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Deepfake Safety: Five Things You Can Do Today

The generation of images, videos, and voices through artificial intelligence is evolving at a pace that demands we establish clear criteria and good habits to defend ourselves from the dangers of abusing these technologies. Deepfakes are already part of our everyday online life, so it is a very good idea…

Top Online Scams to Be Aware of in 2025

The internet is undoubtedly full of great content, hobbies, information, offers, products, and people, but there’s also a darker side to it. We might not realise it, but every day we’re exposed to threats and scams as we navigate the online world. Curiosity and trust can be exploited to lure…

Meet the new features for Avast Free AV and Avast Premium Security

With millions of active users worldwide, Avast stands as a benchmark in cybersecurity. Why? Because of the quality of its solutions, the reach of its tools and because it is a platform in continuous evolution. A platform that today, once again, places our security at the forefront by reinforcing every…

FCC Kills Net Neutrality

FCC Kills Net Neutrality

News December 14, 2017

US Federal Communications Commission votes 3-to-2 to allow ISPs to now charge different prices for different internet speeds and access. Regulations that were put in place under President Barack Obama sought to ensure that all internet users had access to the “same” internet, but a party-line vote on December... Read more
YouTube Hiring 10,000 Moderators To Police Inappropriate Content 
Google-owned YouTube is to hire thousands more moderators to try and clean up its content.   The new staff will be responsible for trying to get rid of videos that are offensive, violent, terrorism related, or just plain inappropriate for children.    YouTube’s new policy comes after months of sustained accusations that children have been routinely viewing inappropriate content that was completely unsuitable for their... Read more
Hidden Keylogger Discovered In ‘Hundreds’ Of HP Laptops
Preinstalled software has been discovered on HP laptop models, that could have been recording every letter and keystroke on users’ keyboards. The keylogger security flaw was discovered by researcher Michael Myng, who found a hidden software could be present in over 460 different HP laptop models – including the EliteBook, ProBook, Pavilion... Read more
Ghostery: A Faster, Safer, Smarter Browsing Experience
We review Ghostery, the Google Chrome browser extension designed to keep your online world private. Ghostery, is all about helping users protect their privacy online, by stopping advertisers, social media, and other services from collecting and storing your browsing and shopping habits. If you believe your valuable personal data should remain... Read more
Terror Goes Hi-Tech With Robots
Terrorists ‘certain’ to get killer robots, says defence giant. If you didn’t already know it, you woke up today in a world where an organization called the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots really exists. While the name might conjure thoughts of tinfoil hats and secret meetings in the back... Read more
Facebook Launches Messenger For Kids
Social media giant’s Messenger Kids app allows children to chat and text. Facebook set the age limit for user accounts at 13 and older many years ago, but that doesn’t stop the more than 20 million estimated underaged users from partaking of the platform. Now, in the ultimate throw... Read more
Google’s AlphaZero AI Beats World’s Best Chess Software
AlphaZero artificial intelligence software triumphed at chess against the world’s best chess program after amassing all human knowledge of the game in just four hours. Google researchers have published a paper in which they detail how their latest AI evolution, AlphaZero, managed to display a “superhuman performance” in chess, taking just four hours to learn... Read more
Net Neutrality Protest Aims To Break The Internet
Backlash is response to proposed removal of net neutrality regulations. Just in time for the Federal Communication Commission to destroy the internet for US users, a mass protest intends to beat them to it…literally. The FCC is voting on December 14th to strip away the net neutrality regulations that were... Read more
A Day In The Life Of An Anti-Virus Threat Tracker
With all the recent cyber-attacks, from WannaCry, to NotPetya and Bad Rabbit, you were likely left wondering… What do you ACTUALLY get when you buy antivirus? And how does it work exactly? To shed some light on these questions, David Fiser, a threat lab analyst at Prague-based cyber security... Read more
Apple Agrees To Pay Ireland $15.4bn In Back Taxes 
Apple has finally agreed to start paying a €13bn ($15.4 billion) tax bill in early 2018, a full 12 months after a European Union competition court ruled that a special tax deal with Ireland had allowed Apple to pay almost zero tax on Europe wide profits between 2003 and 2014.  The irony is that Ireland has said it doesn’t want the money. The... Read more
Bitcoin Runs Out Of Steam On Steam
PC game and software platform Steam, stops accepting payments in bitcoins blaming price fluctuations and rapid volatility of transactions fees. Steam, the world’s single largest digital distribution platform for PC games and software, has announced that it is no longer accepting Bitcoin as a payment method. In a blog... Read more
Windows 10 Now Runs On 600 Million ‘Active’ Machines
Microsoft’s flagship OS is now running on more than half a billion devices that have been ‘active’ (connected to the internet at some point) in the last 28 days. Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, apparently broke the news by commenting on the 600m figure during this week’s annual shareholders meeting,... Read more
Amazon Launches In Australia
US based online retail titan has finally officially launched its first Australian operation. After a tumultuous few months of will-they/won’t-they, Amazon finally opened its virtual doors to the domestic Australian market.   While not yet as all-inclusive as its other global marketplaces, the Australian marketplace still covers most of the bases, with 23 separate categories for shoppers... Read more
Classified Pentagon Data Fully Accessible In Public Cloud
Classified data from a joint program run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the US Army has been found online and may have been accessible for years, say researchers. According to new research published by Cybersecurity firm UpGuard, around 100GB of data from a now redundant and failed... Read more
Google Faces UK Lawsuit Over Privacy
Action sought over alleged snooping on iPhone users. In the digital age, there are a few universal truths: nothing is ever deleted from the internet, and nothing is truly private. Even with the strictest security settings, every available tech tool, and the best of intentions, someone out there can... Read more
Did They Or Didn’t They? Kaspersky In The Hot Seat
Kaspersky defends its role in NSA breach, as saga continues. Protective software developer Kaspersky Lab has been under fire for allegations that they aided state-sponsored foreign hackers in infiltrating the National Security Administration. Unfortunately, while some of the information coming out seems fairly damning, it’s also far from transparent.... Read more
EV Disrupting The Trucking Industry
Tesla Semi – the electric big rig truck with a 500-mile range. While hybrid, all-electric, and even autonomous vehicles are creeping into the mainstream of the consumer-based automotive industry, there’s another vehicle space that is ready for the technology to catch up with the miles. The shipping industry, specifically... Read more
Canadian Yahoo ‘Hacker For Hire’ Pleads Guilty
Man pleads guilty to charges of data breach which affected some 500 million Yahoo! accounts. A Canadian man, US authorities have labeled a ‘Hacker for Hire,’ has pleaded guilty to charges resulting from a massive 2014 data breach at former web titan, Yahoo!  The breach which affected some 500 million... Read more