In news that should shock absolutely nobody, scammers have been trying to cash in on Whitney Houston's death. One trick: links floating around Facebook purporting to contain a video of Houston's autopsy that "reveals a shocking secret that explains her death."
Amid news of a new hack that lets people go into a phone’s settings and reset the Google Wallet pin, Google has announced that it’s disabling prepaid cards until a permanent fix can be found.
You probably won’t see the Wallet Cracker app in the Android Market anytime soon. In a video posted by security firm Zvelo, the program exposes the pin number of a Google Wallet account within seconds.
At its CES booth in the Las Vegas Convention Center’s North Hall, SecurityMan has been showing some products that don’t work. I don’t mean that as a criticism. Along with its security products, it had a whole wall of dummy cameras–budget-priced fakes designed to make intruders think that you’re carefully monitoring your property when you aren’t.
Don’t like Facebook Timeline? Too bad, because you’re stuck with it. And cynical scammers are taking advantage of those looking to revert back to the old design.
Carrier IQ and other smartphone apps allow for unprecedented surveillance. And it’s all legal.
It had to happen; after years of science-fiction stories where heroes are recruited through video games that are actually tests of their abilities, a secret service has gone all Last Starfighter and set up a fake website designed to recruit potential hackers, ensuring that they only use their powers for good.
SplashData, a company that offers a “complete password management and security solution,” culled from data stolen and posted online by hackers some of the most awesomely bad (and yet commonly used) passwords of all time.
At the SysCan conference in Taiwan this week, security researcher Charlie Miller will describe a flaw he discovered in the iPhone’s web browser that allows a malicious app installed on the phone to download executable code from a remote server. Miller is well-known for finding security flaws in Apple software, and this latest instance could be the most serious flaw he’s uncovered yet.
When Valve revealed last night that its Steam online gaming service had been hacked and a database with user login and credit card info gutted, was anyone surprised?
A poll of 1,649 internet users found that 64.2% of women rejected friend requests from strangers, while only 55.4% of men did, with men more likely to accept a request if it came from a “hot-looking woman.”
