A recent study about iPhone passcodes revealed that several users use unsecure passcodes for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. This study shows that people are more than vulnerable if their mobile phone or gadget lands in the hands of intruders.

Mobile devices have become the lifeline of our existence. From making simple calls, these devices have now transformed into smartphones allowing us to keep in touch with family and friends, checking our email, check our favorite websites, read news, banking online and more.

Privacy concerns around Nissan’s new LEAF CARWINGS system, sending out GPS co-ordinates and location information while driving without owner’s permission.

Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper is a system rescue disk creator that can be used for removing nasty virus and other malware infections by running an offline scan.

Eight weeks after Mozilla rolled out Firefox 4, it has launched a beta version of its fifth edition of the Firefox Web browser on Monday. Firefox 5 is faster and fixes plenty of bugs left over from Firefox 4. It’s new features include performance and stability enhancements, a channel switcher and CSS animations standard.

The much awaited laptop powered by Google Chrome (a cloud-based operating system) is all set for launch on June 15. The Chromrebook should always be connected to the Internet in order to make use of its functionalities. In other words, everything will be on cloud and you’ll need Internet to access all of the apps, documents, photos, movies etc. Installing softwares or updating them, taking backup of files or running anti-virus checks and all other PC related tasks will be eliminated as everything will be done over the cloud.

As expected always, Google must release a statement on this very soon. Over the years, Google has grown extremely protective of Google Chrome and it was only time before someone hacked the sandbox.

Using Protection is a free (for personal use) browser extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that will remove any scam, clickjacking or suspicious links from the Facebook pages you visit.

Reports have started pouring in that CCAvenue, India’s largest payment gateway has been hacked and all the administrator passwords of various merchants using CCAvenue has been stolen in the process.

The PlayStation Network has been thoroughly compromised. Hackers have access to all your personal details stored on the PSN. Credit Cards used on the PlayStation Network to purchase PS3/PSP games might also have been compromised.

The National Security Agency is allegedly building a supercomputer whose speed can be measured in exaFLOPS. This supercomputer will cost about $895.6 million and will be an asset to the NSA’s cryptology department. The NSA supercomputer is to be built by 2015

Over the past couple of years or so, I have used Microsoft Security Essentials as my only virus and malware protection tool. The Free Antivirus tool from Microsoft is definitely worth installing on your PC.

I have come to love Evernote as a note-taking and idea collecting software. I have used it extensively for the past couple of years or more to store bits and pieces of information that has come in handy all through these years.

Veracode is an independent security firm investigating into privacy of Android apps and Pandora has emerged as the new culprit of data leakage.

WordPress 3.1.1 released. WordPress 3.1.1 fixes several security flaws in media uploader, prevents PHP from crashing due to malicious links in comments and patches an XSS flaw.