Cyber Security

We all live in public, at least as far as the US National Security Agency is concerned. As Internet users and global citizens become more aware of surveillance activities that the US and other countries are doing on the World Wide Web, there are those who seek to ensure that privacy and personal freedoms aren’t Continue Reading →

With the slew of improvements Microsoft is making to the new Kinect, some potential buyers have grown concerned about the device’s capabilities, particularly when it comes to how their personal information would be used. Of particular interest was whether or not the Kinect would be able to collect data for use in targeted advertizing. Thankfully, Continue Reading →

Can big email providers scan your messages in order to serve you relevant advertising? Google and Yahoo have long assumed the answer is yes, which is one of the reasons the giant companies provide free email to millions of people. Last week, however, a federal judge in California refused to throw out a class action Continue Reading →

Adobe has made the cloud an essential part of its business strategy, but on Friday it’s been dealt a major blow thanks to cyber attackers. The company has revealed that an intrusion led to an untold number of Adobe IDs and passwords falling into the hands of hackers. But it gets far worse. Adobe says Continue Reading →

No operating system launch is without a few bugs, but it seems like iOS 7 has had more than it’s fair share of blunders. From iMessages not working to lock screen exploits, here are some of the biggest bugs, and how you can fix them. iMessage Doesn’t Deliver Messages: If there’s one thing you want Continue Reading →

Evernote’s been rolling out two-step verification over the course of some months now, making the feature available to its Premium and Business users way back in late-May, a few months after having its database hacked. Now the company’s ready to offer the added security up to the rest of us, making logging in even safer Continue Reading →

When you delete files in OS X, by default the system will simply remove the file’s entry from the drive’s index, which simply allocates the space used by the file as free for other uses. However, while this logically deletes the file, on conventional hard drives the data structure of the file is still intact Continue Reading →

Yahoo revealed on Thursday that it will dole out rewards of up to $15,000 (and starting from $150) to individuals and firms that inform the company of bugs and vulnerabilities classified as new, unique and/or high-risk issues, as part of an updated vulnerability reporting policy. This is a huge change from what Yahoo has been Continue Reading →

A new update for Chrome for iOS adds iOS 7 support, but there’s also a big flaw as discovered by UK development and design firm Parallax. It turns out that when you use the search/address bar in Incognito mode in Chrome, that history will show up when you return to standard browsing in Google’s mobile Continue Reading →

In early 2011, Mozilla added a do-not-track feature in its Firefox browser that allowed users to clearly state that they didn’t want their online activities monitored by websites and advertisers. Other browser vendors soon followed suit, including Microsoft, Apple and Google, seemingly handing consumers a simple way to protect their information that would persist no Continue Reading →