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Anthem Data Breach — 6 Things You Need To Know The Nation’s second largest  Health insurer company, Anthem , alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of over 80 Millions of its customers, making it the largest data breach and double the number of payment cards affected by  Target data breach  occurred in 2013. The stolen personal information includes residential addresses, birthdays, medical identification numbers, Social Security Numbers, email addresses and some income data belonging to both current and former customers and employees, including its own chief executive. 80 Million is a vast number — it's roughly the populations of California, Texas and Illinois when combined together. So far, there is no evidence whether financial or medical information of the company’s customers was compromised, according to a statement given by Anthem’s vice president, Kristin Binns. The health giant, based in Indianapol...

Hacktivist Group Anonymous (#OpISIS) Takes Down Islamic State (ISIS) Social Media Accounts The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a massive cyber attack against Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, who were also  responsible for the terrorist attack against the Paris offices of satirical magazine  Charlie Hebdo . ISIS has a huge social media presence, with multiple Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts. In a video appeared on Youtube,  Anonymous group  and  RedCult  announced the operation  #OpISIS  and claimed to have carried out cyber attack against hundreds of Twitter and Facebook accounts used by the Islamic State for its own propaganda and to recruit new members. According to the video, Operation  #OpISIS  is coordinated by “ Muslims, Christians, Jews ” alike and a masked individual discusses the aim of the campaign. They are “ hackers, crackers, Hacktivist, phishers...

Samsung Admits Its Smart TV Is Spying On You Is Your Smart TV Spying On You?  You just need to make sure you don't hold any private conversations in front of the internet-connected TV. IS SMART TV GETTING TOO SMART? Smart TVs are connected to the Internet, and they are capable of collecting and transmitting our data. Samsung's Smart TV   uses  voice recognition technology  to enable voice commands, but its privacy policy defined by the company says " if your spoken words include personal or other sensitive information, that information will be captured and transmitted to a third party. " In other words, Samsung's Voice Recognition feature is always listening you, unless you deactivate it. So these internet-enabled smart devices can be exploited to reveal a wealth of personal. " In addition, Samsung may collect and your device may capture voice commands and associated texts so that we can provide you with Voice Recogniti...

KickAss Torrent Download Website Seized So far, the torrent users didn’t forget the incident of The Pirate Bay seizer, that another most popular Torrent website,  KickAss Torrents , has been kicked off by the Somalian registry. KickAss Torrent download website  has lost access to its  Kickass.so  - the Somalian domain with millions of unique visitors per day and the most visited torrent website on the Internet. The domain is currently offline and, according to TorrentFreak, the Somalia based KickAss Torrent download domain was recently listed as "banned" by the .so registry, forcing the site's operators to switch to another domain. Just like  The Pirate Bay , KickAss Torrents is also a well-known torrent download service that has often been criticized for providing easy access to pirated content, so it’s no surprise that the ban came following a complaint received by Somalian authorities. KickAss Torrents website stopped working a...