The man responsible for hacking into over 50 celebrities email accounts, and also responsible for leaking Scarlett Johansson’s nude pictures on the web, has been arrested and admitted guilt.
Archive for the ‘Privacy’ Category
Surviving In A Post LulzSec And Anonymous Online World
September 12th, 2011 
Administrator True, while the group LulzSec may be disbanded and it’s members have either disappeared or been arrested (or arrested even more so), Anonymous is still here and the ideals that Anonymous portrays will probably live on for quite some time. It almost seems like we are back in the early 1990′s – website defacements, denial-of-service attacks and SQL [...]
Posted in Encryption, Featured, Firewall, General, Home Security, Malware, Mobile Devices, PCI, Privacy, Social Networking 
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Is Anonymity Online Truly Possible?
August 9th, 2011 Administrator That’s really the million dollar question. This post aims to answer that question and provides some methods that will get you there.
BitCoin/Mt.Gox Hacked, DARPA’s Firing Range & LulzSec
June 21st, 2011 Administrator BitCoin/Mt.Gox Hacked, DARPA Digital Firing Range & LulzSec – Let’s begin with Bitcoin and MTGox.
Sony Playstation Network Hacked
April 27th, 2011 Administrator I’ve actually been holding off on posting this news since last week, but since Sony has come forth with more details it would seem now is a good time to bring it up. Long story short – The Sony Playstation network has been hacked.
iOS Devices Found Tracking & Logging Your Location Data
April 21st, 2011 Administrator The Guardian reported yesterday that security researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered that iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad (3G enabled) keep an extensive log of you geographic location on the device, and once you sync with iTunes, also on your computer.
Facebook Begins Adding Two-Factor Authentication
April 20th, 2011 Administrator If you remember, a few weeks back I posted about Google offering two-factor authentication for GMail. Well it seems that Facebook now wants to jump on the two-factor train.
Dropbox Security: Was The Ball “Dropped”?
April 11th, 2011 Administrator I’m an avid user myself of the cloud service known as Dropbox. I like being able to store things in the cloud that I can access from pretty much anywhere; regardless of what platform or operating system I’m using at that current moment in time.
Student Records Found In Dumpsters
April 3rd, 2011 Administrator While this isn’t directly related to Information Security it is still very concerning. Records containing names, ages, work numbers and personal history were found in dumpsters behind a strip mall and belonged to the Huntington Learning Center in East Northport, Long Island. So the school was contracting out record disposal to a 3rd party that [...]
Facebook Privacy Settings Are A Complete Mess
May 19th, 2010 Administrator So why should we care about Facebook privacy settings?
Posted in Home Security, Privacy, Social Networking 
Tags: account settings, facebook, privacy settings, security, social network 2 Comments »
Protected: Anatomy Of A Social Networking Hack – Part Two
April 18th, 2010 Administrator There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Using HTTPS (Why should you use it and why should you care)
April 9th, 2010 Administrator Chances are, when you open your web-browser, you do one of three things: 1. You open one of your bookmarked links 2. You use a search engine 3. You manually type an address in (facebook.com)
Posted in Hacking, Home Security, Phishing, Privacy Tags: facebook, gmail, hackers, HTTP, HTTPS, search engine, sniffer 1 Comment »
Protected: Anatomy Of A Social Networking Hack – Part One
April 7th, 2010 Administrator There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
How Hackers Utilize Google
April 3rd, 2010 Administrator Typically for anyone who uses a computer, Google is the most well-known name when it comes to searching for what you want on the Internet. Many people don’t realize that modern-day hackers also heavily rely on the search results that Google provides them.
Posted in Hacking, Privacy, Tools Tags: google, google hacking, google hacking database, hackers, Hacking, johnny long No Comments »
