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Mozilla fixes 5 critical security vulnerabilities in FireFox

Recently Mozilla has released Firefox 14 and in doing so it has patched five critical security vulnerabilities and added support for HTTPS when searching over the internet via Google. The Major Security vulnerabilities on which mozila has worked are as follows.
The first critical bug fixed was a problem with Javascript: URLS. Firefox’s Javascript engine allows add-ons to execute scripts  in a sandbox. In some cases, Javascript: URLs are executed without sufficient context which can allow those scripts to escape from the sandbox and execute arbitrary code.

Hacker's Code of Ethics

With the growth of the Internet, computer security has become a major concern for businesses and governments. They want to be able to take advantage of the Internet for electronic commerce, advertising, information distribution and access, and other pursuits, but they are worried about the possibility of being "hacked." At the same time, the potential customers of these services are worried about maintaining control of personal information that varies from credit card numbers to social security numbers and home addresses.

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO pays just 1.05% for home loan

Zuckerberg's 5-bedroom house in Palo Alto, California
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is giving new meaning to the term "the one per cent." The Facebook founder refinanced a $5.95-million mortgage on his Palo Alto, California, home with a 30-year adjustable-rate loan starting at 1.05%, according to public records for the property.

Why energy grids are prime targets: Virus attacks

The electrical power grid is the backbone on which everything else depends on. A cyber criminal could debilitate a major city by a single targeted attack on the energy grid and compromise anything from the lights and appliances in homes, to heart monitors in hospitals, to air defence systems.

'war on terror' Decleared by Anonymous

Hacktivist group Anonymous has officially declared a war on terror after hacking into the accounts of a Middle Eastern bank.
The group threatened to unleash "global internet destruction" unless the Dahabshiil bank admitted to financing terrorist groups.
The hacking group has reportedly published thousands of bank account names and numbers and is threatening to destroy the bank's electronic systems if it does not publicly acknowledge that it helped terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab.

8 million passwords Hacked from gaming website Gamigo

Four months after the gaming site Gamigo warned users about a hacker intrusion that accessed some portions of its users’ credentials, more than 8 million usernames, emails and and encrypted passwordsfrom the site have been published on the Web, according to the data breach alert service PwnedList.