Myspace is sending users one or two photos in a seemingly desperate attempt to convince people that it still exists, to intrigue former users, to embarrass them, and/or to send them hurtling back to the site on search and destroy missions.
Tag Archives: Privacy
Prankster fakes pick axe murder for Google Street View
It took over a year for somebody to complain about the image. If you’re worried that Big Brother is watching, think of it as consolation that he’s not too quick on the uptake. 
Has CryptoLocker been cracked? Is Gameover over?
Gameover, also known as Gameover Zeus, is one of the most notorious botnets of recent times. And CryptoLocker is the Big Daddy of the ransomware scene, scrambling all your data and demanding $300 to get it back. A team of global law enforcement agencies have taken them on…and YOU can help them win!
12,000 Europeans ask Google to forget them
Those are the results from just Day 1 of a web form to allow Europeans to request that outdated information about them be removed from Google’s search results. Will those numbers continue, or is there just a pent-up demand of people wanting to blip their existence off the internet? 
NSA facial recognition program scours web for images to identify suspects
The US National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting millions of images from the web and storing them in a database that can be mined by facial recognition software for identifying surveillance targets, a new report says.
Say hello to your vending machine – it might be watching you!
You walk up, ready to quench your thirst with sucrose syrup, and the beverage vending machine decides to take your photo, guess your age, discern your gender and then target-market at you.
From Cabir to Koler – 10 years of Mobile Malware
It’s 10 years since June 2004, when the first mobile malware appeared. We don’t want to *celebrate* this anniversary, you understand, but we thought we’d look back to see what we can learn…
FitzRoy, Oleg Pliss, Spotify and TrueCrypt – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Did FitzRoy get hacked? Who is Oleg Pliss? What’s up with Spotify? Where has TrueCrypt gone? 60 Second Security – 31 May 2014
Google unenthusiastically launches ‘right to be forgotten’ request form
Today, Google unenthusiastically launched a service that allows European citizens to request the removal of links that include their name and which are deemed “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive in relation to the purposes for which they were processed.” Google’s Larry Page slates the ruling as harmful to internet start ups and favourable to “oppressive governments”.
‘Half of American adults hacked’ in the past year – really?
A new study publicized this week claims that almost half of all American adults have had their personal data hacked in the past year. Headline-grabbing truth-stretching? Or have 110 million Americans really been hacked?