Tech firms react to netizens' digital privacy concerns
Whistleblowers and digital pioneers have long been sounding the alarm about abuses of our privacy online.
Nov 8, 2019
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Twitter offering 'topics,' from sports teams to K-pop
Twitter said Wednesday it is rolling out a feature that lets users follow topics the way they do people, starting with sports and K-pop, as part of its efforts to bring in and keep more users on the service.
Nov 6, 2019
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EU court rules sites must warn about Facebook 'like' button
Europe's top court ruled Monday that online retailers must warn web users that they send personal data to Facebook through the "like" button.
Jul 29, 2019
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FIDO, W3C show strong and simple are not opposites for user authentication
File under New and Official. After you check out this week's headlines for WebAuthn and W3C. The latter stands for Worldwide Web Consortium. The WebAuthn is now an official web standard. Backers say the specification marks ...
Security
By attacking DNS, hackers can bring down many websites for the price of one
When hugely popular websites and services such as Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal and Amazon Web Services are taken offline, it affects millions or even billions of internet users. The cyberattack that brought down these ...
Oct 25, 2016
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Researchers reveal inconsistent borders in online maps
We all look at the world subjectively, from our own point of view. Mapmakers, we assume, do the opposite: They portray the world objectively, as it actually is.
May 20, 2016
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Ransomware ported to web languages poses serious threat
Security experts around the world have been reporting that there is a new type of ransomware threat on the Internet—one that has been written using HTML, CSS and Javascript—the programming languages of web pages. The ...
