Mahesh Balan

January 15, 2015February 6, 2015

Peerio — End-to-End Encrypted Secure Messenger and File Sharing App

On one end, where governments of countries like Russia is criticizing end-to-end encryption and considering to ban the encrypted communication apps like Snapchat, CryptoCat, WhatsApp and Apple’s iMessage. On the other hand, the Internet community has come up with a new and rather more secure encrypted communication app.

Dubbed Peerio, an "encrypted productivity suite" designed to offer much more usable alternative to PGP email and file encryption, so that every individual user and business can encrypt everything from Instant Messages to online file storage.

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January 13, 2015February 6, 2015

List all recently run programs on a Windows PC

Do you know which programs ran in the past on your Windows PC? It is likely that you know at least some of them, the programs that you have started manually for example. Depending on how the computer is used, it may be just a tiny fraction of executable files that are run on the system.

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January 13, 2015February 6, 2015

Quickly Check Any Document For Grammar, Plagiarism And More

PaperRater is a web site that offers a free document scanning service. Just paste the chosen text into the page and hit the Get Report button (remembering to enable the optional "originality detection" feature first), and you’ll get the details in just a few seconds. In addition to the report about the reading level of the document, and the standard of grammar, you’ll also receive details of whether the document is mostly original or whether large sections appear to have been copied from other web sites.

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January 13, 2015February 6, 2015

President Obama Proposes National Breach Notification Standard

President Obama announced plans to propose a national data breach notification standard, a consumer privacy bill of rights, and privacy protection for students using electronic learning materials.

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January 13, 2015February 6, 2015

Central Command’s Twitter Account Hacked…As Obama Speaks on Cybersecurity

Twitter and YouTube accounts belonging to the military’s US Central Command were hacked in Jan 2015. Hackers supportive of the terrorist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, took credit and issued a warning to the U.S. military. “AMERICAN SOLDIERS, WE ARE COMING, WATCH YOUR BACK. ISIS,” the hackers tweeted through the account for the U.S. Central Command, which is the military command for the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

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January 13, 2015February 6, 2015

Crooks launch new, ‘black box’ ATM hack

A ‘novel and complex’ new physical attack involves a mobile phone and a circuit board plugged into the ATM’s core.

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January 13, 2015February 6, 2015

Do We Need Regular IT Security Fire Drills?

This article argues that organizations need to move beyond focusing purely on the prevention of security incidents, and start to concentrate on what they will do when an incident occurs. IT security "fire drills," supported by executive management should be conducted regularly in organizations, in order to understand the appropriate course of action in advance of a security breach. This includes recovering evidence, identifying and resolving the root cause of the incident (not just the symptoms), and undertaking a forensic investigation.

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January 12, 2015February 6, 2015

Google Safety Tips Offers a Primer in Online Security

Google has offered tips for how to use its service for a while. A newly-added section now provides online security tips. This is useful if you want to check out your own account, or teach someone else the basics.

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January 12, 2015February 6, 2015

Find In-Depth Articles on Google with a URL Trick

If your Google search just isn’t returning the quality content you want, this little URL trick might find more in-depth articles on the subject you’re searching for.

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January 12, 2015February 6, 2015

Hacker demands money from Swiss bank BCGE

A hacker claiming to be behind a cyber attack on Banque Cantonale de Geneve, or BCGE, used social media on Friday to threaten to leak confidential data on the Swiss bank’s clients if its demands for payment weren’t met. Judicial authorities said a Geneva prosecutor was handling a formal complaint lodged by the cantonal bank on Jan. 6, but gave no details.

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