What is Canada doing about the dark side of social media?
As part of their ongoing investigation into the role of social media in Canadian society, Global News is reporting on both the actions an inactions…
Tag: security
Which TLDs to scammers like most?
Palo Alto Networks has recently released a report indicating that of all of the TLDs available today, threatening actors such as phishers, scammers and hackers…
EU rule changes might unmask anonymous registrants
Online security magazine Info Security is reporting that proposed changes to domain rules in the European Union might force anonymous registrants to publish their data…
Recent Slack and Facebook outages
The Verge has broken down the widespread outages reported on Facebook, Instagram and the Facebook VR sections of their business. Facebook issued an explanation for…
Epik warned of critical vulnerability weeks before hack
In the wake of the recent hack of domain registrar and hosting company Epik, Tech Crunch is reporting that a critical flaw in its software…
“Smishing?” SMS scams on the rise
As email users become more savvy to the kinds of scams that phishers use, many scammers are turning to SMS to send fake messages intending…
Domains now part of NFT craze
The recent trend of using music, art or text as NFTs (non-fungible tokens) has extended to the world of domains. Domains are probably the most…
Internal email reveals Facebook intended to downplay data breach: report
The BBC is reporting that an internal Facebook email accidentally sent to Belgium-based Data News indicates that Facebook was planning to downplay the recent data…
Report: Facebook breach not reported to watchdog
The National Post is reporting that a recent Facebook breach was not reported to the federal privacy watchdog. Over the weekend, a cybersecurity expert revealed…
Whatsapp Lays Down The Gauntlet — Share with Facebook or Lose Access!
TrustedReviews.com is reporting that the latest Terms of Service update for Whatsapp contains a remarkable new demand — allow the app to share data with…