The words “privacy” and “internet” are sort of an oxymoron because it’s incredibly hard to be truly safe and anonymous on the internet. ISPs, browsers, and websites are constantly monitoring everything people do online and collecting their data. Cybercriminals should also be a major concer...
- Thursday, 03 September 2020 03:20
- By [Source: This article was published in thebuzzpaper.com By Devashish Pandey]
A recent research paper has reaffirmed that our internet history can be reliably used to identify us. The research was conducted by Sarah Bird, Ilana Segall, and Martin Lopatka from Mozilla and is titled: Replication: Why We Still Can’t Browse in Peace:On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of We...
- Wednesday, 02 September 2020 09:28
- By [Source: This article was published in privateinternetaccess.com By Caleb Chen]
LastPass' new Security Dashboard gives users a complete picture of their online security Knowing if your passwords have been leaked online is an important step to protecting your online accounts which is why LastPass has unveiled a new Security Dashboard which provides end users with a complete ov...
- Friday, 28 August 2020 06:25
- By [Source: This article was published in techradar.com By Anthony Spadafora]
Privacy on the internet is very important for many users, to achieve this they resort to TOR or a VPN. ButWhich is better? What are the advantages of using one or the other? In today’s article we are going to see in detail all the advantages and disadvantages that both have. If we talk about int...
- Tuesday, 25 August 2020 08:21
- By [Source: This article was published in explica.co]
The internet is a vast system of an interconnected network that provides information and communication anytime, anywhere. This 19th-century invention took the world by storm. However, it is still surprising to date how much information can get accessed on the internet without any hassle. With the ea...
- Thursday, 20 August 2020 06:21
- By [Source: This article was published in latesthackingnews.com By LHN Server]
Google, the company that’s making money from ads tailored to your preferences, will finally be more transparent about how ads work. Google, the company that has been involved in various privacy scandals that revealed the novel ways it was tracking your online activity or your location to improve i...
- Tuesday, 04 August 2020 04:58
- By [Source: This article was published in bgr.com By Chris Smith]
If you browse the web in Incognito mode, everything you do is private, right? In a word, no. Your internet service provider, for example, can still see your activity. This misconception has even turned into a legal battle. A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses Google of tracking users while in Inc...
- Tuesday, 21 July 2020 04:35
- By [Source: This article was published in foxwilmington.com By KIM KOMANDO]
“For me, trust has to be earned. It’s not something that can be demanded or pulled out of a drawer and handed over. And the more government or the business sector shows genuine regard and respect for peoples’ privacy in their actions, as well as in their word and policies, the more that trust ...
- Monday, 20 July 2020 02:13
- By [Source: This article was published in cpomagazine.com By RAFAEL MOSCATEL]
A VPN, commonly referred to as a virtual private network, is a server that provides you with a safe data surfing experience. Like Avast, a VPN creates an encrypted connection between the device and the VPN platform for protection against hackers. With the growing surveillance and censorship acts, ma...
- Saturday, 18 July 2020 02:31
- By [Source: This article was published in shoutoutuk.org By Shout Out UK]
As we close out 2019, we at Security Boulevard wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Privacy. We all know what it is, but in today’s fully connected society can anyone actually have it? For many years, it ...
- Friday, 17 July 2020 02:18
- By [Source: This article was published in securityboulevard.com By Jason Paul Kazarian]
Internet security, like vaccination, should aim to protect the whole herd. Back in my days as a web developer, we did our development and testing in porn mode. Those outside the industry might refer to this as an “incognito window,” but the phrase “porn mode” is universally understood becaus...
- Wednesday, 15 July 2020 00:45
- By [Source: This article was published in bloomberg.com By Elaine Ou]
Because the internet is a strange and complicated place, the fate of your digital privacy is, at this very moment, intertwined with that of online message boards and comment sections. And things, we're sorry to report, aren't looking so hot. At issue is the seemingly unrelated EARN IT Act. Pushed b...
- Monday, 13 July 2020 01:19
- By [Source: This article was published in mashable.com By JACK MORSE]
Privacy-preserving AI techniques could allow researchers to extract insights from sensitive data if cost and complexity barriers can be overcome. But as the concept of privacy-preserving artificial intelligence matures, so do data volumes and complexity. This year, the size of the digital universe...
