News & Reviews:   Security

There was news a few months ago that a large scale hacking event transpired involving Yahoo accounts, which amounted to about half a million different accounts. Now a new report has surfaced, stating that the data breech is bigger than expected. A further 1 billion accounts was compromised, on top of the previous number of account.

Information compromised may have included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and there’s a possibility that some security questions and answers were also compromised. Yahoo believes the reason for the breach was that a hacker was able to figure out how to forge cookies to gain access to these accounts. Yahoo already started to email affected customers on this matter, and have taken steps to rectify this issue.

You should check your account, as a new bug has made headlines with Android accounts across the world. Thanks to the Gooligan bug, several malicious apps have been downloaded by Android users allowing the malware inside them to wreak havoc with as many as 1.3 million Google accounts.

After their purchase of the company SurfEasy that provides easy-to-use VPN apps, Opera has finally released Opera VPN for Android for free as a standalone app.

Having a secure mobile experience is crucial these days, as many unscrupulous people will want to get their grubby little fingers into your account. Hence why a secure mobile phone is important. A security analyst said that the best phones to have now are the Nexus devices, and phones from Samsung.

Head's up. If you use either Google Mail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail (or even all of them) as your main mail service, you might want to change the account access password pronto, as a total of 97 million account details from the three services has fallen to the hands of unscrupulous individuals online.