Thursday, February 27, 2014

The U.K.'s Extensive Photo Album Brought To Light

There has been another startling revelation against U.K.'s surveillance agency GCHQ. in corroboration with the United States N.S.A., GCHQ has gathered millions of images from Yahoo's video chat services.

Apple Users: Time To Upgrade

Apple has recently discovered and shared with the public that there is a critical bug in both its IOS and OS systems. The flaw makes their users susceptible to attackers which could intercept sensitive info sent on public WIFI networks.

Saturday, February 22, 2014

Too Big For Our Data Britches

On February 20, 2014 The University of Maryland announced it was "victim of a sophisticated computer security attack." Over 300,000 faculty, staff, and students who were issued an ID at their college had there personal information stolen. Information included names and social security numbers, dating all the way back to 1998. The university is offering a year of credit monitoring as compensation but for many it is already too late.

The Growing Problem of Cybercrime

Everyday, more and more tales and news stories about cybercrime and its' victims surface. As companies take more and more initiative to secure their servers and their clients it seems clear that enough still hasn't been done.

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Internet Fights Back Against Mass-Surveillance

February 11, 2014 was suppose to go down in history as a victory for internet freedom... but was it?

Websites such as Reddit, Mozilla, and Tumblr, among 6,000 others, participated in an online protest event known as "The Day We Fight Back".

Comcast Poised to Buy Time Warner

Today Comcast confirmed they will be buying Time Warner. The buyout is valued to cost around $45 billion and will merge the nation's number one and two cable system providers together.