- Saturday, 11 July 2020 03:14
- By [Source: This article was published in urgentcomm.com By Brian Buntz]
There are more than 15 billion stolen account credentials circulating on criminal forums within the dark web, a new study has revealed. Researchers at cyber security firm Digital Shadows discovered usernames, passwords and other login information for everything from online bank accounts, to music...
- Thursday, 09 July 2020 00:48
- By [Source: This article was published in independent.co.uk By Brien Posey]
We all live in a digital world in which being in constant touch with technology is not just an option, but it is a necessity. This definitely has had a number of positive effects on society, but it also comes with its fair share of drawbacks. And one such drawback is in terms of the whole host of pr...
- Monday, 15 June 2020 06:13
- By [Source: This article was published in newspatrolling.com]
With much of the country still under some form of lockdown due to COVID-19, communities are increasingly reliant upon the internet to stay connected. The coronavirus’s ability to relegate professional, political, and personal communications to the web underscores just how important end-to-end encr...
- Friday, 12 June 2020 01:04
- By [Source: This article was published in insidesources.com By Oliver McPherson-Smith]
Around the world, a diverse and growing chorus is calling for the use of smartphone proximity technology to fight COVID-19. In particular, public health experts and others argue that smartphones could provide a solution to an urgent need for rapid, widespread contact tracing—that is, tracking who ...
- Thursday, 16 April 2020 09:09
- By [Source: This article was published in eff.org By Andrew Crocker, Kurt Opsahl, and Bennett Cyphers]
TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity. [UPDATE: According to Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan's Facebook post on the morning of March 23, TraceTogether has b...
- Thursday, 16 April 2020 03:58
- By [Source: This article was published in mobihealthnews.com By Dean Koh]
The lawsuit against Amir Golestan and his web-services provider firm Micfo is shedding light on the ecosystem that governs the world of online spammers and hackers, a Wall Street Journal article said on Monday (Feb. 17). In this first-of-its-kind fraud prosecution of a small technology company, Go...
- Monday, 02 March 2020 03:30
- By [Source: This article was published in pymnts.com By PYMNTS]
PortSwigger Web Security has released its annual rundown of the best web hacking techniques of 2019. The 10 methods, chosen by a junction of community and expert panelists, are defined, predominately, by breathing new life into once dated techniques. Collective research that succeeds in fixing som...
- Wednesday, 19 February 2020 01:56
- By [This article is originally published in portswigger.net By Catherine Chapman]
"In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes." So said the artist Banksy, but following the rush to put everything online, from relationship status to holiday destinations, is it really possible to be anonymous - even briefly - in the internet age? That saying, a twist on Andy Warhol's ...
- Friday, 10 January 2020 01:36
- By [Source: This article was published in bbc.com By Mark Smith]
It’s a known fact that Google, along with other major tech players like Amazon, Apple, and Facebook, is increasingly trying to grab a slice of the $3 trillion dollar healthcare industry. Now, the search giant is flexing its cloud muscle to team up with healthcare providers to make further inroad...
- Thursday, 26 December 2019 03:59
- By [Source: This article was published in thenextweb.com By RAVIE LAKSHMANAN]
In Summary Every time you use your Android device, access YouTube, Instagram or WhatsApp, even your internet provider is in on it - Big Brother is watching. A fraudster now has key information that could allow them access banking details, government accounts etc. According to University of Massachus...
- Monday, 28 October 2019 01:32
- By [Source: This article was published in nation.co.ke By ADEMA SANGALE]
A once-unified online world has broken into new warring states. The global internet continues to fragment. Governments, in particular, are using their influence to shape the ways that digital companies, markets, and rights connect us online. This new form of realpolitik, which we call “digitalpoli...
- Saturday, 05 October 2019 02:59
- By [Source: This article was published in foreignpolicy.com By Sean Mcdonald and An Xiao Mina]
[Source: This article was published in fbi.gov - Uploaded by the Association Member: Carol R. Venuti] Operation SaboTor, a multi-agency law enforcement action between January and March 2019 that targeted opioid sales on the Darknet, included this search of a vehicle and a residence in California. Th...
- Thursday, 05 September 2019 15:00
- By [Source: This article was published in fbi.gov]
