You might know already about the Carrier IQ drama that happened recently. For those of you who don’t know Carrier IQ is software that comes pre-installed on many mobile handsets without the users knowing about its presence. This software is said to be used for measuring the customer experience and typical mobile usage patterns etc. However, it has been found recently that Carrier IQ can breach user privacy by logging the messages and user keystrokes and sending this sensitive data among other pieces ...

According to a latest study conducted by Wakefield Research, up to 32% of Americans, almost every one in third, has tried to steal a WiFi network. This study was conducted in association with the WiFi Alliance, and the results indicate an increase of 18% from two years ago. In this world of increasing internet use, where Smartphones use is on the rise, this high rate of internet theft is actually were alarming. It can be argued if this is technically a “theft” or not, but certainly people with ...

According to a paper published by German researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute Secure Information Technology, it is possible to hack an iPhone and steal all kinds of stored passwords from it within six minutes. This only requires two things: Physical access to the phone and a computer to jailbreak the phone. And the most interesting thing is that even setting a passcode on your device cannot stop that. The researchers used the following exploit steal the stored passwords: a. They connected the ...

Dropbox is one of the most dominant cloud storage services available these days. We have already done a detailed comparison of the service with the SugarSync – another popular service that offers 5GB of data storage. Dropbox is extremely convenient if you intent to synchronize your data among two or more machines. Basically in most cases it completely eliminates the need for a thumb drive. However, if you use the Dropbox to store/backup or sync your sensitive data such as passwords, bank account ...

Facebook has already taken the world by storm and has now become the most popular website on the Internet for the social interaction. This popularity also brings some problems since there is a massive amount of user data that is stored on their servers and it becomes a security risk in the scenarios where their servers security is compromised, and then all this massive sensitive personal users data on their servers might be leaked in the wild. An exploit for the Facebook has been posted on Reddit ...

Amazingly, it is only a few days back that I had written about Protect Exe, a utility that allowed to encrypt executable files and today I have found another one which is much far better in terms of features, flexibility, convenience and reliability. The main limitation of that utility was that it only allowed to encrypt executable files but not everyone is interested in just encrypting exe files, as some also want to encrypt pictures, movie clip, documents and other type of files. File encryption ...

Security is of utmost importance for many computer users due to a number of reasons, and it becomes even more important to protect sensitive data when your computer is not physically very secure or you have some other users that are using the same machine. If we rule out the discussion related to the physical security then still there are a lot of ways to secure your valuable data on the computer. This is a very large topic and an expert in this domain can easily fill out entire books to cover it ...

Ok! first of all let me explain that what TrueCrypt is all about for all the people that don’t know about this fantastic piece of software. TrueCrypt is a security and privacy software that enforces your data privacy using on-the-fly transparent disk encryption(OTFE). What OTFE means is that, it supports the creation of virtual containers that stores all the files/data that you want to secure and are encrypted with strong encryption algorithms. Data stored in the containers can easily be accessed ...

Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is an extremely high quality system application that will allow to perform partitioning, backup, file system format conversion, repairing and many more operations on your hard disk. In many ways you can compare it to the excellent Partition Magic 8 that has almost become an industry benchmark for any other software that involves partitioning and other operations of this kind on your hard disk. However Partition Magic has not been updated for a long time and remember it ...