First, it should be noted that the customer passwords at Comcast that were placed for sale did not result from a data breach into Comcast’s networks. It was the product of recklessness on the part of users who gave up their passwords to hackers through some deceptive means.
New ransomware locks out website owners
The modern day technology landscape where various advanced and persistent threats abound calls for robust security tools, one which being encryption. But what will you do when the same security is used to your disadvantage?
To protect your data from US government spies, Microsoft hosts data in Germany
Amid the United States government’s effort to gain backdoor access to encrypted data of American citizens, Microsoft has moved to help beef up the security and privacy of at least its European customers and users by moving its data center service to Germany, where the government gives importance to data privacy.
See how you can manage your privacy online with Google’s About Me
In an effort to help its more than a billion users to manage their privacy while online, Google has just rolled out a new tool dubbed About Me, which allows users to control what information about them will appear in any of Google’s services.
Facebook Video’s “8 billion daily views” means nothing
Compared to YouTube and Snapchat’s video services, Facebook Video seems to be gaining more traction since its first release. But that can only make sense if the views Facebook is boasting about registered at least 30 seconds per user. The fact is, majority of the video views only count three seconds on an average per […]
BlackBerry Priv is not so private
As indicated by its unequivocal name, the BlackBerry Priv flagship is supposed to be centered on privacy. It turns out, based on reliable customer feedback, the mobile device lacks concern for the privacy of its users.
