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10+ Tips To Protect Your Webcam From Being Hacked

Gone are the days people used to believe webcams cannot be hacked and they cannot be compromised. Nope, webcams can not only be hacked on tech-savvy movies but also in real life.

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Speed your browser by changing your DNS

Most people use the default DNS settings provided by their ISP, and while they are usually sufficient for most purposes, there are plenty of free options out there, like OpenDNS and Google DNS....

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How to Find the Sender’s Location in Gmail

When John sends an email message to Elizabeth, the IP address of the sender (John’s computer) is included in the header of the outgoing email message. The receiver (Elizabeth) can then perform a simple...

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7 simple steps for thwarting hactivists

More data was stolen from corporate networks last year by hactivists than by cyber criminals, according to a new report from Verizon.

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Introduction to Port Forwarding

Guide to opening up a port ports on your router to allow P2P and file-sharing programs like BitTorrent to function properly.

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Skype Hack Reveals Users’ IP Addresses

It has been found that a Skype hack using a copy of SkypeKit reveals a user’s external and internal IP addresses.

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Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice, leaks 1.7GB of data

The hacktivist group Anonymous claims to have leaked 1.7GB of data belonging to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS).

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Smartphone hijacking vulnerability affects AT&T, 47 other carriers

Computer scientists have identified a vulnerability in the network of AT&T and at least 47 other cellular carriers that allows attackers to surreptitiously hijack the Internet connections of...

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The Ultimate Disposable Email Provider List 2012

Back in 2007 I re-published a list of 20 temporary email services which proved to be useful to a lot of people. As time passed by, some of the services mentioned in the list stopped working, either...

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Feds Want Warrantless Spying Loss Overturned, Saying the Law Can’t Touch Them

The Obama administration is set to argue to a federal appeals court Friday that the government may breach, with impunity, domestic spying laws adopted in the wake of President Richard M. Nixon’s...

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