Category: Internet Safety
Facebook rolls out messenger app for kids under 13 | Reuters
Facebook Messenger Kids requires parents to set up an account and approve their children’s contacts. Source: Facebook rolls out messenger app for kids under 13…
Data vs Insight: Which Do You Want?
I have many conversations with people on a regular basis regarding the collection, processing, and dissemination of data. There are so many sources of data…
Voice Assistants and Smart Homes: Who’s watching and listening?
I have been reading articles across the Web over the last few months pertaining to connected home assistants, like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home. People…
An Instagram hack hit millions | The Verge
The Verge – Instagram Hack Article It looks like another social media platform has been hacked yet again. This time millions of phone numbers and…
How Trolls Are Ruining the Internet | Time
A Pew Research Center survey published two years ago found that 70% of 18-to-24-year-olds who use the Internet had experienced harassment, and 26% of women…
Facebook Exposes Moderator Employee Identities To Suspected Terrorists | TheGuardian
It appears that Facebook made a huge mistake introducing a bug which exposed identities of Facebook moderators to suspected terrorists. “A bug in the software,…
pfSense Emerging Threat Rule Issues
I use pfSense for my firewall at home. I log all of my events to my Splunk system, so I can visualize them and see…
IOT PWN’d | ZDNet
This article from ZDNet goes into a lot of detail surrounding events over the last couple of years where IOT devices have been used for…
Two-factor security is so broken, now hackers can drain bank accounts | ZDNet
Thank you, ZDNet, for bringing this article to my attention. It appears that this flaw has existed for some time, regardless of the fact that…
Increased Surveillance: Breeding Ground for Innovation
Newsweek tells us that the U.K. Is asking for more surveillance assistance. They want to peer into user data and to force vendors to provide…
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