A Facebook bug hunter just found a hole through which crooks could take over your personal Facebook pages. Facebook fixed it PDQ…
Daily Archives: August 27, 2015
Autoplaying video of journalists’ murders gives Facebook, Twitter users pause
Social media users unwillingly witnessed video of the murders of two television journalists yesterday, due to a default feature on Facebook and Twitter that plays videos automatically. Here’s how to turn “autoplay” off.
California pushes 350-foot no-fly drone law
Operators would need express permission to legally fly UAVs above a property’s ground level: a hurdle that could ground tech’s big plans. 
Curt Schilling suspended over tweet comparing Muslims to Nazi-era Germans
The tweet compared the percentage of Germans who were Nazis with the number of Muslims who are extremists.
Now there’s a species of crayfish named after Edward Snowden
In a research paper published this week in the journal ZooKeys, German carcinologist Christian Lukhaup revealed the name of a new species of crayfish he discovered. He called it Cherax snowden.
Should companies be held responsible for a customer data breach? [POLL]
How much of the blame should you shoulder if you could have done more to protect your network and your customers? Have your say in our poll…