The latest sustained internet attack to reach the news has affected sites which run on the WordPress platform. This hugely popular platform runs around 17% of all of the websites in the world, with its 64 million sites being read by approximately 371 million people every month. Just over a week ago WordPress increased its security measures by adding the option of a two...
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Famous jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, is now working for Facebook. At 21 years old, Hotz is said to be possibly working on a secret iPad Facebook app. The news of GeoHotz’s new job started when Jonah Hill, a member of the Apple jailbreak team Chronic-Dev, said that Hotz backed out of a hacking challenge between the two. Hotz confirmed the rumors on...
This year has seen the rise of hackers in the public eye, groups such as Anonymous and Lulz Security (Lulzsec) have breached the security of some of the biggest brands on the planet. Yesterday, Lulzsec announced their retirement from hacking, but encouraged their fans and other groups to continue their work. We have created an info graphic, entitled ‘Hack Attack’ to...
User data and privacy is once again in the headlines, today it’s Googles Android operating system under the spotlight after their various apps on the Android Marketthieve potential access to sensitive user information. Disturbingly 99% of Android owners could have been affected by accessing the internet over an insecure network, the flaw was worked into various apps...