Opera Mini for Android sports a nifty data saving feature that lets you access the internet without worrying about hitting your bundle limit. Unfortunately, this does result in websites being severely compressed, making the experience rather ugly and less user-friendly. The company has now added a new “high” setting to…
Those New Credit Card Chips Known as EMV Won’t Defeat the Data Thieves
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Those tiny new chips embedded in your credit cards promise to make it tougher for thieves to steal your data. But before the technology — known as EMV — is fully adopted and probably for a long time after the transition…
No Notification Given To Millions Of Federal Employees About Security Data Hacking
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans As many as 21.5 million federal employees’ security clearance data has been hacked. The United States government has so far not intimated any of the federal employees whose security clearance data were hacked and the hacking has taken place more than…
New wireless technology uses your body to transmit data
A new wireless communication technique uses human body to transmit magnetic signals San Diego researchers have developed a prototype of their new wireless communication technique that can transmit data through biological tissue outperforming the existing wireless technology. Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego, US have demonstrated a…
China and Russia are using hacked data to target U.S. spies, officials say
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Foreign spy services, especially in China and Russia, are aggressively aggregating and cross-indexing hacked U.S. computer databases — including security clearance applications, airline records and medical insurance forms — to identify U.S. intelligence officers and agents, U.S. officials said. At least…
RAND PAUL PROMISES TO SHUT DOWN NSA DATA CENTER IF HE BECOMES PRESIDENT
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Republican Senator Rand Paul has been one of the few vocal critics of the U.S. government’s spying programs. He’s the only presidential candidate that has made NSA spying a central topic of their campaign. NSA spying is so important to Rand…
Ashley Madison hacking: Founder emails leaked in fresh data dump
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Emails sent by the founder of infidelity website AshleyMadison.com appear to have been exposed in a second, larger release of data stolen from its parent company, cyber security experts confirmed on Thursday. The data dump by hackers who have attacked the…
Here’s every type of data exposed in the Ashley Madison hack
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Share on Facebook Tweet (233) Share (4) Pin There are plenty of ways to look up whether your information has been exposed in the Ashley Madison hack — all you need is an email address. And while that alone certainly speaks volumes,…
Names of 37 million cheating spouses are leaked online: Hackers dump huge data file revealing clients of adultery website Ashley Madison – including bankers, UN and Vatican staff
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Hackers today outed millions of cheating spouses using the Ashley Madison infidelity website by publishing all their personal details and sexual fantasies online. The names, ages, addresses, phone numbers and credit card details of up to 37million users including 1.2million in…
Xiaomi and Opera team up for Data Saver feature on MIUI 7
Xiaomi introduced the international version of its Android UI today, and one of the features on MIUI 7 helps Xiaomi users save data. Developed with Opera Software, the Data Saver is powered by the Opera Max data compression that will work on user’s apps. It also will work with video…