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Little reminder: Your shiny new telly is a computer, it can run malware

This morning I heard that in honor of Mother’s Day, Dairy Queen would give you a free cake if you would just send them an email with your baby’s birth certificate attached. What!?  Did I hear correctly? So, I did a search, and sure enough, there it was; on a list on the ABC News …

There'd be nothing much to wipe from a browser-based operating system, but that's the point.

Your router is the first line of defense against hackers trying to access all the internet-connected devices in your home. Sadly, many of the top Wi-

A U.S. proposal to expand the U.S. Justice Department’s ability to hack into computers during criminal investigations is furthering tension in the debate over how to balance privacy rights with the need to keep the country safe.

The Federal Trade Commission studied 12 mobile health and fitness apps, and found they disseminated user app data to 76 third parties.

Sick and tired of an internet where the National Security Agency may be tracking your every online move? So is an alliance of privacy groups and technology companies, which is proposing that users reclaim their privacy on the Internet.

DuckDuckGo is beta testing out a bunch of new features.

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We all know that Edward Snowden insists on secure email, but he's also very picky about his operating systems, too. In fact, he uses a free, super-secure

Staying aware of things is always the best advice for anyone who connects her/his computer to the internet.  We were really made aware of this over the past week with the announcement of the Heartb…

The quickest way to update all your passwords potentially compromised by Heartbleed.

Browser plug-ins arrive for Firefox and Chrome that scan websites for Heartbleed risk

This time it's serious. Really. The largest web security vulnerability of all time went public on Monday, April 7th, 2014, resulting in widespread panic...

Heartbleed is one of the most widespread vulnerabilities we have seen in recent years — it impacted an estimated 66% of the entire Internet at …

Companies that provide WiFi on US domestic flights are handing over their data to the NSA, adapting their technology to allow security services new powers to spy on passengers. In doing so, they may be in violation of privacy laws.

We compiled a list of the top 100 sites across the Web, and checked to see if the Heartbleed bug was patched.

Hacker exposed client’s data to teach a lesson, was “tired of being ignored.”…

“I would change every password everywhere because it’s possible something was sniffed out."