What a Toilet Hoax Can Tell Us About the Future of Surveillance A made-up toilet company raises legitimate questions about government data-tracking. Reuters I wasn’t actually surprised to learn that public officials in Toronto had agreed to install “smart toilets” in the city’s convention center so they could analyze public, um, data. As a privacy researcher, the idea fascinated… Read More »
Anonymous Chatting, Through a Simple Service Anonyfish was introduced in February and hosts around 600 messages each day. Secret, the popular mobile application, lets people share their deepest, darkest — and occasionally funniest — confessions anonymously, with their friends. The application lets people see other people’s ‘secrets’ and comment on them, but it doesn’t yet include a way for… Read More »
Homeland Security: Don’t use IE due to bug SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Department of Homeland security is advising Americans not to use the Internet Explorer Web browser until a fix is found for a serious security flaw that came to light over the weekend. The bug was announced on Saturday by FireEye Research Labs, an Internet security software company based… Read More »
AOL hack causes zombie spam Long discarded AOL email accounts come back from the dead — to spam you. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Whether or not you use AOL, a recently exposed mass hack of the company’s network promises trouble for everybody. AOL (AOL) users: Hackers stole “a significant number” of email addresses, passwords, contact lists, postal addresses and answers to… Read More »
Windows 9 release date, beta, preview, start menu & screenshots Windows 9 Threshold: All you need to know about the next Windows When is Windows 9 coming out and what can you expect? We take a look at the expected Windows 9 release date, leaked Windows 9 screenshots and how the Windows 9 Start Menu looks set… Read More »
AOL investigates cyber attack, says user data compromised BOSTON (Reuters) – AOL Inc on Monday urged its tens of millions of email account holders to change their passwords and security questions after a cyber attack compromised about 2 percent of its accounts. The company said it was working with federal authorities to investigate the attack, in which hackers… Read More »