There’s no doubt Google Photos is a massive landgrab for personal data — at a time when visual imagery is the biggest social currency of the web.
Source: Google Photos Reminder: Smile, It’s Free — You’re The Product! | TechCrunch
Monthly Archives: June 2015
TechYou joined a botnet if you use this VPN service – Fortune
A spam attack shed light on this virtual private network’s shady business practices.
Source: TechYou joined a botnet if you use this VPN service – Fortune
How Rock Iconoclasts Devo Became Leaders Of The 1980s Nerd Nirvana | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
In an excerpt from her new book, Evie Nagy describes how the new wave pioneers fought corporate control with Freedom of Choice.
Unicode of Death got you down? Here’s how to fix it | Cult of Mac
If you’re unwittingly participating in the return of the Unicode of Death, here are some things to try.
Source: Unicode of Death got you down? Here’s how to fix it | Cult of Mac
What Happens to Your Data When You Monitor Your Personal Fitness | Robin Raskin
Wearing a fitness bracelet from FitBit, Jawbone, Microsoft, Withings, and others has become increasingly common. About one in ten people in the US now do some sort of fitness monitoring.
Source: What Happens to Your Data When You Monitor Your Personal Fitness | Robin Raskin
Hackers have been using the Starbucks app to steal money from latte drinkers – Quartz
Thieves steal tax data for 100,000 from an IRS website
You might need to keep a closer eye than usual on your tax-related info. The Internal Revenue Service is warning that intruders stole tax data for 100,00
Source: Thieves steal tax data for 100,000 from an IRS website
NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones – The Intercept
The NSA and its partners developed a top-secret method to infect smartphones with spyware through Google and Samsung app servers, Snowden documents reveal.
Source: NSA Planned to Hijack Google App Store to Hack Smartphones – The Intercept
GPU-based rootkit and keylogger offer superior stealth and computing power | Ars Technica
Proof-of-concept malware may pave the way for future in-the-wild attacks.
Source: GPU-based rootkit and keylogger offer superior stealth and computing power | Ars Technica
Google will force Chrome developers to use the Web Store
If you’re a developer, installing Chrome extensions from outside the Chrome Web Store is about to get a bit harder. A little under a year ago, Google started forcing all…
Source: Google will force Chrome developers to use the Web Store