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At long last, the Tor Project is releasing an official web browser for Android users. The new Android app is available now as an alpha release in Google’s Play Store and on the experimental releases section of the Project’s download page. Even if you don’t use the Tor Browser to browse the web more securely…
A woman in Connecticut was severely injured earlier this week after mistaking a quarter stick of dynamite for a candlestick. Officials said the woman’s residence lost power during a storm on Thursday night, ABC 7 reported. The family wasn’t able to buy emergency lights because Home Depot was closed, but according to the officials they…
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has survived his hearings in front of Congress and mustered the courage to ban Alex Jones this week, and now it’s time to get back to business. “🎤🔉🔊,” Dorsey tweeted on Friday. Twitter’s latest feature is the option to do audio-only livestreams through its iOS app and its live video platform,…
Yesterday, Google finally sent out invites for its annual fall product event set for October 9, and even with the preponderance of leaks showing the alleged Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, the announcement instantly reinvigorated speculation about what else Google might have planned for the day. That brings us to YouTube channel Front Page…
A former NASA contractor has been arrested for allegedly hacking into several women’s Facebook and email accounts in order to obtain intimate photos, and using them as blackmail unless they provided him with additional nude photos. The man, 28-year-old Richard Gregory Bauer, was arrested on Thursday. Bauer allegedly used social engineering tactics in order to…
In a little less than a week a horde of rabid souls will cram into the Steve Jobs Theater on the Apple campus in Cupertino to watch Tim Cook and friends announce… something. As it’s September it’s safe to assume that something will include an iPhone. But what kind of iPhones and what other gadgets…
I’m tired. So very, very tired.
Chrome wasn’t the only browser to get a visual overhaul this week, because the privacy-focused Tor Browser was also given a new lick of paint, as well as a host of under-the-hood upgrades, and refinements to make it easier to use for newcomers. There are now more reasons than ever to make Tor your daily…
Adware Doctor is one of the most popular paid apps in the App Store for Macs, and it’s on sale! Unfortunately, you probably don’t want to take advantage of the bargain because new research shows it’s essentially spyware and is periodically transmitting user data to a server in China. Patrick Wardle is a respected security…
After securing votes in the California legislature last week, coauthors of the state’s comprehensive net neutrality bill gathered on Thursday in downtown Los Angeles to call on Governor Jerry Brown to back the legislation and reenact strong open internet protections for the state’s 40 million residents. Joined by a coalition of progressive activists, Senator Scott…
Based on all the recent Pixel 3 leaks, we’ve gotten a pretty clear picture of Google’s next phone. And with Apple’s big fall launch event scheduled for next week, we’ll finally have official details about the rumored iPhone Xs family as well. But today a leaked image appearing to show Nokia’s next phone hit the…
Following a quarantine at JFK airport on Wednesday that found around 100 passengers complaining that they felt ill, two flights into Philadelphia International Airport sparked an investigation by the CDC on Thursday afternoon after passengers reported experiencing flu-like symptoms. NBC Philadelphia reports that two American Airlines flights, one arriving from Paris the other from Munich,…
With all the Pixel 3 leaks making their way around the net, we’ve been wondering when Google would finally get around to announcing a date for its annual fall launch event. Well, now we know: It’s going to be on October 9 in New York City. Unfortunately, the invite Gizmodo received containing the date of…
The initially mysterious illness that prompted Emirates Airlines Flight 203 to be quarantined upon its arrival to JFK International Airport in New York Wednesday is likely just a bad case of the flu and cold, health officials said Thursday. As we shared yesterday, the 14-hour flight arrived to JFK Wednesday morning from Dubai in the…
After weeks of deplatforming efforts by social media companies, Infowars founders Alex Jones has lost his last refuge: Twitter. Twitter took the unusual step of confirming its ban of both Alex Jones and Infowars via the Twitter Safety account, citing abusive behavior. Jones’s Twitter page had accumulated nearly 900,000 followers before the suspension, while the…
British Airways revealed on Thursday that hackers managed to lurk in its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments. The company released a statement through its parent company, IAG, saying that the attack on its website (ba.com) and mobile app began late on August 21 and was interrupted on Wednesday evening. It said…
The workers of Whole Foods, the health-focused grocery chain purchased by Amazon just over one year ago, are beginning to organize. An email—first reported on this morning by the Wall Street Journal, then obtained with one redaction by New Food Economy—proposes collective action by the store’s rank-and-file employees to obtain an increased minimum wage, among…
Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it seized nine copycat websites set up to look like U.S. military recruitment pages. The websites, including Army.com and Air-Force.com, encouraged potential recruits to hand over their personal contact information. But that data was then sold to for-profit schools for their own recruitment. The FTC filed a complaint…
On Thursday, authorities executed a search warrant at the home of a New Jersey couple who raised $400,000 to help a homeless man last year. The raid comes two days after the couple’s lawyer revealed that the money is all gone despite the fact that it wasn’t properly transferred to its intended recipient. The couple…
Security experts have identified thousands of instances in which owners of 3D printers have made their devices available online and without the need for authentication. That certainly makes remote access to 3D printers convenient, but wow, what an awful idea given the tremendous potential for abuse. SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC) has issued an alert…
