Collaborate Disseminate
Everybody knows by now that websites collect information about users’ location, visited pages, and other data that can help them improve or monetize the experience. But just a small minority of Internet users realizes that browsers also collect/s… Continue reading Criminals can build Web dossiers with data collected by browsers
It has been known for a while that the overwhelming majority of Internet users doesn’t read privacy policies and terms of service before agreeing to them. Those few that do usually skim over them. That’s mostly because these documents and agreeme… Continue reading Polisis: AI-based framework for analyzing privacy policies in real time
London is just the latest city to use data gathered from mobile phones to try and understand how people use vital infrastructure Continue reading What your phone can tell city transport planners
Dataiku, a French startup that helps data analysts communicate with data scientists to build more meaningful data applications, announced a significant funding round today. The company scored a $28 million Series B investment led by Battery Ventures with help from FirstMark, Serena Capital and Alven. Today’s money brings the total raised to almost $45 million. Its most recent priot round… Read More Continue reading Dataiku to enhance data tools with $28 million investment led by Battery Ventures
We compiled the best codes, tricks, and add-ons to help you have a lot more fun with the messaging app. Continue reading Six Tricks to Get the Most Out of WhatsApp
CyberChef is a simple, intuitive web app for carrying out all manner of “cyber” operations within a web browser. These operations include simple encoding like XOR or Base64, more complex encryption like AES, DES and Blowfish, creating binary and hexdumps, compression and decompression of data, calculating hashes and checksums, IPv6 and X.509…
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Google has a new machine-learning algorithm it uses to compare new apps to known secure apps, improving the way it classifies submissions to Google Play. Continue reading Google Changes How it Analyzes Misbehaving Mobile Apps
Back in 2015, Microsoft launched a highly visual Power BI data exploration and interactive reporting tool into general availability. The service is now in active use at 200,000 different organizations and the team has shipped 400 updates and new … Continue reading Microsoft’s Power BI business analytics tool learns new tricks
A dump of over 550 million username and password combinations is currently being sold on underground forums, and eager crooks are paying for the privilege to test them out against many online services. Their hope is that some of these combinations will work and they will be able to hijack and misuse legitimate accounts. That hope is not in vain: it is a well known fact of life that too many users reuse the same … More → Continue reading Analysis of 500 million passwords shows what you should avoid
My expiration date: 84; 95 if I correct a whole lot of inaccuracies that I assume are what insurance companies are able to find on Facebook. Continue reading When are you going to die? Ubisoft tool uses Facebook data to tell you