Cyber Threats:The Year That Was 2014

1. The year of 2014 was a hectic and busy year for CISOs and CIOs. There were many revelation by ex- Employees about their agencies gathering information or spying on even friendly nations in the name National Security.
2. Wikileaks, Snowden, PRISM etc scared the hell out of common Internet users as well as Governments across the world. Everyone felt naked. There was an aura of Disbelief that swept across EU and other friendly nations of US when it was revealed that their data transmissions were intercepted by NSA to "Quell " any suspected Terrorist strikes.
3. Similarly revelation of many long standing Bugs and vulnerabilities by various independent researchers introduced the cyberworld of Heartbleed, Shellshock,etc . It's possible that these vulnerabilities had been exploited by them for years.
4. Lastly not to mention was the case of iOS being targeted big time by WireLurker.
5. Are we going to see the resurgence of old bugs or there are going to be some new evils that will emerge in 2015!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are Being Tracked and Yes ! YOU have agreed to it!!!!!!!

1. Recent years have seen uncovering of many secret projects, government sponsored, wherein unsuspected users of Internet have been subject to monitoring of their activities without even being aware of. 
2. Neither the permission nor willingness or permission of all those subjected to monitoring were sought. they were also not informed of it.PRISM, Snowden, Wikileaks etc may not be a strange name now.
3. However Are You aware that at times "YOU ARE APPROVING THE TRACKING OF YOUR MOVEMENT "
4. Yes you read it correctly, but HOW.

• Here's How! When you log into your account through mobile/smart phone, you are asked to accept "track My Location". By using this the Google Maps keep on putting blips for every movement and keep track of it.
• Secondly Track my location is also utilised by most of the users to locate nearest available Store, Cinema houses, Bus Stations, Restaurants etc. This way you get the information of your locality. BUT you have also given away your location.
• Check this web sit out for proof of it!

http://junkee.com/google-maps-has-been-tracking-your-every-move-and-theres-a-website-to-prove-it/39639