Tag Archives: data security

Scientists Store One Bit of Data on a Single Atom — Future of Data Storage

Imagine a pocket-sized hard drive capable of storing the entire list of 35 Million Songs?

This isn’t yet practical, but IBM has just taken a big step towards improving computing technology: IBM researchers just discovered a way to store data on a single atom.

Data storage is undergoing dramatic evolution, recently researchers successfully stored digital data — an entire operating system, a

Scientists Store an Operating System, a Movie and a Computer Virus on DNA

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years.

Just last year, Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on using DNA as a data storage medium.

However, in the latest experiments, a pair of

Phone-Hacking Firm Cellebrite Got Hacked; 900GB Of Data Stolen

The company that sells digital forensics and mobile hacking tools to others has itself been hacked.

Israeli firm Cellebrite, the popular company that provides digital forensics tools and software to help law enforcement access mobile phones in investigations, has had 900 GB of its data stolen by an unknown hacker.

But the hacker has not yet publicly released anything from the stolen data

DailyMotion Hacked — 85 Million User Accounts Stolen

Another day, another data breach.

This time a popular video sharing platform DailyMotion has allegedly been hacked and tens of millions of users information have been stolen.

Breach notification service LeakedSource announced the data breach on Monday after the company obtained 85.2 Million records from Dailymotion.
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According to LeakedSource, the DailyMotion data breach

Russian Court bans LinkedIn in Russia; Facebook and Twitter Could be Next

As reported late October, the world’s largest online professional network LinkedIn is going to ban in Russia beginning Monday following a Moscow court decision this week that found Microsoft-owned LinkedIn to be in violation of the country’s data protection laws.

Here’s why LinkedIn is facing ban in Russia:

In July 2014, Russia approved amendments to the Russian Personal Data Law that came

Apple Weakens iOS 10 Backup Encryption; Now Can Be Cracked 2,500 Times Faster

After the iPhone encryption battle between Apple and the FBI, Apple was inspired to work toward making an unhackable future iPhones by implementing stronger security measures even the company can’t hack.

Even at that point the company hired one of the key developers of Signal — one of the world’s most secure, encrypted messaging apps — its core security team to achieve this goal.

But it