Day: December 16, 2016

Yahoo Suffers World’s Biggest Hack Affecting 1 Billion Users ub 2013

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history. The digital heist disclosed Wednesday occurred in August 2013, more than a year before a separate hack that Yahoo announced nearly three months Read more about Yahoo Suffers World’s Biggest Hack Affecting 1 Billion Users ub 2013[…]

The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted on by Robin Edgar

Privacy Badger is a browser extension that automatically blocks hidden third-party trackers that would otherwise follow you around the web and spy on your browsing habits. Privacy Badger now has approximately 900,000 daily users and counting. Third-party tracking—that is, when advertisers and websites track your browsing activity across the web without your knowledge, control, or Read more about The New and Improved Privacy Badger 2.0 Is Here | Electronic Frontier Foundation[…]

Orbital ATK air launches Pegasus XL CYGNSS

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Our Pegasus rocket successfully launched NASA’s Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) from our L-1011 Stargazer aircraft this morning at 8:37 a.m. EST, and completed payload deployment at 8:52 a.m. To learn more about the CYGNSS mission, visit NASA’s blog here. About the Mission The three-stage Pegasus XL will be used to deploy eight small Read more about Orbital ATK air launches Pegasus XL CYGNSS[…]

Hacking: macOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval

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macOS FileVault2 let attackers with physical access retrieve the password in clear text by plugging in a $300 Thunderbolt device into a locked or sleeping mac. The password may be used to unlock the mac to access everything on it. To secure your mac just update it with the December 2016 patches.Anyone including, but not Read more about Hacking: macOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval[…]