Researchers report security flaw in Samsung's Galaxy S4

Researchers report security flaw in Samsung's Galaxy S4  Here's some Grinchy news for those of you who put Samsung's Galaxy S4 on your holiday wish list: Israeli researchers have identified a vulnerability in the smartphone that allegedly allows a hacker to easily intercept secure data. We did not immediately hear back from Samsung with a response to the reported flaw, but the company has told The Wall Street Journal and other news outlets...

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Wickr 2.0 makes self-destructing SMS -- Care about Privacy

Wickr 2.0 makes self-destructing SMS -- Care about Privacy Wickr 2.0's debut on Friday makes it much easier to invite friends to use the app, thanks to a new address-book scanning feature that prevents Wickr from learning who you're inviting. That's a big difference from just about every other service out there, which accesses your address book -- usually with your permission -- and then holds on to that data like the digital gold that it is. Nico...

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Target data stolen in hack showing up on black market --

Target data stolen in hack showing up on black market As if the Target hack ordeal couldn't get any worse -- data from the retail chain's massive security breach stolen between November 27 and December 15 is popping up in huge quantities on the black market, The New York Times reported Friday.After Target conceded Thursday that its in-store point-of-sale systems were indeed hacked, compromising as many as 40 million debit and credit card accounts,...

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Snowden's Christmas message about Privacy of ordinary person

 Snowden's Christmas message about Privacy of ordinary person Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower, delivered a video message on Christmas Day via UK's Channel 4 with a simple theme: "privacy matters.""A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves -- an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought," Snowden said in the 1-minute, 43-second message. "And that's a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who...

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MacBook Webcams can be used to covertly spy on people -- With proof

MacBook Webcams can be used to covertly spy on people -- With proof Imagine going about your daily life and then one day receiving photos of yourself from inside your home. Sound spooky? Well, this really happened to a woman named Cassidy Wolf, according to the Washington Post. And, to make matters worse, she was nude in the photos. How did this happen? Apparently, there's a way for hackers to spy on people via their iSight Webcams in older Apple...

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Google upgraded its web security certificate to 2048-bit encryption

Google upgraded its web security certificate to 2048-bit encryption Never again are you going to get a Google Web site whose security certificate is protected with comparatively weak 1,024-bit encryption. The Net giant has secured all its certificates with 2,048-bit RSA encryption keys or better, Google security engineer Dan Dulay said in a blog post Monday. Certificates are used to set up encrypted communications between...

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