Privacy and Security
Look Who's Private Email Server-ing Now
Jared Kushner, President Donald Trumpās senior adviser and son-in-law who was inexplicably put in charge of everythingā¦
Adobe's Product Security Team Accidentally Posted Its Private PGP Encryption Key to Its Blog
The past few weeks have been a nightmare for data breaches, so good news: Hereās another easily preventable securityā¦
Reports: Latest North Korean Earthquake Was Likely Not Nuclear Test
A 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the area of Kilju in northeastern North Korea on Saturday morning, CBC reported,ā¦
Facebook Pledges to Share Russian Political Ads With Congress [Updated]
Facebook will share political ads linked to a Russian troll farm with Congress, in a reversal of its earlier claim thatā¦
Uber Is Getting A New Privacy Policy
Uber has rightfully taken heat for its past privacy overreaches: tracking riders after they get dropped off, trackingā¦
The CCleaner Attack Was Worse Than We Knew
When Avast announced that 2.27 million people had downloaded a malware-riddled copy of its performance optimizationā¦
SEC Gets Hacked, Refuses to Release Details About Just How Fucked Everything Might Be
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has disclosed that hackers accessed sensitive information from its systemsā¦
Citizen, the Creepy Crime-Fighting App Formerly Known as Vigilante, Somehow Gets $12.2 Million
Citizen, the extremely dubious rebranding of Vigilanteāan app which notifies users of 911 reports near them andā¦
Congress Wants New Rules for Online Political Advertising After Russian Facebook Ads
Democrats in the House and Senate are pushing the Federal Election Commission to develop new rules governing politicalā¦
Uber Claims Company Put Bogus Ads on Breitbart in Industry-Shaking Lawsuit
Earlier this year, hundreds of companies began to publicly flee participation in the alt-right website Breitbartāsā¦
How to Stop Pirate Bay and Other Sites From Hijacking Your CPU to Mine Cryptocoins
This past weekend, the popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay caught some flack for testing out a new system that usedā¦
Here Are The First Concrete Numbers Showing How Rarely Twitter Takes Action On Abusive Behavior Reports
Twitter has struggled to rein in harassment on its platform for years, but in January, the company pledged to finallyā¦
Viacom Leak May Have Exposed Hundreds of Digital PropertiesāParamount Pictures, Comedy Central, MTV, and More
An Amazon server containing roughly a gigabyteās worth of credentials and configuration files belonging to behemothā¦
Do These 7 Dead-Simple Safety Checks to Make Sure Your Accounts and Devices Are Safe
Itās a hostile world out there and your personal data is constantly being targeted from a whole host of angles. Whileā¦
Report: Authorities Wiretapped Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Twice
CNN has learned US authorities wiretapped Paul Manafort, the spin artist for dictators who worked a tumultuous ā¦
Equifax's Troubles Grow With News of Prior Breach, DOJ Investigation Into Stock Trades
Equifax, the credit reporting agency which recently lost said credit information on up to 143 million people toā¦
The Fight Over DRM Standards for Streaming Video Is Over and Big Business Won
A fight over the future of video streaming has been brewing for yearsāand it finally came to a head today, with a majorā¦
Why Is Someone Clogging Swiss Toilets With Tens of Thousands of Euros in Cash?
Swiss authorities are trying to crack a strange case involving the disposal of more than $100,000 worth of 500-euroā¦
The Pirate Bay Added a CPU-Hijacking Bitcoin Miner to Some Pages
File-sharing websites are not exactly known for their sterling reputation, though a few such as famed torrent site theā¦
