Today, everyone is aware that Facebook, Google and Twitter, among many other free digital services sell their users’ personal data to advertisers. Many savvy users are protecting their privacy with additional software plugins to prevent this automatic data collection. Behind the scenes, however, is the real Read >
Electric vehicles are becoming mass market products in many categories during the next few years. Volkswagen is planning to manufacture millions of electric cars, pickup trucks like Rivian are powered by batteries, and European and Japanese van manufacturers have electric vans Read >
Frank Abagnale, whose successful career as a scammer was depicted in a movie Catch Me If You Can has some solid advice for all of us who like to share information about our lives on social media. The first point Abagnale Read >
The annual hyperactive shopping season starts from Black Friday in late November and will continue to early January. News of hacked online stores that leak customers’ credit card and personal data to criminals are not welcomed by e-commerce merchants just now. Read >
Ransomware is a relatively new type of online crime where criminals remotely hijack a computer, and demand ransom to return the computer to the owner. The scheme usually works so that criminals, located wherever they have internet access, manage to install Read >
LastPass is an online service that manages your passwords so that you can use a different password for each account you need on the internet. The parent company of LastPass, LogMeIn, has published Global Password Security Report that analyses the state Read >
WordPress is the world’s most popular software for building web sites and for publishing on the internet. This fact makes it the number one target for hackers. Every self-hosted WordPress admin, even if only running a simple blog, should take security Read >
A number of governments in Europe have made a significant, long-term decision to move away from cloud services that may risk citizens’ privacy and security. Germany, France, Netherlands and Sweden have announced that the first steps have been taken to Read >
I have written about apps and services that let you do exactly the same things as services provided by Google, but with one key difference: those tools don’t spy on you like Google does. It is possible to find a good Read >
If an institution where you study, or a school where your children study has adopted Office 365 cloud services, their private data is collected by Microsoft. Due to privacy concerns, a German state has banned the use of Office 365 at Read >
