There seems to be a newly discovered bug which causes Messages on iOS to crash when the following text is received. It can also cause the iPhone to reboot. Dubbed #effectivepower on Twitter, you simply copy the following text (with line breaks) and send it in a message to an iPhone user. effective. Power Ù„ÙÙ„ÙصّبÙÙ„ÙلصّبÙررً… Read More
The hole in OpenSSL known as Heartbleed supposedly affects up to a fifth of all secure web servers. Having such a large portion of the servers affected there is a likelihood that you might have an account that has been compromised. Filippo Valsorda is the 19 year old behind the code that allows you to… Read More
My Twitter account was compromised (I have since changed my password) which resulted in some of my friends recently receiving direct messages from me offering options to lose weight. People that have had their account hacked will be sending messages similar to this one: did not think i was really going to lose weight, i… Read More
A NSW Police cybercrime expert recommends using Ubuntu, Puppy Linux or the Apple iPhone, steering clear of Microsoft Windows if you want to bank online. In a news article Detective Inspector Bruce vad der Graaf says: If you are using the internet for a commercial transaction, use a Linux boot up disk – such as… Read More