On Monday, a former Facebook contractor made a shocking revelation about the social networking site’s practice of curating trending topics for the site’s Trending News section.
GoDaddy fixed an issue with its online support that could’ve let hackers delete accounts
GoDaddy has finally rolled out a fix to a vulnerability involving its online support center, where just anyone could have manipulated the flaw and change a GoDaddy account. Worst of all, any abuse could have resulted in the removal of an account with the domain registrar.
Kiddicare suffers unauthorized access to its customer data
If you are one of those parents constantly visiting the website of Kiddicare and buying items for children, some of your personal data might now be in the hands of hackers.
Twitter addresses privacy concerns, bars spy agencies from viewing public tweets
Perhaps in an attempt to address the privacy concerns of its hundreds of thousands of users, social networking site Twitter has moved to bar intelligence agencies in the United States from gaining access to public tweets via Dataminr.
Qualcomm software flaw lets hackers access your SMS and phone history
If you are using handsets that run the older versions of the Android operating system, beware because your SMS and call logs are no longer exclusively visible to you alone.
Adblock Plus and Flattr want you to donate for content you consume if you don’t like ads
There is something distracting with flashy ads for content readers who navigate across free websites to acquire information. But it’s free after all, so consumers have to settle for the ads, without which they would not have been able to view the free content in the first place.