If you run or own a website that doesn't enforce HTTPS, browsers will soon flag it as 'Not secure' (simply because it isn't). It's time to enforce HTTPS.
Computer hacking outside movies is hard, it involves slow comprehensive work, deep reconnaissance about targets, repetitive and boring tasks, until the little boy gets inside the cage. It is usually misinterpreted by Hollywood, thus came the term `Hollywood Hacking`
The first most basic rule is: simply do not take them, that's the foremost technique to nip the propagation of private photos, for the rest of the cases continue reading.
When it comes to blogs and websites security, it's not always your programmer's mistake (though most of time it is), sometimes it's yours; and it's doubled when you are your own programmer.
Due to the solemnity of the recently discovered security loopholes (stated subsequently), 2014 is nominated to be the year of credential theft, online payment fraud and privacy violation.
In case you are familiar with Man in the middle attacks I don't expect you doing any of those stuff under untrusted WiFi (same for wired ones), else you should think twice before executing any activity under public access points.
Scared? Well you should be !
You daily deal with a limited number of passwords you easily memorize despite their complexity. But how about the other numerous ones you don't utilize on daily basis?
Gauss White, a malware hitting targeting the Lebanese Banking Sector; A Nation-state cyber-espionage Trojan, cousin of Flame and Stuxnet. Everything you need to know from a political perspective.