Earlier this week, Microsoft admitted that they have accessed a French Blogger's private Hotmail account to identify a former Microsoft employee who had leaked the company's trade secrets in 2012. Microsoft defined this private investigation as part of "Protecting our customers and the security and integrity of our products", mentioned in the Microsoft's terms of service, which says that the

Another leak from Edward Snowden files, but this time not about the NSA, rather the documents revealed that France's central intelligence agency, the DGSE has complete and unconditional access to all of telecom giant Orange’s data, not just metadata. Yes! It is the same Orange company who threatened to sue the NSA for hacking into the underwater cable that it jointly owns with 15 other

Till now we all were aware about the truth that tech companies gave legal access to user data on the government's request, but we were unaware that well known tech companies also charge the government for providing data. Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the pro-hacker group, who had compromised Microsoft's Twitter account and blog, earlier this year and Microsoft did announce a breach on its

2014 - The Year for Encryption! Good News for Security & Privacy seekers, Gmail is now more secure than ever before. Google has announced that it has enhanced encryption for its Gmail email service to protect users from government cyber-spying; by removing the option to turn off HTTPS. <!-- adsense --> So from today, Gmail will always use an encrypted HTTPS connection by default when you

Recently we aware you about the tricky phishing scam targeting Google Docs and Google Drive, a similar phishing scam has been detected by the researchers targeting Apple users to steal users’ credentials. According to the researchers at Netcraft, a UK based security services company, the hackers have compromised the web server owned by the gaming company, Electronic Arts (EA) to host a