Security breaches are an unfortunate part of living a digital lifestyle. We depend on our online accounts for almost everything, and when the security of our online accounts gets breached, “almost everything” we care about gets placed at-risk. On that note, Twitter’s databases were recently hacked, revealing the passwords of 250,000 users. That’s a quarter of a million, which is still a

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A few weeks ago, we told you about a spam attack that was targeting Dropbox email addresses. Dropbox has never had security problems, and the attack was considered an unfortunate stain on an otherwise perfect company record. However, it was revealed today that the Dropbox data leak was not anywhere near as serious as originally thought. Although it first appeared that hackers were able to gain

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The field of ‘ethical hacking’ has been around for a while. The basic idea is that instead of using their hacking talents for evil, hackers could earn a legitimate income defending organizations from hacking attacks. Unfortunately in this world, talented people often go wherever the money is. And even the highest paying ethical hacking jobs pale in comparison to what one could make on the b

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Certain sections of the Nvidia forums were shut down today after a serious password leak exposed user data. Specifically, the ‘General’ and ‘Developer’ sections of Nvidia’s forums were closed after “unauthorized third parties” were able to gain access to sensitive user data. What did these so-called “unauthorized third parties” manage to steal? According to Nvidia, the hackers

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On one Tuesday out of every month, Microsoft releases a range of security updates for its Windows operating system. Generally, these updates are minor fixes that repair small security holes in Internet Explorer or Microsoft Excel. But July’s ‘Patch Tuesday’ is going to be different: this coming Tuesday, Microsoft will release a whopping nine new security patches to Windows users, includin

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It’s normal to be angry about the footage seen on Google Maps. Maybe the Google Car took a picture of your street when you were coming out the front door in a housecoat. Or, maybe your car was spotted at some place it shouldn’t have been, and now you’re single. However, it’s rare for an entire country to get mad at Google Maps, but that is exactly what has happened with Iran. Today,

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