Internet

Facebook, Twitter, Google to Discuss Russia Election Meddling with Lawmakers

September 29, 2017

The US Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a hearing in November where Facebook, Google, and Twitter will talk about Russia and its interference with the 2016 elections. [...]

China Cracks Down on WhatsApp

September 27, 2017

When it comes to online freedom and privacy, China isn’t doing that great. Case in point, the latest move made by the Chinese government who chose to block the [...]

Facebook Fake News Problem Signaled by Obama Administration Following Trump Win

September 27, 2017

It seems that despite Mark Zuckerberg’s dismissal of Russia’s campaign of spreading fake news and other types of messages over Facebook ahead of the 2016 American [...]

Facebook Hands Over Russian Ads Used in 2016 US Election After Mueller Serves Warrant

September 17, 2017

About a week after Facebook admitted in front of the Congress that it had, indeed, sold ads to a Russian ad company pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, the company reportedly [...]

Apple Dismisses Ad Industry’s Effort to Abuse Cookies, Keeps Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Prevention Feature

September 16, 2017

In a rather funny twist, the Safari web browser is at the center of a fight between Apple and advertisers on the topic of privacy. The reason for the fight is that Safari has [...]

FireEye: Kim Jong-un Using Bitcoin to Launder Money as Sanctions Tighten on North Korea

September 14, 2017

When it comes to Bitcoin, the idea of it being used for money laundering is far from foreign. In fact, many criminals have been doing it for years. Now, it’s Kim [...]

Google Lays Out Deprecation Plan for Symantec SSL Certificates

September 12, 2017

Earlier this year, Google expressed its concern for the safety of those visiting sites that had SSL certificates from Symantec and promised to do something about it. Now, the [...]

Chrome Tests Warnings Against Extensions Trying to Take Over Internet Connections

August 20, 2017

With more and more Chrome extensions getting hijacked by various threat actors, Google has decided to add two new features to the browser in order to make it safer to use. [...]

US Govt Demands IPs of 1.3 Million Trump Protesters from Website

August 17, 2017

The US government is apparently trying to emulate Russia these days as the DOJ is asking a web hosting provider to hand out all possible details on a certain site and its [...]

The New Tech Bubble Is Initial Coin Offering

August 16, 2017

When Bancor launched its initial coin offering (ICO) on June 12, it raised a new record for such an event: 153 million USD worth of ether (Ethereum’s cryptocurrency) [...]