The holidays in security: Breaches drive governments to bug bounties
Australia may have taken it easy for the holiday season, but hackers weren’t easing off during the festivities.
David Braue | 08 Jan | Read more
Australia may have taken it easy for the holiday season, but hackers weren’t easing off during the festivities.
David Braue | 08 Jan | Read more
Shutdown pushed forward four months to April 2019 after new leak discovered.
Security executives should build up an arsenal of use-cases and real-world examples rather than talking in vagaries when educating employees about the threats that social-media channels have opened into modern organisations, a local IT-industry channels specialist has warned.
David Braue | 10 May | Read more
If you're a heavy Google user, your Google account is kind of a big deal. It's the gatekeeper to your email, and your Google+ account, important files, online photo storage...that Google account is your life. With so much at stake, you probably want to keep hackers as far away as possible. Two-factor authentication can help.
Nick Mediati | 24 Oct | Read more
For years, Facebook users have been clamoring for better privacy controls and clarity, while Facebook engineers oscillate between improvements and major privacy snafus. Every now and then a new wave of exasperated users cry out "That's it, I'm leaving". Up to now, users really didn't have anywhere to go after quitting, so they effectively quit the social media scene, self-ostracized (MySpace is equivalent to being exiled, perhaps worse). Now that they have somewhere else to go (Google+), Facebook is ramping up its privacy controls and seems to be taking privacy more seriously. Let the privacy competition begin!
Andreas M. Antonopoulos | 08 Sep | Read more
Confession time: I'm an inveterate social media junkie. From Facebook to Instagram to Diaspora, whenever a new communication platform rolls around--or comes back around--I'm ready to leap aboard.
Alex Wawro | 22 Mar | Read more