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Late last year saw the re-emergence of a nasty phishing tactic that allows the attacker to gain full access to a user’s data stored in the cloud without actually stealing the account password. The phishing lure starts with a link that leads…

Google's password checking feature has slowly been spreading across the Google ecosystem this past year. It started as the "Password Checkup" extension for desktop versions of Chrome, which would audit individual passwords when you entered…

The FBI said FaceApp and other mobile applications developed in Russia pose a "potential counterintelligence threat". The comments were made in a letter to US Senator Chuck Schumer after he called for an investigation into the app. The…

Facebook has created a chatbot to help its own employees answer tricky questions from friends and family over the holiday season. The Liam bot answers queries about how the social network handles hate speech and disinformation and can even…

Last September, we announced a series of changes to better protect kids and their privacy on YouTube and to address concerns raised by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Specifically, that all creators will be required to designate…

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Stephen Brashear/Getty Images Topline: Microsoft is now the most popular cloud services supplier and is steadily gaining market share against major competitors like Amazon, according to a new survey…

My first job was for a financial news website, but in my own time, I set up a satirical internet magazine, Global Village Idiot, and then I launched my first blog, Politics of Well-Being, in 2008. I’ve been blogging for 11 years, and…

Smartphones are getting a bum rap. The common perception that as people become increasingly attached to their devices they are becoming less social is just wrong, according to Stanford communication scholar Gabriella Harari. In fact,…

The news: Video platform TikTok has published a set of new, more detailed guidelines governing which videos will be deleted from the app. It says it will take down videos promoting terrorism, crime, violence, hate speech, or self-harm, for…

In a move that has become the top talking point of CES and a flash point for an industry's pent-up frustrations, smart audio company Sonos has sued Google for infringement of five of its patents, The New York Times reports. The publicly…

Amazon-owned home security camera company Ring has fired employees for improperly accessing Ring users' video data, according to a letter the company wrote to Senators and obtained by Motherboard. The news highlights a risk across many…

A Chrome extension named “Shitcoin Wallet”, has been caught stealing passwords and private keys from cryptocurrency wallets. The recently launched extension claims to let users manage Ether and Ethereum coins, however it contains malicious…

Akio Toyoda, president of Toyota Motor Corporation, speaks at a news conference, where he announced Toyota's plans to build a prototype city of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan, during the 2020 CES in Las…

A data breach incurs serious consequences no matter whether a company is big or small. Staff get fired, executives issue apologies, and entire systems are overhauled to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. They instill doubt in consumers,…

Hackers are holding foreign exchange company Travelex to ransom after a cyber-attack forced the firm to turn off all computer systems and resort to using pen and paper across its thousands of sites. On New Year's Eve, hackers launched…

Facebook is tightening its policies on "manipulated media," including deepfakes, Monika Bickert, the company's vice president of global policy management, says in a blog post. Why it matters: Facebook has been criticized for the way it…

If you've been rejected from booking an Airbnb rental, it may be because the app's artificial intelligence determined that you're a psychopath. Airbnb owns the rights to software that's designed to scan people's online presence to predict…

Some things were made to last forever. Software is not one of them. Indeed, software is more like food — it goes out of date. It might be fine for a little bit after its sell-by date, but then it festers, it gets mouldy. And the longer…

A team of European law-enforcement officials was hot on the trail of a potential terror plot in October, fearing an attack during Christmas season, when their keyhole into a suspect’s phone went dark. WhatsApp, Facebook Inc. ’s popular…

After a ransomware attack, winter break at Richmond Community Schools in Michigan was extended through the end of the week as district personal work to remedy the issue and bring all services back online, officials announced Thursday. The…

I don't think there is a magic bullet - and yes I have completely considered adding parental controls. I think there's probably two prongs of attack. Helping them manage their IT and Scam prevention. Scam prevention covers cold calls "from…

Life is full of interruptions and distractions. Like getting robocalls during dinner or any meal time. It’s inevitable that when you’re trying to get things done, something else demands your attention. You shouldn’t have to deal with that…

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I am really at a loss right now. I worked for a startup for two years and put my heart and soul into helping build the company as a senior manager. I ended up quiting about 2 months ago to focus on relaxing during the holidays and spending…

Some forms of text-based steganography don’t even use alphanumeric characters or symbols at all. Alan Woodward, a security expert at the University of Surrey, notes the example of ‘Snow’ – Steganographic Nature Of Whitespace – which…

Severed fibre optic cables disrupted internet access in parts of eastern Europe, Iran and Turkey last week. The issue, which lasted for about two hours, was caused by multiple fibre cables being physically cut at the same time, a highly…

YouTube has premiered a Robert Downey Jr-fronted series that seeks to demystify artificial intelligence. The documentary - produced by the actor in partnership with his wife Susan - is one of the platform's highest profile and…

It is this era of tremendous competition; enterprises use all methods within their power to get ahead. For businesses, the unique tool to achieve this supremacy is Web scraping. But this too isn’t a field without hurdles. Websites employ…

Google and Apple have removed an Emirati messaging app called ToTok amid claims that it is used for state spying. Not to be confused with China's TikTok, ToTok markets itself as an easy and secure way to chat by video or text. However,…

As protests over a controversial citizenship law rage across India, authorities resorted to shutting down the internet in cities where demonstrators flooded the streets. It was one more episode of a shutdown in a country which has seen the…