New Delhi: As Apple slugs it out with FBI on privacy issues, India today said strong encryption technology to secure data and communications in smartphones, including those made by the US-based firm, is a challenge for law enforcement agencies. It said however that a tool for mobile forensics has beenRead More

Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google,Read More

Mumbai: The practice of bug hunting has picked up significant pace over the years and numerous security enthusiasts—both young and old—have assisted large-scale businesses to identify their security loopholes. Recently, a 10-year old youth has managed to discover a major flaw on Instagram, which fetched him Rs 6,65604.50 ($10,000) fromRead More

New Delhi: Indian security agencies are unable to decrypt some of the communication on platforms like WhatsApp to readable formats for various reasons such as technical as well as legal and regulatory policy, Parliament was informed . “Security/law enforcement agencies face difficulty while dealing with encrypted communications by various applicationRead More

New Delhi: As per a recent study, retweeting could make you forget what you read. Researchers suggest that if you want to maintain an interesting post in mind that you came across on social media, do not hit the share or retweet button. Research at Cornell University and Beijing UniversityRead More

New Delhi: As per a recent study, retweeting could make you forget what you read. Researchers suggest that if you want to maintain an interesting post in mind that you came across on social media, do not hit the share or retweet button. Research at Cornell University and Beijing UniversityRead More

Mumbai: Facebook Inc’s quarterly revenue rose more than 50 percent, handily beating Wall Street expectations as its wildly popular mobile app and a push into live video lured new advertisers and encouraged existing ones to boost spending. The company’s shares rose 9.5 percent in after-hours trading on Wednesday to $118.39,Read More

Delhi: Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad’s directive is a step towards harnessing the full potential of mobile devices which could be a potent tool in ensuring women’s safety. Karbonn Mobiles have already been working on developing a mobile SOS app for women which would be unrolling for KarbonnRead More

Washington: The FBI has provisionally decided not to share an iPhone unlocking mechanism used by a contractor to open the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters because the agency does not own the mechanism, two US government sources said on Tuesday. The FBI is expected within days toRead More

San Francisco: Apple sold more than 51 million iPhones in the first three months of this year – and that’s the problem. That’s 10 million fewer iPhones than the tech giant sold during the same quarter a year ago. As a result, Apple on Tuesday reported its first drop inRead More