Via @EmilyStewartM
If you’ve visited a new website over the past 18 months or so, you’ve probably seen it: a notification informing you the page is using cookies to track you and asking you to agree to let it happen. Wonder why?
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The odds are very good one or more of the passwords you've used at some point during your online life has been compromised.
Passwords are occasionally highjacked en masse when hackers manage to breach security systems put in place to protect online...Read more
Via @matthewhughes
MIT computer scientist Fernando “Corby” Corbató passed away at his home in Newton, Massachusetts. He was 93.
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The number of ways thieves can steal from you on the Internet is many. But one of the most insidious — albeit clever — might be a request for an urgent money transfer you receive via email that seems to come from your manager or company's finance...Read more
Via Tom Spring
Increasingly threat actors are planting bad code in open-source repositories in the hopes to harvest the flaws late.
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Via Ezequiel Bruni
People who break into other systems are nothing if not predictable. There are a number of pretty common kinds of attacks that can be prevented largely through simple forethought and planning.
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Via Christian Stewart | @stewofkc
Privacy policies protect companies legally. They tell consumers how the company collects, stores and uses their data. Unfortunately, these privacy policies aren’t negotiable — to use the service users have to agree...Read more
Via Nitasha Tiku | @nitashatiku
Users can download and review a lot of information with the Facebook "Download Your Data" tool. But it hardly tells you everything Facebook knows about you.
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Via Team Seven Boats
Your own website or blog is not out of danger. You need to boost your CMS password in ways that can resist threats and attacks. To begin with, you need to work on your passwords.
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