The UK broadband and telecom provider TalkTalk has announced a major data breach potentially affecting more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said there is “a chance” customer data lost in the breach includes vital personally identifiable information: names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, TalkTalk account details and payment card information. The company is...

Every day, federal regulators across the US receive hundreds of complaints about unwanted telemarketing and robocalls and, so far, there appears to have been very little that could be done to stem that tide of nuisance telephony that blights landlines and mobile phones alike. While hefty sanctions may have hit the headlines, and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) competitions...

Back in December last year, Facebook introduced keyword searching on your or your friends’ past posts. So if you wanted to quickly find your wedding photo album, or a recipe your friend posted for chocolate chip cookies, then there was no more trawling through months and years of posts to find it. You could also...

An Apple store employee in New York has been charged with using bogus credit cards to buy nearly $1 million worth of Apple gift cards. According to a news release put out on Tuesday by Queens County District Attorney Richard A. Brown, the 24-year-old man from Queens was charged with grand larceny for allegedly re-encoding credit...

Two troublesome words tucked into proposed US legislation related to cybersecurity for cars and trucks could have some unintended consequences for vehicle security if it ever becomes the law of the land. Car hacking has attracted increased scrutiny from lawmakers in recent months, after researchers disclosed security vulnerabilities in several Fiat Chrysler models, causing the car maker...

Thank goodness TMZ revealed that the Hollywood Life UNTOUCHED AND PRE-PHOTOSHOP images of Kim Kardashian’s butt-baring photo from Paper magazine last year were fake. Otherwise, how would we possibly have been able to tell, simply by looking at images like this, this, or this, that the image had been manipulated? (Note: A spokesperson for Paper...

If you’re one of those people who waits for the first update to an update before you install it… …and you’re also an OS X or an iOS user, then your number’s just been called. In a flurry of Security Advisories published this week [2015-10-21] by Apple, the following security-oriented updates were announced: OS X...

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK is a public service body set up with excellent aims. As the organisation’s website explains, its remit is: To uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals. It’s not an irony that openness and privacy go together: if...

We already know that Facebook’s facial recognition technology – called “DeepFace” – rivals humans’ ability to recognize people, regardless of lighting changes and camera angles. It doesn’t hurt that Facebook photos are higher-quality than the grainy images that cops can pull from CCTV footage and other sources. As it turns out, Australia’s law enforcement agencies are more...