Ever since Google became a part of Alphabet Inc., it has not made its own corporate policy. However, people still call the company conglomerate Google as it’s the biggest one in the group. Because of a large number of companies in...
Anyone seriously looking for online security is bound to come across a variety of providers, with all sorts of solutions to offer. They’ll come across providers who own their own network, and others who rely on third party servers to facilitate...
Is torrenting legal in USA, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, and the rest of the world? One would ask why should one torrent and risk and go through the troubles that follow? Maybe because accessing the digital world for free and...
Thanks to the ever-increasing advancements in technology, online scammers are getting craftier and more sophisticated, faster than ever before. The methods being employed to steal and manipulate users’ data continue to change by the day, and if you don’t have the...
Do individuals own their data? Do they have the right to trace, reclaim, and even perish it if they wanted to? According to courts, they do, and people managing websites, which individuals visit, have no right in claiming ownership over any...
The FIFA 2018 World Cup is just around the corner. Fans from around the globe are excited about the upcoming tournament. While some will choose to watch it online or on TV, others will travel and watch live in the stadiums....
What was supposed to be secure and private has now become exposed and public thanks to what security researchers like to call “EFAIL”. They have recently discovered vulnerabilities in PGP and S/MIME encryptions both of which are supposed to secure email...
You must have received several emails over the last few weeks from different websites, which read that they are updating their privacy policies. Companies keep updating their privacy policies every now and then, but this time, every major company is doing it...
After a software bug gripped Twitter, the social media giant has cautioned its 330+ million users to change their passwords. While research by Twitter revealed no support for the breach or misuse of unmarked passwords, the social media platform is recommending...
The United States Congress has passed a terrifying anti-privacy law that may spell doom for all of us. The CLOUD Act was passed discreetly as a part of a 2,232-page long government spending bill. Made into law without any public knowledge...
With a high number of hacking incidents, all major companies such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter now implement the two-factor authentication process in their systems. Two-factor authentication has been claimed to be a necessity when it comes to keeping password driven...
Estimates show that 1.6 million Americans were victims of smartphone theft in 2012 alone. Thieves were more active in big cities. For instance, close to 50% of the thefts reported in San Francisco were of smartphones. Smartphone theft also constituted 40%...
