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How location data is used to manipulate airfare and car rental prices

While the EU recently passed the GDPR into law to give users control of how their data is collected and used, the battle is unfortunately only half won. According to a new (and shocking!) study by TheBestVPN, you could end up paying almost double (or more) the actual cost of a product or service you are interested in depending on where you are accessing the website offering the product from. дальше »

2018-7-18 23:13


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Chinese authorities are sampling sewage to flush out drug users

The Chinese government is analyzing urine and feces from sewage as part of a sweeping national crackdown on illegal drug use. China isn’t the first country to sift through sewage in order to collect data on illegal drug use, but as far as we know it’s the first to implement the technique in actual law enforcement situations — a move which prompts a litany of privacy and citizen safety concerns. дальше »

2018-7-16 21:10


Cyber criminals are now stealing directly from cryptocurrency users

Hackers are now targeting cryptocurrency investors directly, after the exchanges increased their security measures, as they see the users as softer targets. HypnoArt / Pixabay See below fro a comment from Ilia Kolochenko, CEO and founder of web security company High-Tech Bridge on this topic: “There is nothing substantially new or unexpected in the skyrocketing […] дальше »

2018-7-14 03:12


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Yes, you’re losing Twitter followers. No, it’s not because you’re an asshole (probably).

Twitter today announced it’d be removing locked accounts from users’ follower counts.  If you’ve noticed a precipitous drop in follower counts today, it’s not you — it’s your followers. Reports surfaced earlier this week that Twitter had suspended a multitude of fake accounts in the months of May and June — apparently in an attempt to curb the rise of bot and their accompanying cocktail of issues. дальше »

2018-7-12 02:47


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Bethesda exec says he’ll stop selling Skyrim ports when we stop buying them

Well, it seems the person behind the perpetually re-released Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has my number.  In an interview with GamesIndustry, Bethesda top dog Todd Howard addressed the common complaint that the company is perhaps a little eager to re-release Skyrim, and I have to admit the point is a good one: Even now, the amount of people who play Skyrim seven years later; millions of people every month are playing that game. дальше »

2018-7-12 00:24


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Report Finds That URL Shorteners May Be Enabling Crypto Jacking

A new report has found that URL shorteners could be being used to enable malicious cryptocurrency mining. If you don’t know what a URL shortener is, then you’re probably not at risk of this, however just for clarity; a URL shortener is a website that allows you to shorten a URL, this is useful for social media and emails for example. дальше »

2018-7-4 15:30


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Popular Plugin Is About To Expose A lot Of Users To The Benefits Of Blockchain

With over 500 Million users, Adblock Plus could be considered a very popular plug-in/web browser extension. If you’re not aware of it, Adblock Plus is a piece of advert-blocking software that uses its inbuilt technology to block adverts within various different web browsers, from Safari to Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to name but a few. дальше »

2018-6-14 15:30


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