Privacy

One only has to think of the PRISM fiasco to realise the importance of VPNs. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. Think of it as a mask that your connection to the internet wears – it hides your activity like a real private network would without actually connecting to one. It keeps your internet activity safe from the websites you ...

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of 3M for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Data breaches present huge costs to organizations and small businesses alike. Furthermore, they are considered the most common type of security failures at the workplace. Even we speak, studies have it that companies are attacked at an average of 16, 856 ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unearthed an alarmingly violating problem with the latest Android Phones (3.1 and above). Users choose to share their locations via Facebook, Twitter and other networks frequently but their android phones’ releasing that information without their permission is considered to be a serious violation of privacy indeed. EFF found that information about the location of ...

The rise of the internet has meant big changes for modern businesses, offering them convenient communication, rapid information access and mass data storage at their fingertips. However while these benefits are incredibly advantageous, they are not without risk. The threat of unauthorised access is one of the major challenges of taking a business into the digital sphere, and can have ...

This coming Thursday, 50 million people could lose personal data, according to recent progressions in the federal case against file storage site Megaupload.

Hackers have found a new way to get malicious software onto your home computer -- through your kids' computer games.

It looks like we'll be getting a chance to witness history -- on January 18th, Wikipedia has announced that it's going to "black out" its US site for 24 hours.

A group of researchers at Columbia University has made a surprising discovery -- apparently, some HP LaserJet printers are wide open to exploits from hackers.

A company called "Intelligent Fingerprinting" has developed a prototype of a drug-scanning device that only needs a person's fingerprint to scan for illegal substances.

The information that was compromised in this hack could include mailing addresses, passwords, email addresses, encrypted credit card numbers and game purchase history, though nothing has been confirmed yet.