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One among the hackers who were convicted in U.S, for the theft of 160 million credit card numbers pleaded for not being guilty. Dmitriy Smilianets, who is 29 is charged with many cases like wire fraud, unauthorized access to computers. If he gets convicted, he may receive 65 years of imprisonment. He sought plea in the Federal court for the …
The CVG has reported that there were about 4 million hacking attempts from June 13th to July 7th on the Konami website. It claims that as much as about 35,252 illegal log-ins happened in the past month on their website, which includes the names, phone numbers, email ids and home addresses of the customers. However, neither any information is stolen or modified, …
Alongside international terrorism, Cyber-attacks are one of the top four threats to UK national security. The British government assigned the protection of computer networks as one of the country’s most important national security priorities, back in 2010. Defense companies, in UK, face cyber-threats almost daily, mostly from nations wanting to steal sensitive information about new technology and weapons. The UK government has …
Bluebox Security has revealed a loophole in Android’s security model, which can potentially affect up to 99 percent of Android devices in existence. The vulnerability is claimed to have existed since Android 1.6 (Donut), which allows malicious app developers access to modify the code of a legitimate APK, all this without having to break its certified cryptographic signature, which could …
If you stage a protest on Facebook in Saudi Arabia, you are likely to end up in Jail. The Saudi Arabian government sentenced seven men to prison with charges of staging protests and encouraging illegal gathering by means of social network Facebook, according to Human Rights Watch. With sentences ranging from five to ten years. “Sending people off to years …
