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LG’s smart TV’s may be too smart. A blogger who calls himself DoctorBeet wrote in a blog post earlier this week that he’d run a traffic analysis on his home router and found that whenever he switched the channel, his LG Smart TV would ping LG’s servers with the name of the channel, along with […]
A popular Instagram app called InstLike promised free followers and likes for using it. All it asked for was your username and password. Sounds ridiculous, but over 100,000 passwords were compromised. Symantec estimates that at least 100,000 users fell for the scam For almost an entire month, from Oct. 8 until Nov. 7, when it […]
At first it was thought that Obama’s Twitter account was hacked after a shortened link sent users to a Syrian account, however it was found to be the URL shortened software that was hijacked instead. By hijacking the URL shortener, they were able to redirect user’s to the link of their choice! Obama campaign group […]
Social Media’s poster boy, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and Chief Executive of Facebook was at the receiving end of what was initially considered a prank, when his Facebook profile page was hacked by an IT security Researcher from Palestine, named Khalil Shreateh. Khalil on his part claims that he had tried to contact Facebook, and warn […]
Twitter has faced a lot of criticism over its handling of death and rape threats against British feminist Caroline Criado-Perez. The feminist, whose campaigns have led to renowned British author Jane Austen being pictured on every ten pound bill, was subjected to a daylong barrage of abusive texts that average around 50 sexually insulting tweets […]
A Facebook flaw that would have been a golden opportunity for cyberattackers who in the planning to abuse Facebook accounts for spam and identity theft, have been successfully fixed by a UK based researcher who also grabbed the bounty of $20,000 which was set as bounty for the potentially harmful Facebook flaws fixation project. The […]
Apple rolled out an update just two days ago and there is already another method to bypass the iPhone passcode lock. Youtube user videosdebarraquito posted a video described as “Sorry, iOS 6.1.3 has a new security flaw, but can be avoided easily. You should disable the “Voice Dial” option if you want to be safe.” […]