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Why You Should Care About CISPA 9 May 2012 | 08:46 pm
CISPA is the latest in controversial bills affecting everyday average Joes. CISPA – Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act – will allow private firms to send forth data on cyber threats to gove...
SpywareBlaster 11 Mar 2012 | 03:50 pm
Spyware, adware, browser hijackers, and dialers are some of the most annoying and pervasive threats on the Internet today. By simply browsing a web page, you could find your computer to be the brand-n...
Malwarebytes 11 Mar 2012 | 03:47 pm
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an easy-to-use anti-malware application available in both a Free and PRO version. With over 100 million downloads, the Free version is well-known for its detection and rem...
Spam: An Endangered Species? 15 Dec 2011 | 08:57 am
With an 82% decline in the past year, it seems the reign of spam may be at an end—or at least a pause. Or that it may be ‘ending’ or ‘on its way out.’ Or in a lull of some kind. Spam originated on a ...
New Facebook: how to take control of your privacy 29 Sep 2011 | 10:43 pm
Facebook took a huge step toward ubiquitous sharing with its new timeline and sharing features. And it rightfully creeps some people out. Not everybody wants to share their life story on their profil...
Mozilla gets tough after digital certificates hack 10 Sep 2011 | 05:42 am
Firefox browser distributor Mozilla today gave companies that sell digital certificates a week to take actions to improve their security after a certificate authority (CA) was hacked and Gmail users i...
McAfee says Android plagued by the most malware 29 Aug 2011 | 07:38 am
While the momentum of Google’s Android platform has drawn new partners and customers, it has also attracted new threats. Security software provider McAfee said today that the amount of malware, or ma...
Site ranks hackers 29 Aug 2011 | 07:36 am
An online service has cropped up in the past month that enables people to earn points by hacking Web sites. Dubbed Rank My Hack, the hacker community site assigns point values to hacks. “Welcome to R...
Facial Recognition in iPhone 5 – privacy concerns 19 Aug 2011 | 06:50 am
Currently there has been a fair bit of discussion on privacy concerns surrounding the implementation of facial recognition software to several apps. The technology is already available and if used in ...
Mobile phones, privacy, and user consent – Apple, google, facebook 17 Jul 2011 | 06:56 pm
Apple and Google returned to Capitol Hill this morning to defend themselves against accusations from U.S. politicians who claim that the companies aren’t doing enough to protect their customers’ locat...
