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The Essentials of IT Security - Free Kit Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. Click here to download [Sponsored] Latest News Aug 25, 2014 Sony PlayStation Network Taken Down By DDoS Attack It's been a bad weekend for Sony Playstation. The entire PlayStation Network was down much of the day after a dedicated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by online attackers, which left the network inaccessible to users. It's possible that EVE Online and Guild Wars 2 have also been hit by the attackers. Developers on the EVE Online forums have announced DDoS issues, and many ... Read more... Hacking Gmail App with 92 Percent Success Rate A group of security researchers has successfully discovered a method to hack into six out of seven popular Smartphone apps, including Gmail across all the three platforms - Android, Windows, and iOS operating systems - with shockingly high success rate of up to 92 percent. Computer scientists the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and the University of ... Read more... Facebook Awards $50,000 Under Its New 'Internet Defense Prize' Program Along with a dream to make Internet access available to everyone across the world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is working to make the Internet a more secure place as well. Till now, a number of large technology companies have bug bounty programs to reward researchers and cyber enthusiast who contribute in the security of Internet by finding out security holes in software or web ... Read more... Remote Attack Could Format Your Pebble Smartwatch Easily Pebble, a wristwatch that can connect to your phone - both iOS and Android - and interact with apps, has a hard-coded vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to destroy your Smartwatch completely. Pebble Smartwatch, developed and released by Pebble Technology Corporation in 2013, is considered as one of the most popular SmartWatches that had become the most funded project in the ... Read more... Samsung To Pay $2.3 Million Fine for Deceiving the U.S. Government The United States division of Samsung has been charged with deceiving the US government into believing that several of its products met the necessary US government policies, resulting in the US government buying unauthorised Chinese-made electronics. The South Korean electronics giant has agreed to pay the Government $2.3 million in fines to settle the charges of violating trade agreements ... Read more... The Essentials of IT Security - Free Kit Download this kit to learn everything you need to know about IT Security. Click here to download [Sponsored] This email was sent to gdjdfjhfhfn.thanhnien@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. If you would like to manage your newsletter preferences, please click here. The Hacker News | Global Contact: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe About Me Unknown Xem hồ sơ hoàn chỉnh của tôi Được tạo bởi Blogger.