Parents Need to Know What’s Going On Inside Their Day Care Apps
Last year, like many new parents, I was walking the extreme tightrope of keeping my young child healthy and happy. When my […]
Tag: Security / Privacy
Brave Now Lets You Customize Search Results—for Better or Worse
Anyone can create or alter a Goggle. However, at the beta launch, Brave created eight different Goggles as examples. (It says these […]
Cops Will Be Able to Scan Your Fingerprints With a Phone
For more than 100 years, recording people’s fingerprints has involved them pressing their fingertips against a surface. Originally this involved ink but […]
Shanghai’s Censors Can’t Hide Stories of the Dead
ZHOU SHENGNI NEEDED a doctor, and fast. The 49-year-old, who was having an asthma attack, was being driven by her family to […]
The Tricky Business of Elon Musk Getting Twitter Fire-Hose Access
Elon Musk’s never-ending attempt to take over Twitter has taken yet another weird turn as the social media platform appears to have […]
How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music
“When we arrived, we were immediately pulled aside, and they went through everything in our luggage, to the point of unwrapping Tampax. […]
A Long-Awaited Defense Against Data Leaks May Have Just Arrived
“What we focus on is not how to do arithmetic operations on encrypted data, but how to find information fast—like really, really […]
Period-Tracking and Fertility Apps Can Put Women Seeking Abortions at Risk
According to Fox Cahn, apps that collect and store data on their own servers are particularly dangerous, both because the data can […]
AlphaBay Is Taking Over the Dark Web—Again
For years, dark web markets and the law enforcement agencies that combat them have been locked into a cycle of raid, rinse, […]
Google May Owe You a Chunk of $100 Million
Not to freak out anyone, but there’s a serious flaw in all supported versions of Microsoft Windows that allows attackers to take […]