Sourav Bose | Geek

The site  Insecam  is doing simply that, gushing footage from roughly seventy five thousand internet joined IP cameras around the globe. The majority of the cameras are running default security settings, such as admin1 or password, as the accessing password. The website provides live streams of more than eleven thousand cameras in the United States alone, with a huge number of others from countries like Brazil, Japan, Russia, Morocco, Germany, United Kingdom, and the list goes on. Also, it matches the footage with Google Maps, pinpointing the precise area the live streams are originating from. In only a couple of minutes of browsing, people can discover live footage from areas as fluctuated as stores, parking spaces, garages and the insides of people’s homes. One especially unsettling camera feed was covering a bed, it is really unnerving.   IP cameras are different from closed circuit TV or CCTV cameras, why? It is simply because they stream footage specific...

Popular Android web browser, UC Browser, has been accused of leaking personal data of users. A security group investigated into the mobile browser and found that it was sending user data unencrypted, or with not enough encryption. UC Browser currently has more than 500 million registered users and is the most popular web browser in China and India. The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs conducted this investigation, and foun d out that unencrypted data included phone numbers, device serial numbers, apart from user search queries and geo-location data. This lack of encryption exposes information like user’s phone number, device number and location of the person to unethical hackers. “The transmission of this information “represents a privacy risk for users because it allows anyone with access to the data traffic to identify users and their devices, and collect their private search data ,” the report said. The security firm said that the...

Dearest, Here I am, standing beneath the tree where we first met all those years ago. I'm fulfilling my promise, love, the one where we said that every year we would spend our anniversary, even a small part of it, here, beneath the same canopy of leaves that watched over us in the beginning. The tree is taller now, and I doubt that I can still reach them even if I stood on my tiptoes. However, the cool breeze and the intoxicating smell of the flowers all around us remain the same, tickling my nose and bringing back old, fond memories. I remember how we met here, that fateful summer day. You smiled at me, and I remember stumblingon this very root on which I am sitting now. Your smile hypnotized me, and your laugh was the perfect compliment to the rustling of the leaves overhead. I also remember our very first date beneath this same tree. You made me a surprise picnic, a complete spread, and I felt so awkward and lacking, gripping the single red rose I had picked from our gardens ...