Earlier this month a digital black market called Silk Road was raided and the person behind the operation was arrested. Along with his arrest, federal authorities seized $3.6 million worth of Bitcoins. The website is hosted on Tor and representatives of the secure system stepped forward to say that Silk Road was taken down using […]
Does your doorbell need WiFi? DoorBot thinks it does, and the company crowdfunded its way to production having convinced enough backers that $199 wireless video-streaming door furniture with a companion iOS app was an essential part of the smart home. Now, with the first units shipping out, we caught up with DoorBot to try out […]
As popularity among younger users slides for the social network, Facebook has made some changes specifically for its 13 to 17-year-old users in an effort to be more enticing. Starting today, minors will now have the ability to set posts to public, making them visible to anyone who takes a gander at their profile, as […]
Snapchat’s premise is that it deletes snaps, something that has been foiled in various ways since the service found itself thrust into the popularity spotlight. Still, the notion that snaps are deleted might give users a wrong impression of their data’s security and level of privacy, something the company recently covered in a blog post. […]
The CAPTCHA is a wonderful thing, but it’s not without its failings. And as hackers get better and better at cracking them, a team of CMU engineers are proposing an alternative: Inkblot tests.
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From January 8th, Yahoo will be enabling encryption by default for all of its webmail users. That’s great news—it just happens to be four years later than the likes of GMail.
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Over the weekend, researcher Craig Heffner of Tactical Network Solutions revealed that a fairly simple hack would allow certain D-Link routers to be breached, bypassing the authentication process and leaving one’s data open to snooping. Presently, there’s no way to patch the issue, but now D-Link has come forward stating that it will have a […]
The Lavabit debacle has been ongoing for weeks now, with details about the previously hush-hush case coming to light in recent days. For those who were affected by the spontaneous shutdown this past summer, a temporary window is being provided to get your data. Starting today, a subdomain of the site is up allowing users […]
According to the latest revelation by the Washington Post, the NSA isn’t just tracking what you’re doing on the internet. It’s also cataloging who you know, at a scope so expansive that it can barely find a way to store it all.
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If you had harsh feelings about having Google, Facebook, or any other massive company tracking your activity for their own gain, fret no more: Google is being tipped today to make with the rewards. According to a tip sent to Engadget, there’s a new app coming soon to Android and Apple’s iPhone devices, one that […]
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