With over 215,000 complaints last year, robocalling and telemarketing has become a massive issue for US federal regulators who now appear more determined than ever to quash the problem.
Monthly Archives: October 2015
Check your Facebook settings to make sure your posts aren’t searchable
Facebook now allows you to search others’ posts, which (of course) means they can search yours. Lock those posts down people!
The $1million Apple iTunes gift card scam
An Apple store employee in New York has been charged with using bogus credit cards to buy nearly $1 million in Apple gift cards.
How a law making car hacking illegal could make us all less safe
Security and privacy watchdogs worry that a proposed law intended to improve cybersecurity of automobiles could also make it illegal for researchers to examine code in vehicles’ computers.
DARPA sets its sights on image manipulation
DARPA wants a platform that can detect image manipulation. Think forged Iranian missile launches or uses of body parts as trays. 
Apple closes a raft of “drive-by download” holes in OS X and iOS
Drive-by downloads mean that you could get owned even when you are Just Visiting… Apple users – don’t let that happen to you!
US Navy renews training in celestial navigation over GPS hack fears
Now that the US Navy is bringing back celestial navigation, we might want to ask ourselves what other technologies we depend on without a backup, and what would happen to us if those technologies failed.
Online pharmacy fined for selling user data to lottery company and others
The ICO has fined an online pharmacy company that not only sold on user data without proper consent, it also made some astonishingly crass choices of customers to sell it to, including a lottery company.
Snapchat makes users happier than Facebook, apparently
A study suggests that it’s nice not to have Major Life Events plastered on your phone. Better to have them poof into non-archived land. 
Your face could be sucked off Facebook and on to a national biometric database
Australia’s government is happy to jump on the high-quality, highly accurate imagery captured and linked to identities on social media. 