Your Personal information is Out There: The Largest Government Hack Ever!
July 21st, 2015
For years, tech companies like Google and Softcard (formerly known as ISIS) begged with consumers to adopt its NFC-powered payment platform, and for the most part, their pleas went largely unheard. Now that Apple Pay has graced millions of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users with NFC purchasing powers, things are beginning to change…. Continue Reading »
Compassionate toddler gets adorably emotional while watching cartoon about lost baby penguin. When I noticed my young daughter getting emotionally absorbed in the cartoon she was watching, I set up a camera to record her. And the results are just adorable. [via youtube] Register for an account it’s free to participate in the discussion or share… Continue Reading »
Diem Brown, a star of an MTV reality series who, at 23, announced in her first appearance on the show that she had ovarian cancer, died on Friday in a New York hospital. She was 32. Ms. Brown began competing on MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” in 2006. On the show, now known as “The… Continue Reading »
Anyone living in a house with more people than TVs has run into the problem at least once (or if you grew up in my family, pretty much every night): People want to watch different shows at the same time. A startup called ScreenzTV is trying to fix family fighting by offering a box that… Continue Reading »
In the wake of the latest leak involving 5 million Gmail addresses and (some) passwords, the advice was the same one we give in every situation like this: Change your password — especially if you re-use it on multiple services and websites. But if you’re checking to see if your email address and password is… Continue Reading »
Here’s the thing about breaking into a multi-billion-dollar company and stealing the credit card information of millions of customers: It’s just not that hard. Eight months after a security breach brought scorn on Target and resulted in the resignation of its CEO, Home Depot is now the victim of a nearly identical attack. “They didn’t… Continue Reading »
Remember how Target was struck by malware that caused it to give up details of 40 million credit and debit cards? Well, turns out that Home Depot’s recent security lapse was a result of the exact same hack. Krebs on Security reports that last week’s Home Depot. hack was “aided in part by a new… Continue Reading »
Following last week’s celeb-photo-hacking-scandal, Apple has started sending email notifications that warn people that their iCloud accounts have been accessed from web. This is the first step to what we’ve been told will be a more secure iCloud future. Now when you login to your account from a web browser—or when somebody else does—you’ll get… Continue Reading »
Much has been said about the upcoming iPhone 6 from Apple, especially when you take into consideration that it ought to be introduced to the masses some time later this month. Well, someone has already sent out some photos of the upcoming iPhone 6, where it shows off the hotly anticipated iPhone 6 (or at… Continue Reading »
Apple is investigating several iCloud account violations that may have resulted in hackers spreading leaked photos of naked female celebrities online. “We take user privacy very seriously and are actively investigating this report,” an Apple spokesperson told Recode. Apple has not commented on how exactly hackers got their pathetic, pervy hands on the private photos… Continue Reading »