Here’s a little roundup for your Saturday.
- The Huffington Post reports that JPMorgan Chase & Company reported early last month that up to 465,000 prepaid card holders’ personal information may have been accessed by hackers responsible for a July network attack.
- Rob Jenkins of the University of York and Christie Kerr of the University of Glasgow published a paper detailing research they conducted, which shows that “readily identifiable images of faces can be extracted from reflections in the corneas of well-lit subjects in photos taken by sufficiently high resolution cameras[,]” according to The Economist.
- The Hacker News reports Google’s Chromium Browser now includes a special feature that encrypts cookies stored on a web browser to make it difficult for a potential hacker with local access to view cookie content
s. The Chrome and Android operating systems are already equipped with such a feature.
- The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) hacked Microsoft’s official Twitter account and posted, “Don’t use Microsoft emails(hotmail,outlook). They are monitoring your accounts and selling the data to the governments. #SEA” as well as, “Leak: The top two visited links from IE: google.com/chrome and Mozilla.org/firefox #SEA.” Soon thereafter, SEA also hacked the email account of Microsoft Creative Director, Steve Clayton. This information comes from a report released by E-Hacking News.
- CBS News reports that cybercriminals will target smart appliances, social networks, the cloud, android, and Java in 2014.
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