Over the past few years, there have been numerous hoaxes making the rounds online, claiming this person or that person would steal your Facebook credentials if you so much as [...]
Machine learning is used by most online companies nowadays; it’s the science that gets computers to act without being explicitly programmed to do so, it’s the [...]
Security questions and two factor authentications, sms messages and phone calls – tools of the trade when it comes about retrieving our lost passwords from online [...]
In our minds the future is either a bright cosy place full of sunshine or an oppressive regime of mad dictators with an army equipped with cutting edge technology all lined [...]
The largest network ties together more than 350,000 accounts and further work suggests others may be even bigger. UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks [...]
Hollywood’s always predicting our futures technologies in such bulky way, that it’s a miracle they don’t predict everything we have today. Dozens of movies [...]
The internet was supposed to become an overwhelming democratizing force against illiberal administrations. It didn’t. It was supposed to open repressed citizens’ [...]
The company, headquartered in London, Ontario, sells software that allows clients to monitor social media posts for keywords. Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union [...]
For millions of people, Facebook is the internet — but many of those who rely on the social network for news and views may not be aware that Facebook isn’t immune to [...]
The internet is a beautiful escape, the world’s most wide-reaching communication device, the biggest business ever conceived, and a leveler of who has the tools to [...]