Profiling 10 types of hackers
Credit to Author: Ryan Francis| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0700
Quick Heal supports the Windows 10 Creators Update
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 09:24:32 +0000
A couple of years ago, Microsoft launched Windows 10 and it created quite a spur among PC users all around the world. Celebrating the anniversary of this launch, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in August last year. In 2017, Microsoft is ready with the Windows 10 Creators Update….
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Read More6 Security Tips for Using Public Wi-Fi
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:05:27 +0000
Public Wi-Fi works as an essential tool for people who are constantly on the move and need to get things done. But, while having easy access to public Wi-Fi networks is convenient, it can put your data at risk of being snooped by attackers, simply because such networks are often…
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Read MoreSecurity News This Week: Nasty Microsoft Word ‘Booby Trap’ Loaded PCs With Malware
Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:00:48 +0000
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Nasty Microsoft Word ‘Booby Trap’ Loaded PCs With Malware appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreTaser’s Free Body Cameras Are Good for Cops, Not the People
Credit to Author: Jake Laperruque| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:00:34 +0000
Opinion: Free body cameras may help police, but they come at a cost to civil liberties. The post Taser’s Free Body Cameras Are Good for Cops, Not the People appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreNorth Korea Probably Can’t Strike the US Yet—But It’s Still Plenty Scary
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:20:49 +0000
With tensions mounting in the Korean Peninsula, a look at how much—or how little—damage the Hermit Kingdom could cause stateside. The post North Korea Probably Can’t Strike the US Yet—But It’s Still Plenty Scary appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreAn introduction to six types of VPN software
Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:44:00 -0700
A VPN is simply an encrypted connection between two computers, each side running VPN software. The two sides, however, are not equal.
The software that you, as the user of a VPN service deal with, is known as the VPN client. The software run by a VPN company is a VPN server. The encrypted connection always starts with a VPN client making a request to a VPN server.
There are many different flavors of VPN connections, each with its own corresponding client and server software. The most popular flavors are probably L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, IKEv2 and PPTP.
Some VPN providers support only one flavor, others are much more flexible. Astrill, for example, supports OpenWeb, OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP, Cisco IPSec, IKEv2, SSTP, StealthVPN and RouterPro VPN. At the other extreme, OVPN, as their name implies, only supports OpenVPN.
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Honesty is not the best privacy policy
Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0700
Digital privacy invasion is more than a theoretical or actual threat to our freedoms. It’s also a huge distraction.
Take MIT genius Steven Smith. He’s recently taken time away from his specialties of radar, sonar, and signal processing at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory to automate the pollution of his family’s web traffic with thousands of arbitrary searches and sites.
His code essentially lies about internet activity to whomever is listening.
The software is an artful liar. According to a piece in The Atlantic, Smith’s algorithm uses web activity-spoofing software called PhantomJS to conduct searches in a way and on a timeline that mimics normal human online behavior.
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