Cory Doctorow doesn’t like censorship. He especially doesn’t like his own work being censored. Anyone who knows Doctorow knows his popular tech and culture blog Boing Boing, and anyone who reads Boing Boing knows Doctorow and his cohort of bloggers. The part-blogger, part special advisor at the online rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, has written […]
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A simple bug makes it easy to spoof Google search results into spreading misinformation
A bug that anyone can easily exploit in Google makes it easy to kick out manipulated search results that look entirely real. The search manipulation bug was documented by Wietze Beukema, a London-based security specialist, who warned that a malicious user could use this bug to generate misinformation. This is done by splicing together values […]
View More A simple bug makes it easy to spoof Google search results into spreading misinformationA simple bug makes it easy to spoof Google search results into spreading misinformation
A bug that anyone can easily exploit in Google makes it easy to kick out manipulated search results that look entirely real. The search manipulation bug was documented by Wietze Beukema, a London-based security specialist, who warned that a malicious user could use this bug to generate misinformation. This is done by splicing together values […]
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View More Need to fix your slow WiFi? Grab a Linksys router on sale for $112 off on Amazon.How to browse the web securely and privately
So you want to browse the web securely and privately? Here’s a hard truth: it’s almost impossible. It’s not just your internet provider that knows which sites you visit, it’s also the government — and other governments! And when it’s not them, it’s social media sites, ad networks or apps tracking you across the web […]
View More How to browse the web securely and privatelyFood delivery startup Swiggy raises $1 billion more from Naspers, Tencent and others
Naspers, the South African investment giant, is back at it again in India! Days after backing educational startup Byju’s by leading a $540 million investment, it has led a $1 billion investment in food delivery company Swiggy. The new round sees Chinese internet and Naspers ally Tencent join the party, alongside fellow new investors Hillhouse Capital […]
View More Food delivery startup Swiggy raises $1 billion more from Naspers, Tencent and othersThe most common forms of censorship the public doesn’t know about
Amid all the discussion today about online threats, from censorship to surveillance to cyberwar, we often spend more time on the symptoms than on the underlying chronic conditions.
View More The most common forms of censorship the public doesn’t know aboutScammers are sending bomb scares to nab BTC
A new scam is making the rounds that promises to disrupt countless offices and schools. The scam is simple: the scammers send an email threatening to detonate a bomb if they don’t get a certain amount of Bitcoin within a specified time frame. Because there is little upside to ignoring a bomb threat at this […]
View More Scammers are sending bomb scares to nab BTCJioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple Music
India finally has its answer to Spotify after Reliance Jio merged its music service with Saavn, the startup it acquired earlier this year. The deal itself isn’t new — it was announced back in March — but it has reached its logical conclusion after two apps were merged to create a single entity, JioSaavn, which is […]
View More JioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple MusicMarriott’s poor data breach response is putting victims at risk of phishing
Last Thursday, Marriott sent out millions of emails warning of a massive data breach — some 500 million guest reservations had been stolen from its Starwood database. One problem: the email sender’s domain didn’t look like it came from Marriott at all. Marriott sent its notification email from “email-marriott.com,” which is registered to a third […]
View More Marriott’s poor data breach response is putting victims at risk of phishingSnapchat now has cat lenses. (Yes, for your cat.)
It’s 8:00 PM on Friday night and you’re home alone and already drunk. Oh, is that just me? Well no matter. Snapchat has made lenses for your cat now. Yes, that’s right. Your cat! This is what the internet is made for, friends. Not all that fake news and trolling. Not having to read tweets […]
View More Snapchat now has cat lenses. (Yes, for your cat.)MindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers without passwords
FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records because it left several of its servers without a password. The company builds fitness tracking software for gyms and group classes — like CrossFit and SoulCycle — that displays heart rate and other fitness metric […]
View More MindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers without passwords