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Google Catches Child Pornographer Via Email

41-year old, Houston native, John Henry Skillern was arrested Tuesday, July 29th on charges of possessing and promoting child pornography, and is being held in custody on a $200,000 bond.  The tip that...

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Forget the NSA, Facebook wants to take over your phone

Reportedly 1,000,000,000 people have already downloaded the new Facebook Messenger app. The separate app will allow people to communicate with Facebook friends without having to launch the full app,...

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“NSA Proof” Blackphone rooted in a matter of minutes

Well, that was short lived. Have you heard of the supposedly “NSA proof” Black phone?  Basically, Blackphone, the love child between encrypted communications firm Silent Circle and Spanish Smartphone...

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Super High Res Image Satellite is Launched

Companies with satellite maps, such as Google and Microsoft, are about to gain the ability to have an even clearer vision of Earth. A satellite capable of taking the highest legal resolution images,...

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Snowden makes more claims against NSA

Edward Snowden, who doesn’t really need an introduction anymore, is making new claims regarding the NSA. Back in November 2012, Syria, in the midst of civil war, suddenly lost all internet connection....

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Anonymous and Police disagree on the name of the Ferguson shooter

Members of the worldwide hacktivist group, Anonymous, have made it their mission to uncover the name of the Ferguson, Missouri law enforcement officer involved in a shooting, and they have achieved...

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Community Health Systems Hit by Data Breach. 4.5 Million Affected

Community Health Systems, Inc. has confirmed that its computer network was the target of an external, criminal cyber attack between April and June of this year that has affected the data of...

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Want to track your spouse? Go to Google!!

Privacy may be the buzzword of 2014, ladies and gentlemen. In fact, I’m calling it. It is official: Privacy IS the buzzword of 2014. If you have a smartphone, have location services enabled(or you’re...

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Delaware to allow digital assets to be placed in your will

When you die, the hope is that you have a will that passes on your things.  However, it has long been the situation that your digital accounts are lost.  Unless, of course, you leave a  lengthy list of...

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Flashback Friday: University of Maryland Data Breach

Flashback Friday : On Feb 19, 2014, Milton Security Group broke the story that the University of Maryland had been the subject of a major security breach.  Since that time, the CIO resigned/retired,...

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NSA has its own Surveillance Google

The United States National Security Agency, more popularly referred to as the NSA,  has built it’s own kind of search engine.  It’s an information-sharing database that allows not only the NSA, but...

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Celebrity Nude Photos Data Breach: Is it Preventable?

We all heard about the major data breach this weekend involving female celebrity nude photos. In fact, that’s all we heard about yesterday: Jennifer Lawrence’s nude pics. It was all about JLaw, which...

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How many places have your data already?

Data is King, and he who has the most…….sells it on the black market for lots of money.  Over the past week, I’ve come across some situations that have made me think twice about what information I give...

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Best Practices For Protecting Your Company from Data Breaches

Home Depot, Target, Michaels, UPS, Albertsons…the list of recently breached organizations goes on and on.  Nobody wants be on this list! So, how do you protect yourself? The first step to recovery is...

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Apple to Add Security Alerts to iCloud

Last week the world was rattled by the massive exposure of private photos belonging to celebrities.  At the center of the privacy storm was Apple’s iCloud, which reportedly had been found to be...

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Facebook Rolls out New Privacy Audit Tool

Insanely popular social media platform, Facebook began rolling out a new tool last week to help manage privacy settings for your posts and your information shared. The “Privacy Checkup Tool” was...

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Home Depot Confirms Data Breach

Home Depot confirmed yesterday that their payment security systems had been breached, and that it is indeed possible that it is massive. Previously, Home Depot had announced that they were working in...

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5 Million Google Passwords Leaked

A database that appears to include approximately 5 million login and password credentials for Google Accounts has been spotted in a Russian BitCoin security online forum. The forum user tvskit,  who is...

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Security Flaw Found in Amazon Kindle

A security flaw in Amazon’s Kindle software could be compromising your Amazon account details. Benjamin Daniel Musser, a German security researcher who discovered the issue, posted a proof-of-exploit...

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StealthGenie CEO Arrested For Selling Spy Software

So what happens when you come up with a way to spy on people, and then market it and sell it online? You get arrested, of course!  Well, at least a couple of them did. It’s difficult to believe, but...

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