WHATSAPP users are being targeted by cybercriminals, who have unearthed a new way to pilfer your online bank account details. This is everything you need to know about the new hack, and how to avoid the scam. WhatsApp users should be careful to avoid a new scam that attempts to steal your bank accou...
- Friday, 19 May 2017 01:50
- By Anthony Frank
Is there a troll’s voice inside all of us at one time or another? In today’s online climate, we are witnessing friends unfollowing or actually unfriending each other, while people are boldly insulting each other with their offensive opinions, thoughts and comments. Research from Stanford and Co...
- Friday, 19 May 2017 01:18
- By Barbara Larson
Clueful promises to identify "misdemeanant apps on your iPhone." There has recently been a lot of concern into the way in which our iOS apps access our personal data, and then what they do with it once it has been collected. Since the whole Path debacle in particular, users seem...
- Thursday, 18 May 2017 17:11
- By Ashley
Weeks after Netflix was held to ransom by hackers over the unreleased season five of Orange Is The New Black, cyber thieves have struck again, this time targeting film giant Disney. Speaking to ABC employees at a town-hall meeting on 15 May in New York, CEO Bob Iger announced that hackers had infilt...
- Thursday, 18 May 2017 09:14
- By Paul L.
Adylkuzz is believed to have infected more computers than WannaCry, using the same vulnerabilities (AFP Photo/Damien MEYER)Paris (AFP) - Another large-scale, stealthy cyberattack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week's assault on computers worldwide, a global cybersecurity firm told AFP ...
- Thursday, 18 May 2017 00:58
- By Alex Grey
Is your system safe from WannaCry ransomware attack? Head over to find out how you can safeguard your Windows PC/Mac from this ransomware attack and avoid falling prey to it. WannaCry Ransomware Attack has been making international headlines across the world recently. Specifically targeting Mic...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 15:12
- By Bridget Miller
Where does the energy, the drive or perhaps the motivation come from? “Just don’t look at the comments” - a phrase too familiar to everyone who is online with an opinion. We say that to save our friends from the internet's dark side- the one that reeks of venomously upbrought entitlements we r...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:50
- By Barbara Larson
Depending on the source, the Internet either is—or isn’t—largely about porn. In the hilarious Broadway musical, Avenue Q, an R-rated send-up of Sesame Street, one of the puppet characters strikes it rich in online porn and leads the cast in the show’s most rollicking song, “The Internet I...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 14:33
- By Anthony Frank
Apple has just released iOS 10.3.2 to the public, following around a month and a half of beta testing that began shortly after iOS 10.3 came out. It's available as an over-the-air update or through iTunes for any devices that run iOS 10: the iPhone 5 and newer, the fourth-generat...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 08:55
- By Jennifer Levin
Lisa Swan @lisa_swan Mobile phone bills are seemingly more consumer-friendly and easier to understand these days, what with unlimited data deals becoming more prevalent, as well as the demise of traditional two-year contracts. Unfortunately, it's like looking at an Impressionist painting. It appears...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 07:17
- By Ashley
Ever wonder what your friends, neighbors, and co-workers are searching for online when no one else is around? Well, a new book has all those answers, plus more. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a former data scientist at Google. He spent that last four years going through thousands and thousand...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 04:52
- By Michael Sparr
Paladion’s John Daniele, at his firm’s cybersecurity monitoring centre in Oakville, Ont., says Canadian companies tend to lag their U.S. counterparts in spending on data security.(J.P. Moczulski/The Globe and Mail) That message from an Eastern European stranger who would like to make your acqua...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 03:07
- By Corey Parker
WannaCrypt/WannaCry ransomware has affected Windows XP systems across the globe.Image: Cisco Talos Factories, businesses and governments around the world are coming to terms with the largest ransomware attack observed in history. Organisations across the globe are coming to terms with the massive ra...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 01:59
- By Juan Kyser
Montreal-based Nex Evolution review: ‘Hacking’ through your wrist means a different kind of wearable
Wearables for the wrist generally fall under fitness or fashion with little in the way of modularity or expandability. The Nex Evolution is unlikely to turn heads for how it looks, but rather for what it can do. Originally a crowdfunded device from Montreal-based Mighty Cast, this band carries a ve...
- Tuesday, 16 May 2017 00:25
- By Alex Grey
Too many domain names with non-Latin letters are still shut out of the global Internet economy. ompanies that do business online are missing out on billions in annual sales thanks to a bug that is keeping their systems incompatible with Internet domain names made of non-Latin characters. Fixing it c...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 09:26
- By Logan Hochstetler
Ransomware is a form of malicious software that locks up the files on your computer, encrypts them, and demands that you pay to get your files back. Wanna Decryptor, or WannaCry, is a form of ransomware that affects Microsoft’s Windows operating system. When a system is infected, a pop up window a...
- Monday, 15 May 2017 09:03
- By Logan Hochstetler
If you’re buying a used phone, there’s always been one critical thing to look out for: whether the device is stolen. And finding that out is getting a bit easier today. The US wireless industry, through its trade group the CTIA, has launched a tool called the Stolen Phone Checker, which let...
- Sunday, 14 May 2017 06:05
- By Robert Alex
File photo. (REUTERS/Kacper Pempel ) Any car owner with a keyless entry and ignition system, be warned: Chinese security researchers have proven that with equipment costing about $25, hackers could easily open car doors remotely from up to 1,000 feet away, start the cars' engines and drive away. Sec...
- Saturday, 13 May 2017 16:19
- By Rosa Jourdan
I just watched “The Circle”, a thriller about a computer company which uses internet connectedness to eradicate privacy in the name of “transparency” and “democracy”. The film is fictional, but the conflict between privacy and internet capitalism is real. The giants of the computer world...
- Saturday, 13 May 2017 12:06
- By Ashley
Robocalls flooding your phone? Here’s how to stop them – or get a bit of revenge An unfamiliar number appears on your cellphone. It is from your area code, so you answer it, thinking it might be important. There is an unnatural pause after you say hello, and what follows is a recording telling y...
- Saturday, 13 May 2017 03:19
- By Alex Grey
An exterior view shows the main entrance of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, one of the hospitals whose computer systems were affected by a cyberattack, Friday, May 12, 2017.(Matt Dunham/AP Photo) A global cyberattack leveraging hacking tools widely believed by researchers to have...
- Saturday, 13 May 2017 01:35
- By Jesse Juarez
The computers are watching. Imagine if you lost your keys and instead of fishing around in the couch cushions, you could just pull out your phone and search for them. Just a quick, textual query with a quick response that they're on your desk, you doofus. This is not only possible; it's possible now...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 15:29
- By Edna Thomas
Net neutrality, the idea that internet service providers must treat everything equally, has been described as ‘the first amendment of the internet’. Photograph: Juice/REX/Shutterstock US campaigners rejoiced in 2015 when ‘net neutrality’ enshrined the internet as a free and level playing fie...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 12:16
- By Ashley
Original Story, 5/9/17 at 4:11 p.m: For serious Starbucks go-ers, their mobile app makes paying for your Grande iced coffee easy as can be - but users who chose to link their Starbucks account to their banks are finding themselves victims of a major scam. A reporter at Buzzfeed explained that l...
- Friday, 12 May 2017 02:02
- By Corey Parker
The job posting was for a personal assistant. It paid $350 a week and would involve picking up mail, dropping packages off at the post office and some shopping. Kaya was 31, had just returned to Toronto after working overseas and was desperate to make some money, so she replied to the Craigslist pos...
- Thursday, 11 May 2017 04:10
- By Edna Thomas
