Google introduced Face Unlocking feature in Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0). This is good security feature, all you have to do is take your phone show your face, unlock, unlock the phone. The bad side is, this feature can be hacked easily. If you have the photograph of the person, you can easily show that in front of camera and unlock the phone. In Android 4.1(Jelly Bean), Google actually patched the loop hole. In Jelly Bean, user has to Blink … [Read more...]
Path Uploads All Your Contacts To Its Servers [Alert]
February 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Path is a mobile social networking app for iPhone and Android. According to Arun Thampi, Path secretly uploads entire address book that includes full name , phone number and email address to its servers without warning the users. Arun found this when he was trying to port path for Mac OS X. Here is the response from Dave Morin, CEO of Path Arun, thanks for pointing this out. We actually think this is an important conversation and take this … [Read more...]
Private Browsing in Mozilla Firefox
May 23, 2010 By 24 Comments
As we know whenever we visit a website it's data is stored in History and in the Cache. This can be accessed by anyone who uses the same system. This is not safe in cases where the user uses his or her system for financial or any other transactions. So to combat such cases Mozilla has an option called Private Browsing. The advantage of this option that the Data is not stored in History and in the Cache Memory. Now you are Safe to Access All the … [Read more...]
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