Surely, you have given a vent to your anger when you learned about Facebook’s mood manipulation experiment that played with the emotions of about 700,000 users without their knowing about it. The unwarranted experiment even prompted an investigation by the government and drew lawsuits.
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Amazon faces FTC lawsuit for in-app purchases
Online retail giant Amazon has been slapped with a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission after parents complained that they have lost their hard-earned dollars, amounting to millions, to the simplicity of making in-app purchases through Kindle Fire, performed by their children.
NSA spying on privacy tool users
As if the still fresh scandal involving the National Security Agency’s spying on every individual were not enough, new revelations point to the NSA’s secret activity of targeting users of privacy tools such as the Tor and all others.
MiniLock all-purpose encryption tool is coming our way
Nadim Kobeissi, a security consultant, is planning to roll out a beta version of an encryption tool called miniLock later in July. The program is developed to encompass all applications for encryption in an effort by Kobeissi to help users overcome the challenges of encrypting and decrypting secured files with only a single tool at […]
Did Microsoft overkill No-IP.com domains?
Over the week there were mixed reactions to the way Microsoft took down the domains run by No-IP.com after the discovery of a great number of botnets that a court order mandated the software giant to shut down.
Brazil’s Boleto payment system besieged by hackers
Amid the bustle of World Cup 2014 in Brazil, attackers have also kept themselves busy by targeting the Boleto payment system, one of the widely-used payment methods in Brazil and siphoning off millions to billions of dollars in stolen money.
