Get your [colors of the rainbow] Facebook and its kin back in business, parallel legitimate “Timeline removal” movement just a matter of perspective Ever since the Timeline entered the social media scene, plenty of angry voices clamored for their Old Facebook in high pitched diatribes against the blasphemous Facebook account makeovers. Scammers exploited protesters’ arduous cries and went about their busine...

Smartphone battery life is a sensitive issue when OEM manufacturers start throwing hardware specs at customers, because the number of hours your device is juiced up often depends on personal usage rather than overall benchmark tests. Having a state of the art smartphone doesn’t mean it’ll stay powered up for days. It actually may mean that it comes with a lot more features to drain your battery. From tablet...

Cyber criminals are deliberately targeting small and medium businesses because lower security measures make them easier to breach. While large companies can afford to invest in state of the art security systems, small business are often exposed to hacking attacks because of their inability to invest in such assets. A study conducted in collaboration with law enforcement agencies around the world has reveale...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 26-year old Nichole Michelle Merzi from California, who was convicted of participating in a phishing scheme. As part of an official U.S.-Egyptian operation codenamed Operation Phish Phry, the woman has been identified as a member of a Los Angeles cyber-gang that caused more than $1 million in bank frauds. The six-week trial for Nichole Michelle Merzi’s conviction...

Hacking, spamming, ID theft, privacy, and piracy issues. The year started well for specialized law firms, but not so good for the defendants. In the first quarter of the year, there were several security cases that created waves in the public opinion. HotforSecurity made a list of the hottest most interesting recently filed lawsuits.  1.    Microsoft co-founder victim of ID theft Is it OK to rob from a guy ...

Bitcoins valued at 90,000 dollars were stolen in a security breach at Bitcoin exchange site Bitcoinica, according to a site representative. Hackers compromised one of the team members’ email servers and then hijacked 18,547 Bitcoins from the online wallet. The company has suspended operations to focus on the investigation. In the attack last Friday, the database was most likely compromised. This included in...

Small and midsize businesses using the cloud waste less time and money, a recent Microsoft research shows. According to the study conducted in five U.S. areas, these companies gain significant security benefits, including increased protection against e-threats. The study shows that 35 percent of American companies have experienced higher levels of security since moving to the cloud. In addition, 32 percent ...

Third-party Android markets have traditionally been the main source of infection since the Android boom, as they are less strict than the genuine Play when it comes to bouncing malware. If alternative Android markets have a couple of potentially dangerous applications, today’s catch is an Android market that only serves malware. Dressed up to perfectly imitate the genuine Google Play, this rogue repository ...

“It’s a matter of when we leak the contents of those databases, not if. You know how we got access? We didn’t hack them. The access was given to us by the people who run the systems. The five-star general (and) the Secretary of Defence who sit in the cushy plush offices at the top of the Pentagon don’t run anything anymore”, said Cristopher Doyon, a.k.a Commander X, in an exclusive interview for National Po...

Spammers send almost 300 billion messages a day combined, mostly in English. That’s more than 90 percent of the world’s e-mail traffic. It costs billions of dollars a year in lost productivity, annoys hundreds of millions of people, and seriously harms some of those who fall into the trap. It also means that the vast majority of the world’s e-mail is a babbling, eye-crossing, head-scratching mess of near-ra...