Should there

Google warns Blogger users over porn: clean up or the content will be made private

  Google has warned users of its Blogger platform: “content which contains sexually explicit images and videos will be made private in one month. We will not delete the blogs, but they will no longer be publicly visible”, the tech giant says. The new rules require any blog with “sexually explicit or

Android phones can be tracked just with battery power alone

  We all know that a phone uses more power the further away it is from a cell tower as it tries to connect. So, an Android phone can be tracked by studying their power use over time, without using their GPS or wi-fi/data usage. Extra power is used by

PwC: cyber attacks caused damage to companies estimated at 2.7 billion. dollars

  Number of cyber security incidents detected in companies in 2014 increased by 48% over the previous year, reaching 42.8 million global events, apparent from an analysis performed by PwC – The Global State of Information Security Survey 2015, based on the responses of 9,700 managers responsible

Father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, warns of upcoming “Digital Dark Age”

In the past two years, big names oftech entrepreneurs and scientists who actively participated in the digital era evolution have expressed concern about the evolution of technology, whether we talk about about the risks involved out of control artificial intelligence or about things less “SF”. Vint Cerf, known as the

Software Defined Networking (SDN), the next Eldorado of IT

    Few people know , SDN has everything it takes to become a new standard of IT. Basically, SDN brings a global expansion of  virtualization from hardware and storage to further infrastructure networks. Thus, interventions on the networks will not require a manual configuration, a direct intervention

Forbes.com attacked by Chinese hackers

Chinese hackers attacked Forbes.com web site with an malicious software (malware) that target only certain visitors, which include several US defense institutions and financial services, according to cyber security companies, iSIGHT. According to iSIGHT and Invincea, someone compromised this application for three days (November 28 until December 1, 2014) or

The Carbanak hacking group stole $1 billion from the accounts of several banks

A group of hackers called Carbanak stole about $1 billion from the accounts of several banks and financial sector companies around the world from 2013 to the present, in a unprecedented banking hack, said the cyber security company from Russia, Kaspersky Lab. The group, called “Carbanak” by

How to get $12500 from Facebook

Two days ago I posted an article about a Facebook vulnerability that allows deleting any photo. The person who discovered the vulnerability said on it’s personal blog that Facebook payed him $12500 for reporting this vulnerability. If you want to read about the vulnerability that Laxman Muthiyah