Archive : Security

Looks like Apple has another problem with security and the safety of their operating system. Apple’s latest update of Lion, Mac OS 10.7.3, has accidentally turned on a system-wide debug log that logs all of the login credentials, including passwords, since the update…

As Apple’s Mac OS X line of computer are getting more demand, so is the demand for virus creators to make viruses and malware for the Mac OS X. Recently a strain of malware has been released to infect Mac OS X….

Remember reCAPTCHA? The service that helps cut down or prevent spammers and, at the same time, helping identifying texts that cannot be identified by a computer (like some books, newspapers, and documents). Now Google is now trying to take reCAPTCHA to a new…

When logging in to Star Wars: The Old Republic, you may have noticed a security key field under your password. While this feature is certainly optional, the added level of security that it provides can mean the difference between your…

As expected, the FBI will possibly cut off Internet access to millions of people on March 8, 2012 to help the country get rid of the DNSChanger Trojan. As a note: this does not affect all Internet users in the…

Like all brute force attacks; when you simplify certain actions, you will have the possibility of open holes where hackers can gain into the system. Wi-Fi’s Protected Security mode (or known as WPS for short) has fallen to that hole. Wi-Fi…

Very early Friday morning, around 1AM, iTunes and iCloud users come to a horrific screen when trying to login to their accounts. It seem that Apple is having a major outage across the United States of users trying to access…

Forget your Facebook password? Your friends can help authenticate you and get you back in your Facebook account. It’s inevitable that you will lose your Facebook password, or at lease forget it for a short time. Facebook is rolling out…

A well-established group of German hackers, the Chaos Computer Club, has accused the German government of releasing a backdoor Trojan into the wild. According to Mikko Hypponen of F-Secure, the announcement was made public on the group’s website in the…

If you were one of the millions of people to download Mac OS X Lion, a major password flaw exposes your Mac to hackers who can easily gain access to your computer and lock you out of your system. According…