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Amazon has grown to be one of the world’s largest retailers and most recognized brand logos, which is reason enough for scammers to attempt to use the company for phishing emails. Joining the ranks of long-time co-victim sites like PayPal and Visa, Amazon has recently been the reported association... Read more
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and You Tube have jointly teamed up to try and prevent the spread of extremist and terrorist content through their sites. Extremist and violent content shared on social media will be digitally fingerprinted by the four tech giants to try and prevent it going viral. The... Read more
Google has taken action to alter some autocomplete suggestions in its search engine after it was alerted to anti-Semitic, sexist and racists entries by UK newspaper, The Observer. The autocomplete suggestion that was the focus in this case was âAre JewsâŠ.â The Google algorithmâs first result was, up until a... Read more
Both proponents and critics of internet of things (IoT) connected devices have long questioned their security, at least from a hacking standpoint. From Nest thermostats that were intentionally hacked to prove a point to the potential for insulin pumps and glucose meters to be manipulated with life-threatening consequences, there... Read more
Hundreds of thousands of Deutsche Telekom customers in Germany had their broadband service cut off, or severely slowed, on Sunday following a Mirai-bot hack-attack on its hardware. As Sunday turned into Monday, the scale of the widespread attack on the maintenance interfaces of certain types broadband routers owned by Deutsche... Read more
Mozilla Launches Private Browser For iOS: Firefox Focus
InternetNewsSoftware Reviews November 22, 2016
Mozilla has announced the launch of Firefox Focus â promising free, fast and easy to use private browsing for iOS devices. Firefox Focus is for the times when you donât want to leave a record on your phone⊠You know, for information that in certain situations is sensitive, such... Read more
The official Canadian website for ‘Citizenship and Immigration Canada’ has stopped working. Speculation across the internet seems to point to the sheer number of people from the USA investigating the idea of moving to their northern neighbourâs country. Data from Google seems to indicate that searches for âmove to... Read more
According to data released by StatCounter for October, mobile devices were used more often for web browsing than traditional desktop machines. The figures show that combined mobile and tablet devices accounted for 51.3 percent of worldwide web use compared to 48.7 percent via desktop. OK, so thereâs only a... Read more
The Ecuadorian government has confirmed that it has “temporarily restricted” WikiLeaks founder Julian Assangeâs access to the internet at its embassy in London. On Tuesday Ecuadorâs foreign ministry released an official communique stating that the country “exercised its rightâŠâŠtemporarily restrict access to someâŠprivate communications network within its Embassy in... Read more
In a sign of just how far and how integrated the on-line gaming community has become, the funeral of a 24-year-old professional has been streamed live on video gaming platform Twitch. Philip âPhizzurpâ Klemenov, a well-known pro gamer and live streamer had his life tragically cut short when he was involved... Read more
Source code that was used to mount one of the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks ever seen has been released into the wilds of the internet prompting massive fears that widespread DDoS attacks will become everyday occurrences around the globe. The Mirai malware botnet, was used to... Read more
Anyone using Google today will probably have noticed that the new balloon themed doodle as the company officially marks its 18th birthday. The doodle depicts Googleâs âGâ blowing up a balloon, shaping the rest of the âoogle,â but then blowing it up too much and then being carried off... Read more
Researchers at Nokia have managed to successfully reach stable internet speeds of up to one terabit per second by using a new transmission technique for data. In real terms that makes the Nokia effort about one thousand time faster than Googleâs own fiber broadband, currently rated for a maximum... Read more
Pornhub.com and Youporn.com, two of the worldâs largest adult websites in the world are to be blocked by the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media, (Roskomnadzor). All Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Russia have until Tuesday to comply with the new ruling. The... Read more
A security expert has warned that a group of hackers is attempting to see if itâs possible to bring down the internet completely. According to Bruce Schneier writing in a blog post, hacker collectives, most likely to have been sanctioned by either China or Russia, is testing the defences... Read more
Free WIFI for everyone was just one of the major proposals from the European Commission annual State of the European Union address on Wednesday made by President Jean-Claude Juncker. The idea is to try and ensure that free Wi-Fi European Commission will be available across all public spaces throughout... Read more
If you’ve paused to read this article, you’re probably already “in the know” when it comes to the distinction between HTTP and HTTPS. Ideally, you look for the tiny but crucial difference in the designation before doing anything profound, like filling in an online form or handing over your... Read more
The EU may be considering slashing the regulations that Internet Service Providers have to abide by in order to increase the roll out of fibre optic networks across Europe. At present, any company that installs fixed line fibre broadband infrastructure is legally obliged to grant access to other broadband... Read more