United States multistate insurance company Premera Blue Cross hacked, 11.2 million customers data may be at risk

Premera Blue Cross hit by sophisticated hack, 11 million customers may be affected After the massiveAnthem Inc breachwhich affected more than 80 million customers, United States multi-state insurance company has reported that it was hacked in January, 2015 and hackers may have assess to confidential data of approximately 11.2 million customers. Premera Blue Cross stated that it has been the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack, in which its systems and databases were breached....

March 18, 2015 · 2 min · 307 words · Amanda Delgado

We did North Korea; United States says North Korea Web Outage Was Revenge For Sony Hack

The United States has admitted to being responsible for the Internet outage in North Korea. So I cant confirm those reports, but in general, thats what the president has spoken to. McCaul was then asked if the North Korea Internet outage was one of the responses, he said yes. However he did not categorically agree that the United States was the reason for the outage. However it doesnt take much information crunching to add up the two....

March 18, 2015 · 1 min · 79 words · Jennifer Lee

9 Year Old CEO warns of dangers of phone hacking, demonstrates how its done

The Harmony School of Science third-grader has accomplished more in nine years than some adults accomplish in a lifetime. He is also the CEO of Austin, Texas based Prudent Games. He achieved the hack with a malicious download which looked to be a real game. Taking a five minute break in between his address he achieved the task in 15 minutes. His parents say they knew at the tender age of five , his child was special....

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 132 words · Christine Johnson

Kayne West tweets nudes to celebrate Kim Kardarshian’s 30 million Twitter following

The term became a instant trend and Twitter users started using it memes. !pic.twitter.com/rzI2qNxAAG Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick)March 16, 2015 SWISH!!!! !pic.twitter.com/DmF1YBTf0H Brendan Davis (@notbrendan)March 16, 2015 SWISH!! !pic.twitter.com/QcelUjhbA2 Ben Detrick (@bdetrick)March 16, 2015 What is swish? Where did it come from? Urban Dictionarymentions it as the sound a basketball makes when it flies through a hoop without touching the rim. Swishy is also a derogatory term which in UK swish means cook....

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 99 words · Scott Grimes Jr.

Kid makes $4500.00 worth of in-App FIFA game on Xbox, Microsoft refuses to refund

It is the fathers fault, the kids fault or Microsofts fault? Jeremy was surprised to see four consecutive entries of $109 in his credit card statement. A little investigating revealed that his son had been making in-App purchases through his FIFA soccer game on Xbox. Jeremy says, Its been about a month since the incident. The answer to us is now clear? My wife and I accept our responsibility in this....

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 132 words · Gordon Johnson DVM

Microsoft will finally kill off the “Internet Explorer” in its Windows 10

He also informed that Microsofts Project Spartan is currently working on a new brand name for its upcoming explorer. (like note we have used Microsoft Spartan name just as a reference to the new explorer). This was also confirmed by a survey which was done by Microsoft. Capossela also gave some ideas in which Microsoft will be using social media like Twitter to make more money. source: www.techworm.net

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 68 words · Douglas Mason

Nintendo would bring Mario and other Games to smartphones and tablets

Nintendo ties up with Japanese smartphone gaming giant DeNA to make games for smartphones and tablets. Nintendo Entertainment System is a renowned company since 1985 known for its gaming consoles. The news was a big surprise to the entire smartphone and gaming console industry. Nintendo would be creating new games for this partnership. Nintendo is planning to go beyond consoles, which they have never done. They never even did anything on the PC before....

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 104 words · Nicole Lopez

NYPD Officers Who Edited Wikipedia Pages Face minor reprimands and no indictment

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March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 7 words · Ashley Frazier

Sending or receiving money is now easier with Facebook messenger

This service is free, more secured and easy. The Messenger now features a $ sign on the keyboard which takes user directly to the payment page. On iOS devices user can also enable Touch ID. As always, user can always add another layer of authentication to users account at any time. As per Facebook they will be using secure systems to encrypt the connection between the sender and receiver. source: www....

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 71 words · Jeremy Robinson

USB-C connector shipped with New MacBook and Chromebook vulnerable to BadUSB

Turning that plug into an attack vector could have serious security consequences. It was later demonstrated by researchers Adam Caudill and Brandon Wilson who exploited the flaw by reverse-engineering USB firmware. What is BadUSB? The demo showed that similar hacks could work against Android phones when attached to targeted computers. You May Also Like :Killer USB designed to burn down your Laptops Read More source: www.techworm.net

March 17, 2015 · 1 min · 66 words · David Petty

Windows Hello, a bio-metric authentication method will be used for signing into Windows 10

Windows Hello will let user sign in to Windows 10 devices by using finger print, iris or face of the user making it more secure. Microsoft is a member of Fast Identity Online Alliance (FIDO) and this February, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would support theFIDO authentication methodwhich means transformation of passwords to stronger forms of identity. Today Microsoft unveiled two major features in line with the FIDO authentication which Microsoft will incorporate in its new Operating System Windows 10, that will be launched this year:...

March 17, 2015 · 2 min · 227 words · Autumn Franklin

Anonymous release 9200 pro ISIS Twitter ids and allege pro-ISIS bias by Facebook

Facebook pro ISIS? The Anonymous have also alleged that Facebook is taking sides in the ISIS clampdown. However according to Anonymous, Facebook sided with the ISIS and took down this page. Watch the video below : Read More source: www.techworm.net

March 16, 2015 · 1 min · 40 words · Erin Carney

Google acknowledges the memory leak bug in Android version 5.0.1 and above, says fix coming soon

Google has acknowledged the memory leak Bug present in Android 5.0.1 and higher and said that the patch to fix it will be released in the upcoming updates The memory leak bug which is present in all Android versions higher than Android 5.0.1 including the latest Android 5.1 makes your phone slower, with apps restarting or crashing on their own or a sudden drop in RAM and overall slowdown. With the release of latest Android 5....

March 16, 2015 · 1 min · 122 words · Mark Chapman DDS