Mozilla has announced a new Firefox protection feature to stymie a new user tracking technique lately employed by online advertisers: redirect tracking. How does redirect tracking work? Online advertisers, web analytics companies and browser makers are…
Telstra’s DNS default setting was out of reach as the telco was facing a Distributed Denial Service (DDoS) attack. As a result, customers using the Telstra DNS default setting were not able to access the internet yesterday. According to Telstra, some …
When you are working on something and putting all your “sweat and blood”, suddenly you hear a beep sound coming all the way through some app or website. This is enough to distract you! There’s a growing concern among many who find web notifications to …
Bishop from Togo among 1,400 individuals alerted by WhatsApp to malware attackA prominent Catholic bishop and a priest in Togo have been told they were targeted by spyware made by the private surveillance firm NSO Group, in the first known case of its …
Microsoft announced Sunday it would continue talks to acquire the US operations of popular video-sharing app TikTok, after meeting with President Donald Trump who seemingly backed off his earlier threats to ban the Chinese-owned platform.
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As a software company founder, I spent the majority of 2017 collecting feedback from teens, pediatricians, church leaders, and school administrators of the trends they are seeing in the United States related to sexting and sextortion. Bark Technologies…
The Trump administration’s move to ban the popular app over cyber security concerns has since raised the same question for their neighbours north of the border.
Around two weeks ago, Twitter experienced what is likely the worst hack in its history. Countless high-profile accounts were hacked, including Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Joe Biden, Kanye West, YouTuber MrBeast, and many others. The point…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Amazon has said the number of demands for user data made by U.S. federal and local law enforcement have increased more during the first half of 2020 than during the same period a year earlier. The di…