National Cyber Security

A rather serious security flaw in the iPhone’s SMS messaging system has been discovered and revealed by well-known security researcher and jailbreak extraordinaire ‘pod2g’. Security flaw affecting all iPhones that he says could facilitate hackers or thieves to access your personal information. The researcher claims that the flaw has actually been present in Apple’s iPhone [...]

If, for whatever reason, you need to cover your tracks while you are browsing the web on your desktop, you have plenty of options to keep anonymous. Thanks to Orbot, Android users, too, have the option to use the Tor network to anonymize their web browsing sessions and avoid being monitored. Now, thanks to Onion [...]

Comments Email This Article Print This Article Order a Reprint I love a good deal. In fact, there are plenty of things I won’t buy unless they’re on sale. However, Len Penzo at Len Penzo dot Com makes a good point about paying more for certain things — yes, paying more. He writes in Contrarian [...]

By Donna Rapado Airlines Pulls Ad Spoofing Secret Service Colombian Prostitution Scandal April 21, 2012 Updated Apr 21, 2012 at 12:47 PM PDT Miramar-based Spirit Airlines issued an apology and pulled a racy ad spoofing the Secret Service Colombian prostitution scandal that many people found offensive. The Secret Service said Friday that three of its [...]

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Dear Action Line: Aren’t automated calls from telemarketers illegal? Even though I am registered on both state and federal Do Not Call lists, I still get these calls. What can be done to stop them? – E.W., Tulsa. The federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act requires all prerecorded voice messages – robocalls – to identify the [...]

Photo: AFP Police have become involved in an investigation into how dozens of Telstra customers with numbers starting with 4963 were wrongly billed for calls to an internet gaming site. Telstra’s billing and security divisions have been investigating how several hundred calls to 1900 910 080 were made during a two week period last month. [...]

<!– –> Tweet – A A A + Written by Lauren Melvin <!– –>      Greensboro, NC — US Airways is warning customers about e-mails that claim to be from them. The emails are called phishing. US Airways officials said some customers are getting them, but so are people who haven’t even booked flights. Some [...]

A particularly harrowing email, purporting to be from the fascist organisation Combat 18 has been widely circulating the internet this morning. Spoofing the email addresses of many major local authorities, respected UK organisations and public bodies, the email threatens the recipient with violence unless the web site for anti-fascist Searchlight Magazine is removed from the [...]

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