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Mega crosses 1 million users within a day of its launch
Talk about doing things the way he wants! Kim DotCom had launched a new file sharing website, Mega, after having his previous venture, Megaupload been shut down by authorities exactly a year ago. And...
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Safer Internet Day 2013 is being celebrated today
The Safer Internet Day (SID) is organized by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially amongst children and young...
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Hackers compromise Clicksor Ad Network to distribute malware
The research team of Trusteer recently investigated malvertising campaigns from several of the leading online advertising networks that distribute Blackhole Exploit kits that utilize this vulnerability...
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5 websites captured 20% of Search Results Clicks
In a study released recently, it was found that just 5 sites captured 20% of all search activity in Q4 2012. The top 500 websites captured nearly 50%, whereas the top 1,000 websites captured nearly 75%...
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New Send To Kindle Button Comes to the Web
Reading documents and web content on Kindle will become easier than ever with the newest icon gifted from Amazon. Yes, Amazon yesterday announced new feature for Kindle owners, the “Send to Kindle...
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Mozilla Persona, an Identity System for the Web, launched
Mozilla today launched an authentication service “Mozilla Persona” to improve the way you sign in to different websites. With Persona, you can sign-in to different websites using a single email...
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Internet, the revolution turned 20 on April 30th!
20 years back, the internet was made available to public and the whole world was introduced to the biggest revolutionary change in the way we communicate. Back then, people were amazed to see this new...
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Google’s Project Loon : Offers Internet via Balloons
After bringing Driver-less cars and Google Glass, team Google [X] is now set to launch the internet beaming antennas into the stratosphere. This project is named as ‘Project Loon’ and is in its...
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Opt Out Of PRISM website launched; recommends alternative software & services
PRISM is a $20 million data collection program, where many US-based Internet companies like Google Facebook, Yahoo, PalTalk and other bigwigs like Apple and Microsoft have leaked their users...
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Pakistan to filter Social and Political content on the Internet
For the purpose of social and political content filtering on the internet, Pakistan is implementing Netsweeper. The citizen Lab internet research group, based at the Munk, at the University of Toronto...
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Avira Browser Safety Makes Your Browsing Safe By Disabling All the Toolbars
Till a few years ago, we browsed in a world where there was no need to worry about bogus adverts and PUP (Potential Unwanted Programs). The main reason of it was that our browsers didn’t had so many...
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HTTP/2, The more efficient and faster web protocol is hitting soon
Yes, the news is official now; the much awaited HTTP/2 is ready and formally approved by The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). The update means that your webpages would now load faster and...
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New FREAK ATTACK exploits SSL/TLS vulnerability
Thanks to researchers who work day and night to disclose new cyber attacks and their remedies to ensure that we are protected. Recently, researchers disclosed a new SSL/TLS vulnerability called The...
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Internet celebrates 30th anniversary of .COM domain names
One cannot imagine a world without domain names. If there were no concept of domain names, we would all have to remember some unintuitive, geeky IP addresses. Thanks to domain names, which made our...
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One in three of top websites vulnerable or hacked, says report
A report from a security company, has bought some striking revelations about the security of the websites that we browse daily. The report says that one in three of the top million websites was either...
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Slack was Hacked; Its Central database exposed
The startup technologies appear to be the new target of hackers. Slack, the text messaging start-up today disclosed that it had been hacked by hackers. The company was hacked for four days in February...
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GitHub was hit with a massive DDoS attack from China
GitHub, the popular web based hosting service for software development, was hit with a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack from China for the past 24 hours. The attack started sometime...
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Encryption Software, biggest worry in tackling Terrorism, says Europol Chief
Europol (European Police Office) director, Rob Wainwrigh, has warned that use of encryption software to send online communications and access to the hidden areas of the Internet (known as the Darknet)...
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On Heartbleed Anniversary, 74% of the Global 2000 companies still vulnerable
Exactly 1 year back, the OpenSSL bug named Heartbleed created havoc in the world of internet. Many remedies and preventive measures were suggested to get rid of this bug. A number of ways to tackle...
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India’s fight for protecting Net Neutrality against telecom giants gets serious
India’s fight for protecting their rights about using the internet; especially when it comes to freedom to choose and privacy, has become large. TRAI or Telecom Authority of India has disclosed its...
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