IBM is looking into a technology that can help detect and identify a fraudulent access of personal data stolen from its legitimate owner. The cognitive fraud detection system is especially useful to website developers and cloud providers that maintain logins and network access on a daily basis.
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Google to phase out third-party add-ons for Chrome
In a far-reaching move to ensure that browser plug-ins and extensions finding their way into the Chrome world, Google reiterated and bolstered its plan to phase out third-party add-ons that do not comply with its goal.
Apple’s Find My iPhone feature vulnerable to ransomware schemes
The intended role of Apple’s Find My iPhone feature ends when your iPhone or iPad falls in the hands of nefarious scammers, as has been shown by a recent incident in Australia.
FBI cracks down webcam-spying malware called Blackshades
The idea of spying on Internet users through their webcams seems a no-brainer. And rightly so.
Facebook would like to collect data through your smartphone microphone
Aside from the default friends-only privacy setting that Facebook has announced this week, and which made the headlines more prominently than anything else that it unveiled, the social media titan also introduced a feature to turn on a smartphone’s microphone as a way of collecting data.
Restaurants on Facebook: Now with Menus!
Most individuals go on Facebook to catch up with the news of friends and family. Outside of this realm, Facebook started to become a news source for many individuals looking to catch up on headlines in both world news and pop culture.
