In the ongoing battle to purge Twitter of content promoting terrorism, the social media company has closed hundreds of thousands of accounts in recent months. In its latest transparency report covering the period from July 1, 2016 through December 31, 2016, Twitter said it shuttered a total of 376,8...
- Monday, 27 March 2017 15:59
- By Ashley
HAVE you ever checked your phone and gotten the feeling that you’re being watched? Has an advertisement for a product or place ever popped up on your screen that you were just talking about? When security researcher Mustafa Al-Bassam stepped into a McDonald’s last year, he “almost had a heart...
- Monday, 27 March 2017 07:14
- By Anthony Frank
Recently, an internet privacy joint resolution (S.J. Res. 34), passed the U.S. Senate, with the support of Sen. Orrin Hatch. This resolution seeks to gut the FCC privacy protections that every U.S. internet user currently has. It would allow an Internet Service Provider ("ISP") to search your brows...
- Monday, 27 March 2017 03:39
- By Anthony Frank
The number of victims of identity theft rose by 57% last year, figures from fraud prevention service Cifas suggest. The data, taken from 261 companies in the UK, suggests fraudsters are increasingly getting people's personal information from social media sites. Cifas said Facebook, Twitter and Linke...
- Saturday, 25 March 2017 07:45
- By Grace Irwin
In 2016, the number of hacked websites rose by 32%, according to a recent blog post from Google. And, unfortunately, the search giant said it believes that number will continue to rise as hackers become more sophisticated. While 84% of webmasters who "apply for reconsideration" were...
- Thursday, 23 March 2017 02:35
- By Edna Thomas
WHATSAPP Web users are being warned after a vulnerability is discovered that allows hackers to access personal data - luckily there is a very simple fix that everyone should follow. Users of the popular WhatsApp Web service are being warned to restart their web browsers after a terrifying&...
- Wednesday, 22 March 2017 09:58
- By Wushe Zhiyang
It seems that every day we see stories of companies that have been hacked and frequently millions of passwords, credit card numbers or other key pieces of information make their way out of the computers where they are stored. It’s clear that the more information we have outside of our homes and on...
- Wednesday, 22 March 2017 07:11
- By Martin Grossner
Over 20 million Gmail and 5 million Yahoo decrypted accounts now reportedly for sale on the Dark Web
A dark web vendor is reportedly selling millions of decrypted Gmail and Yahoo accounts in an unspecified underground marketplace. Over 20 million Gmail accounts and five million Yahoo accounts from previous massive data breaches are now reportedly up for sale. A dark web vendor going by the name "Su...
- Tuesday, 21 March 2017 07:12
- By Linda Manly
WASHINGTON, United States — Google painted a bleak picture of cybersecurity trends Monday, saying the number of websites hacked rose 32 percent last year, with little relief in sight. “We don’t expect this trend to slow down. As hackers get more aggressive and more sites become outdated, hacke...
- Tuesday, 21 March 2017 01:02
- By Anthony Frank
Some people say the only way to stop online harassment is to stop going online. Well, we aren't going anywhere. Reclaim Your Domain is Refinery29's campaign to make the internet (and the world of outside it) a safer space for everyone — especially women. If Kim Kardashian's robbery taught us ...
- Thursday, 16 March 2017 04:28
- By Barbara Larson
Keeping malware off of your mobile device should be a top priority for anyone who purchases a new smartphone or tablet, but what if the battle against bad actors has been lost before you even open the box? That’s exactly what security firm Check Point says is happening right now, and it just relea...
- Wednesday, 15 March 2017 07:17
- By Patrick Moore
Cloudflare, which operates a widely used web content delivery network, announced a security bug on February 23 that caused sensitive data to leak from its customers’ websites. The exact number of websites potentially affected is unknown but some estimates place the total ...
