Collaborate Disseminate
The hacker says he’s carved 2.2m passwords out of i-Dressup and could easily get at the entire database of 5.5m. Continue reading Girls’ fashion hangout site leaking millions of plaintext passwords
Was boosting a “B” up to an “A” really worth a potential jail sentence of up to 15 years? Continue reading College student arrested for allegedly hacking system to change grades
The newly renamed “Snap” is getting into the hardware (and, some say, surveillance) business by gluing a video camera onto sunglasses. Continue reading Are Snap(chat)’s Spectacles the new Google Glass?
Clamp your phone safely into a vice grip, get a 3.5mm drill, and then bore a hole into your hard drive so you can’t jump onto YouTube and tell other people “It WORKS!” Continue reading Don’t drill a headphone jack hole into your iPhone 7! It’s a hoax
Hopefully, they also feel just fine about the lessened possibility of being victimized in a malvertising campaign! Continue reading 77% of adblocker users feel guilty about it
We already decided it’s defamatory, the court said, and editorial policy doesn’t give you a right to second-guess the decision. Continue reading Yelp fights court order to remove negative review of law firm
The purported copy of the First Lady’s passport plus emails from a staffer’s account have been posted online. Continue reading Michelle Obama’s passport – or a scan that looks like it – posted online
YouTube is enlisting “Heroes” for its new program to moderate comments, flag objectionable content and make the site “better for everyone”. Continue reading YouTube is cleaning up and it wants your help!
…though at 2%, growth has slowed down from the double-digit jumps in number of data demands we’ve seen governments make in recent years. Continue reading Twitter says government requests for data still climbing
It’s the biggest known data breach in history and dwarves all previous attacks. Continue reading Change your password! Yahoo confirms data breach of 500 million accounts