Facebook has announced that they are curating a database of reported ‘revenge porn’ images in an attempt to curtail the practice on the social network. Revenge Porn on Social Networks Revenge porn is not a new concept. It can come in many different shapes and forms. For online scammers, they […]
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Internet providers promise not to sell your info…but they totally could
Trump is set to sign yet another executive order, this time undoing a regulation that would block internet providers from being able to mine and sell your information. But don’t worry, Comcast, Verizon and AT&T promise not to do that. They totally could, though. The move is the latest in […]
Daplie Cloud project makes secure personal servers a reality
Daplie Cloud project from IndieGOGO has made it possible for every the layman who doesn’t understand servers to have one of their own. Cloud services have become the standard for content and data storage, and as mobile manufacturers in particular limit on board storage, it becomes a necessity. But the […]
Your VISA credit card could be compromised with a single guess
VISA has claimed for some time to be doing everything in their power to secure online payments and accounts from hackers. But now a paper is claiming that a major security flaw may not exist from any fancy magnetic device, or backdoor phishing expeditions. It could be as simple as […]
Short URLs have been cracked for spying
Researches testing the boundaries of privacy in short URLs have cracked them, allowing for potential spying. You probably use short URLs in your every day life: on Twitter, in emails, maybe on your blog. They are both convenient and, we once thought, secure. But researchers have managed to crack the […]
NSA planned to harvest user’s information from Google’s app store
How far should security go, and how much privacy should be taken from citizens in the name of security is a question asked by many. Is it security if the NSA (National Security Agency.) hack into the Google Play store to put spyware on smartphones? This is something the NSA […]
Samsung denies privacy risk after being called out on their creepy privacy policy
By now, you have probably heard about the discovery made by Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Parker Higgins. Last week, he found a portion of the endless Samsung privacy policy for their Smart TV’s that warned users now to say anything sensitive or revealing in front of their televisions, lest it be […]
