Samsung has been under heavy fire lately as recent security holes have popped up in the Galaxy Note 2 and Galaxy S3 making it possible for folks to bypass the device’s password-protected lock-screen without needing said password. The emergency dialer, the one that is accessible in case you need to dial 911 or other emergency [...]
Online institutions of all types are vulnerable to hacking, and Bitcoin is no exception: last week, hackers stole over $12,000 worth of Bitcoin currency from Bitinstant, one of the bigger Bitcoin transaction sites. As with many recent…
Google launched a Chrome Beta channel for Android users earlier this year, and the latest update has some welcome usability tweaks — and an experimental data compression feature that the company says will result in “substantial”…
Evernote took swift action after detecting an unwelcome intrusion on its servers last week; unwilling to take any chances, the company required each and every user of its popular productivity app suite to reset their password. That’s …
It appears Samsung’s phones are a tad insecure. A new flaw has been uncovered by a user that puts the home-screen of a user’s locked device at risk. In case you don’t know, the pattern and password unlock screens on Samsung phones offer access to the emergency dialer. From there, you can access the user’s [...]
Some startling news has come to the forefront for those of you who frequently use premier note-taking service Evernote. The company issued an email blast to all its users detailing an unfortunate security breach that puts all its users at risk. Evernote warns us that the culprit’s actions allowed them access to the usernames, email [...]
Popular note-taking service Evernote has reset all user passwords after information including usernames, email addresses, and encrypted passwords was stolen in a security breach. A warning on the service’s official blog &mdash…
A security flaw in Apple’s iOS 6.1 lets anyone bypass your iPhone password lock and access your phone app, view or modify contacts, check your voicemail, and look through your photos (by attempting to add a photo to a contact)…
There’s little doubt that the venerable password, the internet’s primary authentication tool, is buckling under the strain of both trying to protect a huge variety of information as well as the constant threat of hackers tryin…
“The Temple Run. To the unaware masses that I see every day on the bus, it’s just a silly mobile game to pass time. I shudder every time I think about it. Temple Run had a much different meaning to me.
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