Facebook Likes: Digital records expose intimate details and personality traits of millions
Mar. 14, 2013 (TSR) - Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this...
Facebook Got Hacked Last Month and Is Just Telling You Now
February 17, 2013 (TSR) - Facebook just announced that it was hacked last month in a short statement on its website. Apparently, an unknown number employees visited a compromised...
Nowhere to hide: New Facebook app to track offline users
Feb. 7, 2013 (TSR) - Those concerned about Facebook’s controversial privacy policies may have yet another reason to worry. The social network is reportedly developing a smartphone application which...
Facebook to charge $1 for each message delivery to strangers
December 21, 2012 (TSR) - Facebook announced Thursday it was testing a fee-based messaging service that guarantees messages from strangers will arrive in the inboxes of intended recipients.
The test,...
Google Hid $10 billion in Bermuda to Dodge $2 Billion in Taxes
December 12, 2012 (TSR) - Google reportedly avoided another $2 billion in taxes thanks to outsourced banking, which has already dubbed "immoral" and an "embarrassment" in media as austerity budgets...
Facebook game change: Users won’t have a say in future policy updates
December 8, 2012 (TSR) - Here’s a post worth sharing: Unless 300 million Facebook users speak up before Monday, the social networking site says they will exclude the public...
Google and other online maps say yes, but Scientists fail to find mysterious Pacific...
November 23, 2012 (TSR) - A largish Pacific island that appears on Google and iOS Maps, Bing and other online services has been declared not to exist by team...
US likely to pursue antitrust case against Google: report
by Patricio Robles
October 16, 2012 (TSR) - In 1998, the United States Department of Justice and 20 states filed a lawsuit against Microsoft alleging that the software giant abused...
CyberCrime Warning: Malicious Highly Sophisticated DDoS Attacks Escalating
October 2, 2012 (TSR) - Prolexic Technologies, a Hollywood, Fla.-based cybersecurity firm specializing in distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection services, today warned of an escalating threat from unusually...
‘Halal Internet’: Iran Blocks Google over American anti-Islam film
September 25, 2012 (TSR) - Iran blocked access to Google's and Gmail service on Monday in response to Google's refusal to block access to an American anti-Islam film, Innocence...
Facebook suspends photo tag tool in Europe per Irish law
September 23, 2012 (TSR) - Facebook has suspended the facial-recognition tool that suggests when registered users could be tagged in photographs uploaded to its website.
The move follows a review...
Anonymous GoDaddy Attack is False Flag to Justify Obama’s Cybersecurity Exec Order
by Susanne Posel
September 14, 2012 (TSR) - Earlier this week, the CIA-sponsored hacker group called Anonymous claimed responsibility for the taking down of hosting provider GoDaddy...