Uber users are findiing themselves – or, rather, their accounts – magically whisked around the world to ride through the city streets of China.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
Night-vision goggles to be used to thwart pirating of new Bond film
Pirates, forget the hide-it-in-the-popcorn-box trick: staff will have gadgetry on par with what 007 would get from Q.
Change this setting to stop Siri spilling your selfies!
A Siri-ous bug affecting iOS 9 could let a crook skip your passcode, and get at your photos… …and access your contacts, and send bogus messages in your name. Here’s how to fix it.
Cyberbullying is worse than face-to-face bullying, teens say
After all, cyberbullying can happen around the clock, it’s relentless, and it’s driven by crowd behaviour.
Google’s charging for YouTube ads it knows are from bots, researchers say
Google charges advertisers for YouTube ad views in spite of correctly spotting them as being fake views generated by bots – no human eyeballs involved – a group of European researchers have claimed.
Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ appeal – France says ‘non!’
Google and other search engines could potentially face fines of up to 5% of their global operating costs if they do not comply.
Facebook: our cookies keep you safe from cyber terrorists!
Belgian data protection authority: You’re as bad as the NSA!!!
US senator blocks proposed surveillance law opposed by Facebook and Google
Lobbying pressure from an alliance of big internet companies and civil liberties groups – and the resistance of one steadfast US senator – forced the Senate Intelligence Committee to withdraw proposed legislation requiring social media companies to report “terrorist activity” to the government.
“Give us an iOS 9 zero-day and we’ll give you $1 million”
The firm willing to pay for breaking into iPhones and iPads was founded by a contractor who’s sold such bugs to spy agencies.
Apple’s App Store hit by the XCodeGhost of malware present
Until this week, the App Store was to malware what Earth was to the Hitchhiker’s Guide: “Mostly Harmless.” Not any more…