You might never have thought about the need for anti-virus jeans before but apparently you need them. The good news is that you will be able to actually buy them soon. The internet clothing firm Betabrand has teamed up with the anti-virus company Norton to make trousers that are hard for hackers to get past. The reason for this type of jeans to even exist is to stop thieves...
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Anyone who would love a new tablet but is a bit concerned about their privacy will be delighted to see that an anti-snooping tablet is in the pipeline. This device is being worked on by the same company, Silent Circle, that brought out the similarly privacy oriented Blackphone. Jon Callas is a co-founder of the firm and he said that they are going to be releasing a tablet...
Worrying news has revealed that hundreds of thousands of home routers have been take over by hackers. The total number of routers over the planet which are said to have been attacked runs to over 300,000. This issue has come about become of a loophole in their core software which the hackers have taken advantage of. The huge network of hacker routers was discovered by...
The Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg is one of the most excitingly named events in the world of technology. At this year’s hacking themed event, it was revealed that thieves had turned to some unusual and hi-tech methods of stealing money from ATMs. An unnamed European bank had cash taken from it by cyber thieves using USB sticks. First of all, they cut holes in the...
Is there anything more annoying in the modern world than the string of passwords we need to remember to check our mail, look at our bank accounts or do pretty much anything else online? Sure, global warming, overpopulation, the financial crisis and the proliferation of nuclear weapons are all pretty worrying. However, none of that seems so important when we are faced with...
Usage of the Bitcoin virtual currency on Android phones has run into a bit of trouble. A reported fault in the Android operating system has left users of the application open to the risk of having cash stolen from them. The news came out from the Bitcoin Foundation and the problem affects some of the users who use the wallet style apps such as BitcoinSpinner, Mycelium...
If you ever see a friend or relative put a phone in their freezer you might think that it is evidence that they have finally cracked up. However, there could be a more sinister reason for their phone freezing attempts. They could be trying to discover, gasp, what secrets are locked away inside it. Strange as it may sound, some German security researchers have been freezing...
Users who receive an email from the Apple Store that seems to be a billing statement may have to think twice before they reply because chances are it is a new form of phishing scam. According to security firm Sophos, the latest phishing attack appears to fool computer users with Apple accounts to give attackers their account information. “With more and more people...
Last week, social networking site Facebook has announced that around 600,000 accounts get hacked in one day. The company then decided to add the “Trusted Friends” feature, a new security feature that will help prevent attacks that allows users to choose 3 to 5 friends that they can trust. Now, a hacker group warned that this may actually backfire. The Hackers...
A computer virus has infected the United States Air Force’s Reaper and Predator drones, logging every keystroke of the pilots as they remotely fly missions over warzones, including Afghanistan. The virus was first detected around two weeks ago by the U.S. Military’s Host-Based Security System. Even though it has been detected, it did not cause massive panic...