Here’s how to get rid of the “Superfish” adware that was pre-installed on some Lenovo notebooks.
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Lenovo “Superfish” controversy – what you need to know
Controversy of the week is “Superfish,” an adware program pre-installed on Lenovo computers that has some worrying security problems. Here’s what you need to know, in plain English…
The Dark Web: anarchy, law, freedom and anonymity
Any notion that the Dark Web will be allowed to flourish as a vast, lawless space without a serious challenge is fantasy. The question is, what balance of surveillance and darkness are we prepared to tolerate on the web? 
Ruin privacy-invading photos with reflective glass nanosphere clothing
Wearing clothes that turn you invisible is one way to fend off unwanted photographs, but your identity’s still up for grabs in the light of day. 
Revenge-porn king Hunter Moore pleads guilty to identity theft, hacking
Congratulations to the hundreds of victims and to Charlotte Laws: the extremely tenacious mother of one victim who wouldn’t back down.
Hackers force closure of Canadian Bitcoin exchange Cavirtex
Canada’s largest Bitcoin exchange – Cavirtex – has announced its closure, saying the latest in a string of hacking attacks may have left hashed passwords and 2FA “secrets” compromised.
Forget Google Glass, here’s Sony’s (not quite as catchy) SmartEyeglass
Those aren’t augmented reality spectacles. THESE are augmented reality spectacles! But what about the privacy and security side?
FreeBSD and the YARNBUG – more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!
Breakthrough in facial recognition: the ‘Deep Dense Face Detector’
A breakthrough in facial recognition technology means that computers will soon be able to spot faces even if they’re tilted or partially blocked: a boon to cloud storage providers, social networks, surveillance and advertisers alike.
Twitter’s new tool should stop password sharing and help fend off hijackings
The new tool, TweetDeck Teams, lets users share Twitter accounts without having to share passwords.