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Yahoo Data Breach: Top 5 things you should do immediately
Yahoo’s biggest nightmare was confirmed yesterday – back in late 2014, a copy of certain user account information has been stolen from Yahoo’s network. The…
Do you stand by all your tweets?
A wise man once said: “You should never share anything on the internet unless you are ready for it to be seen by the whole…
Regain your privacy: Facebook’s new (creepy) ad system
Running a service as large as Facebook is extremely expensive. So rather than charge users like you and me a fee for accessing the social…
5 simple tricks to boost your PC security
Because we rely on technology to manage every detail of our lives, devices are a natural target for criminals. Why steal your wallet when they…
Watch out for Chrome and Firefox web extensions that access browser history and rob passwords
Malicious extensions can save and modify permissions, gain access to your browser history, and modify the pages you visit or save the passwords you use.
Your fingerprint could be copied and used to unblock your iPhone (but it’s not a bad thing!)
A high quality photograph is sufficient enough to reproduce a fingerprint, using various techniques, molding different materials, which could even be used later to impersonate the person. But this is not always a negative thing. Learn more!
Before long you’ll see HTTPS on every website
The HTTPS landscape is changing. Now, tech giants, like Google and Mozilla, have decided that each and every website must adopt this security protocol. But this isn’t always a good thing.