A physically disabled person from Southern California got six years imprisonment for harassing girls and women online. The defendant is said had infiltrated the victims’ computer by using malicious software. He then used the computer to search for racy photos of the victim. Each time he discovers any racy photo he use it to blackmail the victims to send him more nude pictures.
It has been confirmed earlier that Netherland’s SSL certificate authority DigiNotar issued an internet security certificate to unknown attackers on July 10, 2011. But the main matter of fact is that after 2 months from that time this certificate has allowed those attackers to set up a duplicate copy of Google website which looks like Read more
Security researchers found out that a new malware that has the same feature as the Zeus malware is capable of turning an ordinary malware into a worm. Since both Zeus and SpyEye code can now be used by cyber-criminals, the world believes that there will be more hackers, who are going to attempt to steal financial and other data.
It looks as that Google+ is following the path of Facebook as Google+ introduces a new feature on their site. The latter has added a feature that Facebook was using for a longtime now – the “ignore” and “block” options.
Ignore signifies that users is not going to see what the other person shares on his page. The new block option regulates the means a person can network with what a Google+ user is sharing. Both intended to reduce the social media clutter on Google+.
Social networking giant Facebook has once again in the highlight, because of the announcement of a large scale of its overhaul related its own privacy settings. But the main reason behind it is to provide users more control over who has seen the posted item to their profile – in short tracking of profile visitors.