An investigator into one of the world’s biggest cyber heists said that Bangladesh’s central bank was vulnerable to hackers because it used second-hand, $10 switches to network computers connected to the SWIFT global payment network and did not have a firewall. Mohammad Shah Alam, head of the Forensic Training Institute of the Bangladesh police’s criminal…
This has taken political colours with President Barrack Obama almost terming it as protectionism. Margrethe Vestager, the European Union’s commissioner for competition, has begun probing on Google’s perceived anti-competitive behaviour vis-a-vis its Android operating system. Vestager has to prove and establish that Google has been abusing its dominant position by hindering competitors from developing Android…
It is a wee bit funny, but it’s better to play safe than sorry. There is a logical explanation for the site’s behaviour. In a surprising turn of events, a Reddit user discovered, much to his surprise, that Google’s Safe Browsing Site Status checker, had listed Google.com, as a partially dangerous site. Google’s Safe Browsing…
While every new company or a start-up hopes for a lucky break, the day the Panama Papers made headlines around the world, the Swedish company Neo Technology found out it was getting one such break. In order to make sense of 11.5 million documents, including emails, images and spreadsheets, leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack…
The solution is essentially not all that complicated. A stalling approach could hit a nerve. VW’s needs to find the person(s) responsible and turn a new leaf. If you were to believe VW insiders, emission investigators have quite a lot of ground to cover than just navigate privacy laws, since those in the know did…
As of now the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has stalled its efforts since it has interpreted the law to its favour. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, wants to know from an authoritative source whether U.S. officials have ever forced a company to decrypt data so as to aid an investigation. In order…
The only way to protect against this vulnerability is to use apps which use end-to-end encryption such as Signal and WhatsApp. The fact that Signaling System 7, the crucial protocols which encapsulates the process phones follow for making and receiving phone calls, sending and receiving messages as well as sending and receiving data, is flawed…
Creative types will love this Virtual Reality app. The history of computing can be traced through its display milestones: from the low-res Apple IIs, the 14” VGA monitors of the 90s, the 20” monitors of the late 90s to the full HD, 1080p, LED monitors available today. The future of monitors could take an altogether…
Although VR content is currently limited its however offers the world’s first VR headset with a 360 degree sound. When Huawei launched its high-end P9 and P9 Plus smartphones in London last week, it purposely withheld a tiny surprise: the fact that it has made an equivalent to Samsung’s Gear VR, which it launched on…
Computer security researchers Martin Georgiev and Vitaly Shmatikov have found a vulnerability the way shorted URLs are generated. Computer security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in shortened URLs that could expose personal data to hackers who are motivated enough to go after it. As per Martin Georgiev and Vitaly Shmatikov, the two security researchers who…
