Companies are lazy and unclear sending alerts about data breaches
The notifications that companies send consumers about data breaches lack clarity and may add to customer confusion about whether their data is at risk, according to new research.
Building on...
How to reduce the chance of clicking through to a phishing link?
New research compares different kinds of warnings alerting email users to potential phishing scams.
Just when we think we have a handle on the tricks data thieves have up their...
What is Google Translatotron?
Google Translate goes a step further with 'Translatotron', a service that translates without the need for text. The translator converts your audio to another language, preserving the tone of...
China completely blocks Wikipedia
The digital encyclopaedia Wikipedia, which had already been blocked in Chinese since 2015, has also been censored by the regime for users in China and in all languages.
As of...
Cyber attack exposes data from more than 460,000 Uniqlo online customers
The data of more than 460,000 customers of the Japanese online sales platforms owning the clothing brands Uniqlo and GU could have been stolen in a recent computer attack,...
Some 24 million people use Netflix for free by sharing the account with other...
Netflix continues to grow. The platform for streaming films and series continues to add content from its own production, which in some ways has also led to an increase...
Contrary to common belief, the majority of social media challenges remain confined to online...
Among young people associated with gangs on Chicago’s South Side, online confrontations don’t typically escalate to in-person violence and can even deter it, research finds.
The menacing photos that Tevin,...
Facebook and Instagram will allow your friends to send messages to Whatsapp without having...
Until now, the applications belonging to Mark Zuckerberg's company - Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp - have worked separately. However, the executive director of Facebook has confirmed that he intends...
Nobody signed for YouTube Originals: now it will be free, but with (many) ads
YouTube Originals is the original audiovisual service of the famous video portal. Through YouTube Premium it was possible to subscribe to original and exclusive content.
And yes, you had to...
CC Search: Creative Commons’ new search engine with over 300 million images
CC Search allows you to search through 19 different collections ranging from museum cultural works, to graphics and art from sites like Behance or DeviantArt, to Flickr photos, and...
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The impact of insurance fraud in the US
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