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A rather worrying security vulnerability has been discovered which is affecting several D-Link branded modem routers. Posted on a website dedicated to Embedded Device Hacking, /dev/ttyS0, the vulnerability was discovered when one of its writers reverse engineered a firmware update from D-Link. The security vulnerability will allow full access into the …

Yahoo has finally announced that it will turn on HTTPS encryption by default for Yahoo Mail next year – four years after Google announced the same thing for Gmail, and two years for Microsoft during the transition between Hotmail and Outlook (it was an option in Hotmail in 2010). Incidentally, the …

Edward Snowden – the former NSA contractor who leaked documents of mass surveillance by intelligence agencies – has been chosen to present this year’s ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ on Channel 4 in the UK. Snowden uses the Alternative Christmas Message – which is now available online (you will need to login to watch …

Public Transport Victoria is now seeking to have a schoolkid charged for cybercrime, despite said schoolkid alerted them to a security vulnerability that would allow someone to access the personal information of nearly 600,000 public transport users. The database was for the old Metcard store – which was shut down …

The Anonymous-linked hacking group 1775 Sec has now confirmed that their attack on Dropbox is a fake. While the group claims that the DDOS attack was real, the data breach claim was designed to troll the tech press. “That was some serious Lulz. We DDoS attack DropBox! After it’s down …

A group purporting to be the Syrian Electronic Army – a hacking collective that supports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad – has said taken over the social media profiles belonging to Xbox. This comes after another Microsoft-owned property, Skype, also had their social media profiles hijacked by the group. Images posted by …

There have been rumours rumbling about a potential price drop in both Europe and Australia in the past week. Now, it’s confirmed – well, in Australia at least. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has announced today that they will drop the price of the 500GB PlayStation 4 from $549.95 to $479.95. …

It appears more Microsoft accounts have been hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, the hacking group that are supporters of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The group were able to successfully take over the Microsoft News Twitter account and the Official Microsoft Blog. @Official_SEA16 This post took 154 Retweets 🙂 …

We’re all familiar with how a login page works. We type in a username and password, and possibly a code sent to our phones, to a form. We click the submit button, and all of that data is sent to a server. That data is checked to a database, and …

TechGeek is currently at PAX Aus 2015 in Melbourne, and I was lucky enough to get my hands on the upcoming VR headset from PlayStation. There’s been a lot of hype about the hardware recently, with rumours of a new Until Dawn title being in development for use on the …