Since Microsoft started planning and building Windows 10, they’ve been talking to a lot of users about what users would like to see in Windows to make it a great place for users to build awesome apps, sites and services for all platforms and all devices. Many users told Microsoft that …
Read More »US Govt wants you to hack the Pentagon and get rewarded for it
The Department of Defense(DoD) is inviting hackers to hack Pentagon. The program is named “Hack the Pentagon” which is the Federal Government’s first bug bounty program and will be modeled after those of private companies was announced as a pilot program to pay independent security researchers who disclose bugs in …
Read More »Turkish Citizenship Database dumped
Who would have imagined that backwards ideologies, cronyism and rising religious extremism in Turkey would lead to a crumbling and vulnerable technical infrastructure? This came via a recent post made in Reddit. This list includes data of the country’s president. The database, which comprises 49,611,709 documents, was posted on the …
Read More »Panama Papers data leak exposes Worlds largest global corruption
The Panama Papers are a set of 11.5 million confidential documents created by the Panamanian corporate service provider Mossack Fonseca that provide detailed information on more than 214,000 offshore companies, including the identities of shareholders and directors. The acting heads of state of five countries, namely Argentina, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, …
Read More »Android vulnerability allows attackers root access
In an Android Security Advisory issued on March 18th, Google revealed it was notified of at least one unidentified rooting app available in Google Play and third-party marketplaces using a local elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Linux kernel of Android devices. This Android vulnerability advisory was published just before …
Read More »