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Twitter tightens security after increased cyber attacks

After a series of activities/attacks from hackers on media organizations and celebrity profiles, Twitter is increasing its security by bringing up a new login verification system. It will ensure if it is really you who is signing in, says Twitter. In recent time, some twitter feeds were attacked by hackers and even delivered fake tweets from the accounts of various news organizations like Financial Times and The Associated Press etc. Also, some hackers got into AP's Twitter account and posted fake tweets about US President Barack Obama being seriously injured in blasts at White house. Recently, Twitter said that it is going to implement a brand new login verification system which will surely tighten the security of Twitter accounts. It is actually a type of two-factor authentication I which the second security check will make sure if is you or an automated application or a hacker is trying to get access into your account. However, AP suspended their account on Twitter af...

Beware of Hackers: They can get into your brain in no time.

Introduction: Believe it or not, but scientists have claimed that it is not that difficult to get into a human brain. They said: a technology worth a few thousand dollars, can retrieve useful information out from the person’s brain, through hacking. This article deals with the brief descrition about this brain hacking technology issue. BCI: Off the Self Emotive brain. The group of scientists and researchers from  ‘University of Oxford’,  ‘Geneva and University of California, Burkley’ have shown the demo of this human brain hacking technology with the help of ‘Off the Self-Emotive Brain Computer Interface(B.C.I.)’.  This technology gets ready to use in some thousand dollars. In the experiment, the people were made set before a computer screen and said to wear a head piece on their ears. And it was really amazing and shocking to see that just by punching some buttons on keyboard, there were images of  the maps storing the places, bank account details,...