Yahoo steps against Hackers

Yahoo steps in to try and stop foreign Hackers

Yahoo steps in to warn its users against foreign hackers; Yahoo has become another big tech company which has decided to warn its users if their account is or has been a target of foreign hacker. Google started giving out such warnings in 2012 followed by Facebook and Twitter.
Yahoo said in its statement that it will send users notifications if, “We strongly suspect that you may have been a target of an attack, and want to encourage you to take steps to secure your online presence.”

Hackers from countries such as China and Russia can not crack corporate or government agency networks often go for employees’ or relatives’ personal accounts which they can use to send email with malware to the real target. Several studies have shown a very bright chance that same password is being used by most of the people across all social and work networks and log on to work network from home are easy targets for the hackers.
The incidents like Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Office of Personnel Management are part of such attacks by the hackers from North Korea and China.

 

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Tom Kellermann, chief cyber security officer at the Tokyo-based security company Trend Micro said that the hackers are not looking for the Christmas photos from the accounts but are targeting people to fulfill specific objectives such as gaining access to Government or Corporate network.
Kellerman said,” If you are a Fortune 1,000 corporate official, C-level, or a senior executive in the U.S. government, or you are within one degree of separation from them — as in, you are a spouse of them, a child of them or a deputy of them — you will and have been targeted already.”
Al Pascual, director of fraud and security at Javelin Strategy & Research said that,” Consumers in general are not at risk.
You have to be in a specific role for something like this to be likely to occur to you.”
According to him, the industries which are vulnerable to such attacks include financial services, critical infrastructure, defense and politics.
If you get such notification from any social network or email service provider, the first thing to do is to notify your employer.

This denial of the risks, leaves everyone vulnerable to hackers attack, and yahoo will remain to be an amazing target for hackers all across the world, untill yahoo steps up their game and admits to some security flaws

 



 

 

If you wish to protect yourself, from keyloggers, spyware, virus and other malicious software that may steal your private information you can try to get this app:Protect Yourself with Norton Security

 

Another good choice (less expensive)would be this one: Detect Threats with PCKeeper AntiVirus

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk Feb 2016

Linus Torvalds is the person behind Linux.

I will spare you the long bio details, if you are looking for that I suggest you to read his Wikipedia page Here



 

Linus Torvalds Ted Talk review and opinion

In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Linus Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. "I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer," proclaims Torvalds. "I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."

This are two quotes from this great Ted talk. The video as 21.30 minutes so it is not a boring long interview at all. Everyone can and should take a look at it.

Linus Torvalds is no entertainer, he his a programmer. But the interview gives us access to the "Human" side of Torvalds and as great entertainment value, even if you are not into technology and Linux.

The interview takes us behind the story of how linux was created, and explain how and why Linus Torvalds as chosen to make Linux open source, instead of going the easier commercial route.

The big controversy point on the interview is when Linus Torvalds chooses Edison over Tesla

Personally I would take Tesla over Edison any day :) But Torvalds point was that Edison actually got the job done, while Tesla would have great ideas but no final product.

You can watch the video below, or just see it on the official TED webpage LINK

 

 

Netflix Verizon and AT&T speed scandal

Today Iam going to tell you about the latest Netflix Verizon and AT&T scandal.

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Netflix as been “capping” the download speed from American users who use Verizon and AT&T mobile service.
The users from those services, would only be able to use 600 kilobites of bandwith to watch their TV shows and movies. Netflix justified this measure as a way to prevent users to be charged extra from excessive Downloads.

Personally I believe it was a good call from the company, but anyway they should give the option to the customers if they wanted the cap or not.

But Netflix chose not to reveal this information, eventually it got out last Thursday during a story that came out in the Wall Street Journal. And now, they got a lot of angry customers to please!

Some quotes from the source article:

surveillance law under pressure US

Surveillance law getting under pressure

 

Politicians are trying to put some pressure over the NSA surveillance law on the US.
With all the domestic spying going on; the NSA has lots of dirt on them. This is probably the reason why they got so concerned about the issue.

How many persons are really squeaky clean? Would a “clean politician” get any support from dirtier ones? How much money would they get from corporations and other sponsors?

The reason behind this is not vital, as long as it is effective and they could actually put a stop on the NSA domestic surveillance. Below I leave you the article with the link top the correct sources.

Erik Prince, Under Investigation by DoJ

Today I bring you another news, this time the new is about Mr. Erik Prince, the security contractor and founder from Blackwater USA, a company that as been “renamed” several times (former, Xe Services and Academi). Mr Erik Prince fell under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Erik Prince, founder of the now-defunct mercenary firm Blackwater and current chairman of Frontier Services Group, is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies for attempting to broker military services to foreign governments and possible money laundering, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the case.

What began as an investigation into Prince's attempts to sell defense services in Libya and other countries in Africa has widened to a probe of allegations that Prince received assistance from Chinese intelligence to set up an account for his Libya operations through the central bank of China. The Justice Department, which declined to comment for this article, is also seeking to uncover the precise nature of Prince's relationship with Chinese intelligence.

[...] For more than a year, U.S. intelligence has been monitoring Prince's communications and movements, according to a former senior U.S. intelligence officer and a second former intelligence official briefed on the investigation. Multiple sources, including two people with business ties to Prince, told The Intercept that current government and intelligence personnel informed them of this surveillance. Those with business ties were cautioned to sever their dealings with Prince.

[...] "He's a rogue chairman," said one of Prince's close associates, who has monitored his attempts to sell mercenary forces in Africa. That source, who has extensive knowledge of Prince's activities and travel schedule, said that Prince was operating a "secret skunkworks program" while parading around war and crisis zones as FSG's founder and chairman. "Erik wants to be a real, no-shit mercenary," said the source. "He's off the rails exposing many U.S. citizens to criminal liabilities. Erik hides in the shadows ... and uses [FSG] for legitimacy."

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Stay tuned I will upload something new very soon, thanks.

Three Syrian Electronic Army Suspects Got Charged by the US

After the attack to independent.co.uk the US Justice managed to find the Hackers responsible for these attacks and charged them for multiple offences. The only small problem is that they live in Syria, so a little bit away from US justice so for the time being they are quite safe.



First seen in 2011, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) claims to support the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. They've been linked to hacking the Websites of the US Marine Corps, Microsoft, Skype, eBay and PayPal. Arrest warrants have been issued for the suspects:

Facebook Zuckerberg Meets With China's Propaganda Chief

Zuckerberg Meets With China once again to expand is business, but this time he was mocked by social media that he loves so much.

Facebook's Zuckerberg Meets With China's Propaganda Chief, Social Media Mocks Facebook Block

Facebook was blocked in mainland China in 2009 following conflict between Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang. Now Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on a "charm offensive" [qz.com] likely intended to convince the government to bring the site back through the firewall... in a heavily censored form. Meanwhile, Chinese social media users have been amused and confused by Zuckerberg's journey [bbc.com], which has been featured in state media rather than censored:

Andy Grove A Former Intel CEO Has Died

Andy Grove has died. The  longtime Intel's CEO and President

He was 79 years old, and was Intel's first hire. Originally from Hungary, he was born during the pre-war, a survivor of both the  Nazi occupation and the Communist rule; he managed to immigrate to America at the young age age of 20.