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Yahoo Admits To World’s Biggest Hack affecting 1 Billion Users
BusinessNewsPrivacy and Security December 16, 2016
Yahoo has admitted that more than one billion of its user accounts may have been affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. Yahoo said the data stolen included names, phone numbers, passwords and email addresses, but crucially no credit card or bank payment details. Yahoo claims to... Read more
Consumers have all the more reason to heed the warnings about updating their antivirus and antimalware software. It’s not just that it keeps you protected from threats that weren’t discovered when you first installed your software, but as security news surrounding McAfee’s VirusScan Enterprise for Linux shows, it might... Read more
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
UK Law Makes Big Brother A Reality
NewsPrivacy and Security December 9, 2016
Until now, it was only your crazy brother-in-law who tried to convince you that the government was spying on your computer, but go ahead and grab yourself a tinfoil hat: the UK has just passed a law that gives them the authority to monitor all citizens’ internet use, including... Read more
Word From Our Editor: Privacy, Security And VPNs â What The âSnooperâs Charterâ Means For You
NewsPrivacy and Security December 8, 2016
Despite months of debate, outrage by campaigners, and a petition signed by more than 130,000 people asking the UK government to repeal it, the Investigatory Powers Bill has now received Royal Assent and is likely to become law early 2017. According to the government, the Investigatory Powers Act 2016... Read more
Scrambling Code To Defeat Hackers
NewsPrivacy and Security December 2, 2016
Don’t you just hate when a new software title comes out, and within a week some hacker has figured out where the hole in the code is? Those darn zero-day vulnerabilities! Fortunately, a new program might make weak code a thing of the past, and put a serious dent... Read more
US NAVY Sailor Data Hacked
NewsPrivacy and Security November 29, 2016
So, who would have thought there would be two stories about the US Navy in less than a week on this site? (Not me anyway!) In the same week that the US Navy has had to defend itself against claims of Piracy (Software Piracy) it is now also finding itself investigating... Read more
New Private VPN From TunnelBear
Software ReviewsVPNs November 23, 2016
Privacy is a top concern for many tech users today, and not just those with high-powered Silicon Valley careers or government positions. With news of hacking events, data breaches, and state-sanctioned surveillance cropping up every day, protecting yourself from unwanted monitoring is just smart, no matter what type of... Read more
Textalyzer Raises Digital Privacy Concerns
News November 23, 2016
No one questions the legality of banning so-called distracted driving–at least not intelligent people–but a new device that can help law enforcement crack down on offenders already has some privacy and security advocates up in arms. Called a Textalyzer, after the famously feared device known as a breathalyzer, this... Read more
Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Labs has accused Microsoft of deliberately making it difficult for independent 3rd party anti-virus companies to compete. In a blog post entitled, âEnough is Enough,â Kaspersky says that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position in the market, and is using business... Read more
412 Million AdultFriendFinder Accounts Hacked
NewsPrivacy and Security November 15, 2016
The adult dating service company Friend Finder Network has reportedly been hacked. According to the latest information available, the âworldâs largest sex & swinger communityâ experienced a breach in October. The hack has resulted in over 412 million accounts, e-mail addresses and passwords from their network of websites being... Read more
Ransomware Attacks And Our Vehicles
News October 31, 2016
A rash of ransomware attacks have left US hospitals and medical centers reeling from the aftereffects of having their networks locked and their patient information hanging in the balance. Part of the reason the facilities have suffered from data breach threats is because–quite frankly–they work. When hospitals are left... Read more
Blood Donors’ Compromised In Red Cross Breach
News October 28, 2016
With worldwide shortages of donated blood staying in a constant state of “crisis” level, the last thing the medical community needed was another reason for people to fear rolling up their sleeves. Over the years, false stories of becoming infected while donating or suffering some form of medical emergency... Read more
Consumers To Blame In DDoS Attack
News October 26, 2016
Blame is an ugly word, but sometimes the truth hurts. At least, that’s where the news and investigation into last week’s large-scale DDoS attack have been taking us. While the full blame for the attack rests squarely on the shoulders of the perpetrators, there’s another group who carries some... Read more
âŠBut since February, it has been legal⊠UK Intelligence agencies have been found to have broken privacy rules over the large scale bulk collection of its own citizens data without appropriate legal oversight, the UKâs own Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) has ruled. The IPT declared in their report that... Read more
âSecurity Fatigueâ Concerns Over Constant Hack Warnings
NewsPrivacy and Security October 7, 2016
Study warns that users are just plain old  tired of having to remember so many passwords. A new study from the North American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has discovered that a large proportion of people they interviewed were experiencing a heightened sense of security fatigue that... Read more
According to a news report from Reuters, Yahoo last year designed custom software that searched all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials. Yahoo is currently in the process of being taken over by Verizon Communications in a $4.8bn (ÂŁ3.8bn) deal. “Yahoo is... Read more