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Facebook announces new tools to tackle video theft
Facebook has announced measures to tackle video piracy on its website. The company said new video matching technology would alert selected content creators if …
Study: 15% Of Wireless Users Now Tracked By Stealth Headers, Or ‘Zombie Cookies’
Earlier this year AT&T and Verizon were caught modifying wireless user traffic to inject unique identifier headers (UIDH). This allowed the carriers to ignore …
AT&T Wi-Fi hotspot caught injecting ads into web pages
AT&T, which offers public Wi-Fi hotspots across the U.S., was caught putting ads on websites in unusual places by Jonathan Mayer, a lawyer and …
Twitter blocks access to political transparency organisation Politwoops
Twitter has shut off access to 31 accounts that chronicled and archived the deleted tweets of politicians, diplomats and embassies around the world. The …
DDoS attacks double as criminals leverage home routers, WordPress plugins
The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter of this year was more than double that of last year, according to a …
New IP address blacklist based on Web chatter
Traditionally, blacklists of malicious IP addresses are assembled using honeypots and intrusion detection systems but a new approach, analyzing chatter on the dark and …
India orders clampdown on Internet porn, sparks censorship debate
India has blocked hundreds of adult websites to prevent pornography becoming a social nuisance, a government official said on Monday, sparking a debate about …
File sync services provide covert way to control hacked computers
File synchronization services, used to accommodate roaming employees inside organizations, can also be a weak point that attackers could exploit to remain undetected inside …
he NSA boosted Internet monitoring to catch hackers
The U.S. National Security Agency is reportedly intercepting Internet communications from U.S. residents without getting court-ordered warrants, in an effort to hunt down malicious …
Insecure, narcissistic people more likely to post on Facebook
People suffering from low self-esteem are more likely to post their relationship status on Facebook, a new study has found. A report from Brunel …
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