A woman who was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for sending abusive tweets to journalist Caroline Criado-Perez has spoken of her regret over the abuse she dished out on Twitter.
Daily Archives: November 17, 2014
MasterCard promises (slow) death to online payment passwords
Credit card giant MasterCard has shared plans to do away with passwords in online payments, with an all-new authentication standard to eventually replace 3D Secure.
Spy in the sky? Flying surveillance devices are scooping up Americans’ phone data
The US Marshals Service program uses Cessna aircraft to slurp data from mobile phones in a flying range that covers most of the country’s population.
Comedy spam blunder raises a smile to start the week
We all get lots of spam. Enough, even with junk folders and spam filters, to be more than merely annoying. So here’s a spamming mistake to make you smile…
WhatsApp revenge porn poster first to be jailed for the offence in the UK
An ex-boyfriend who swapped out his WhatsApp profile picture for a naked picture of his ex-girlfriend has been sentenced to 12 weeks in jail. Lucky for him, a proposed quadrupling of that maximum sentence to 2 years is still working its way through Parliament.