Isis mocked with rubber ducks as internet fights terror with humour
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, could it in fact be an Islamic State militant? …
Saudis to sue Twitter user who called poet’s death sentence ‘ISIS-like’
Saudi Arabia’s justice ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who compared the death sentence handed down on Friday to a Palestinian poet to …
Spotify cleans up privacy mess with plain language policy update
“What do you mean?” has been a big theme around Spotify in recent weeks. Justin Bieber’s tune of the same name just had the …
Man Arrested for Mocking Mayor on Twitter Wins Big in Civil Suit
An Illinois man who was raided and arrested last year for creating a parody account of his town’s mayor on Twitter has won $125,000 …
Spotify CEO hints why the music service’s privacy policy gets all up in your business
Like nearly every other company on the Internet, Spotify recently changed its privacy policy to gather all kinds of data about you—with your permission. …
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 …
Crooks exploit public bug to plant adware on Yosemite Macs
A vulnerability in OS X Yosemite that went public last month is being used by cyber criminals to plant adware on Macs, a security …
Hacker steals login credentials of Bitdefender business users, attempts blackmail
A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business …
Police criticised over spy-cam tweet of comedian Michael McIntyre in street
Police have defended a picture tweeted by a helicopter team that shows the comedian Michael McIntyre standing in a London street. The photo, posted …
Famed Security Researcher Mudge Leaves Google
Peiter Zatko, a respected computer security researcher better known by the nickname Mudge, says he’s leaving his job at Google to explore ways to …
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