- Thursday, 09 March 2017 05:35
- By Anthony Frank
More details surrounding the voluntary anti-piracy agreement between Google, Bing, and major rightsholders have emerged. In addition to efforts to mitigate pirate sites' efforts to jump domains to avoid downranking, the search engines will "exchange detailed information" with rightsholders "on a con...
- Thursday, 09 March 2017 03:49
- By Edna Thomas
The malware, developed during a hackathon between British and American spies, turns ordinary smart TVs into listening devices. Buried in a trove of classified and secret CIA documents leaked earlier on Tuesday are files that show British and American spies worked closely together to hack i...
- Wednesday, 08 March 2017 07:10
- By Grace Irwin
Last month cybersecurity firm Nuix released The Black Report, a white paper that contains specific tactics used by hackers, cybersecurity experts, and CISO and CSOs to attack and defend systems. The report, dissected extensively by ZDNet, found that some widely used defensive tactics are u...
- Saturday, 04 March 2017 05:16
- By Paul L.
With numerous high profile security breaches and hacks in the news, privacy and security are at top of mind for many. It's not just about emails either, all of your data is at risk including photos, text messages, files, and browser history. It's more important than ever to keep your personal data s...
- Friday, 03 March 2017 03:34
- By Rebecca Jenkins
University of Washington researchers have shown that Google’s new machine learning-based system to identify toxic comments in online discussion forums can be bypassed by simply misspelling or adding unnecessary punctuation to abusive words, such as “idiot” or “moron.” Perspective is a pro...
- Thursday, 02 March 2017 05:20
- By Barbara Larson
Thanks to Google and Tavis Ormandy, your personal information is secure. If you are a frequent user of Uber, Ok Cupid or FitBit, then know that your passwords, messages or the content of your emails might not be personal anymore. Someone out there might be going through your emails or reading your m...
- Monday, 27 February 2017 02:37
- By Barbara Larson
Google is attempting to tackle one of the most hostile places on the Internet: comment sections. This week, the search engine announced a new project called Perspective in collaboration with Jigsaw, a tech incubator owned by Google's parent company. "Imagine trying to have a conversatio...
- Monday, 27 February 2017 01:06
- By Alex Grey
Android still tends to be the default platform although iOS versions are usually available after a short delay. The issue of platform support is more important that it might appear. Even if you don’t personally use an iPhone, say, the fact that your favoured contacts do will render any app that do...
- Sunday, 26 February 2017 08:36
- By Carol R. Venuti
Cloudflare revealed yesterday that a bug in its code caused sensitive data to leak from some of the major websites that use its performance enhancement and security services. Uber, Fitbit, OkCupid and 1Password are among Cloudflare’s millions of clients, and it’s possible that per...
- Saturday, 25 February 2017 01:09
- By Anna K. Sasaki
For more than two decades, people have used the internet to research, shop, make friends, find dates, and learn about the world. And third parties have been watching--and learning. When you open a website, your browser doesn't just talk to the site you've intended to visit. The site may contain "thi...
- Friday, 24 February 2017 03:19
- By [Source: This article was published in inc.com By James Urton ]
Bank retailers and advertisers can track your online activity using Web "fingerprinting" techniques, but these methods usually only work across a single browser. Now, however, new technology can follow you anywhere online -- even if you switch browsers. The new tech makes it possible to establish a ...
- Friday, 24 February 2017 00:56
- By Alex Grey
We recently commented that the sale of Yahoo which will occur with a discount of 250 million dollars due to the security problems they have had in the past, two hacks that managed to break records in the list of “filtered data”. Now comes another negative news from the company about the third ha...
- Monday, 20 February 2017 01:36
- By Eric Beaudoin
What happens if a bad actor turns off your heat in the middle of winter, then demands $1,000 to turn it back on? Or even holds a small city’s power for ransom? Those kinds of attacks to personal, corporate, and infrastructure technology were among the top concerns for security experts from the SAN...
- Friday, 17 February 2017 04:48
- By Paul L.
