Google’s self-driving cars have been given the green light to test these cars on public roads in Mountain View, California this summer. Project Director Chris Urmson wrote in a company blog post that the prototype vehicles will include a safety driver and will be capped to a maximum speed of 25mph. “We’re looking forward to learning…
DuckDuckGo is the most popular search engine for people who care about their privacy. In their privacy page, it is written that DuckDuckGo does not log any personal details. Its homepage is simple and as clean as Google. DuckDuckGo will show same results for search terms to all its users unlike Google, which filters results according to…
A number of Seagate wireless hard drives have a hidden root account which make them vulnerable to hackers and an attacker could gain remote access to the device. The flaw was discovered by researchers at security firm Tangible Security and are said to be present as early as October 2014, affecting firmware versions 2.2.0.005 and 2.3.0.014.. Seagate…
FireEye, a US-based network security company that provides protection against cyber threats now needs protection for their own appliance. Security researcher Kristian Erik Hermansen has discovered a zero-day in FireEye appliance. The vulnerability is in PHP based platform that allows an attacker to access files of a web server. The most interesting thing which Erik noted…
VA Shiva Ayyadurai, a computer scientist of Indian origin, who is the inventor of email is celebrating the 33rd anniversary of his greatest invention. Shiva created an electronic version of interoffice mail system at the age of 14 years in 1978, which he called “Email” and copyrighted it in 1982. Today is the 33rd anniversary…
An attacker had compromised Mozilla’s bug tracker and testing tool Bugzilla, and used the stolen security-sensitive information to attack Firefox users, Mozilla warned in a blog post. In an FAQ published along with the blog post, Mozilla added that a privileged user account was compromised by the hacker. The user reused the password on another website, which…
Windows 10 is already running on more than 75 million devices, since the launch of Windows 10, many users are complaining about its tracking and spying features. For many users, it is not a big issue but for users who want privacy is migrating to Linux distributions like Ubuntu or they are taking advantage of the software. This…
According to sources, once again Blackberry has been targeted for acquisition and this time Handset makers like Microsoft, Xiaomi and Huawei are in the race to buy the Smartphone maker. Digitimes told that Microsoft has commissioned investment companies to evaluate the possibility of taking over BlackBerry, aiming to enhance its competitiveness in the business mobile…
Ashley Madison, a social networking website for adults has been hacked by a group who identified themselves as The Impact Team, who are now posting user’s personal details, according to Krebs on Security. The site claims that it has more than 37 million users and the company is working to take down leaked data which includes users…