Google To Remove Revenge Porn Results
June 22, 2015 | Technology
Google will remove revenge-porn images and web links from search-engine results, seeking to curtail the public humiliation of people who have had their private pictures posted on the Internet.
The Web company will honour requests to take down nude or sexually explicit images shared from search results, Amit Singhal, senior vice president of Google Search, wrote in a blog post Friday. An online form will be soon be available to submit removal requests, he said.
"Revenge-porn images are intensely personal and emotionally damaging, and …
Hacker Can Send Fatal Dose To Hospital Drug Pumps
June 19, 2015 | Technology
When Security Researcher Billy Rios reported earlier this year that he’d found vulnerabilities in a popular drug infusion pump that would allow a hacker to raise the dosage limit on medication delivered to patients, there was little cause for concern.
Altering the allowable limits of a particular drug simply meant that if a caregiver accidentally instructed the pump to give too high or too low a dosage, the pump wouldn’t issue an alert. This seemed much less alarming than if the pumps had vulnerabilities that would allow a hacker to a…
What Are Hackers' Favourite Targets?
June 12, 2015 | Technology
Hackers have made the energy industry a favourite target.
A study conducted in April by Symantec, the world's biggest cybersecurity firm, found that computer-system invaders attacked 43 per cent of global mining, oil and gas companies at least once last year. In a separate survey the same month, conducted for the Organization of American States by another security company, Trend Micro, 47 per cent of energy organisations reported attacks, the highest among all corporate sectors and surpassed only by governments.
"Nowadays you have co…
iPhone's Free Private Investigator
June 9, 2015 | Technology
If you are married or in a relationship and suspect that your spouse or partner may be unfaithful to you, this article is going to make you very happy and scurrying to get a quick peek at your beloved's phone.
Conversely, if you are presently engaged in conduct that your other half would not approve, you will probably get a knot in your stomach and want to get out your iPhone and adjust some settings immediately.
Commencing with iOS7, Apple added a feature to the iPhone that literally tracks not only every place that you visit while …
Guide To Finding Any Email Address
June 5, 2015 | Technology
You know who you want to contact — now if only you could find an email address.
Some might resign themselves to mindless Googling. Or try the old Rapportive guess-and-check “trick” that’s been circulating the Internet for years.
Please don’t do that.
Not when you could be wrapping up your email address search in under 30 seconds flat.
We did some digging to build a complete list of the best free tools and tactics to quickly find email addresses by name, using publicly available information. If your favorite didn’t make the lis…
Dashlane Inbox Scan Finds All The Passwords You've Shared Over Email
May 28, 2015 | Technology
Your inbox is full of confirmation emails and other messages containing your passwords — which is bad news if someone gets access to your email.
Inbox Scan, a new tool from the makers of Dashlane, searches your email for messages containing passwords and other sensitive info so you can delete them.
You don’t need to be a Dashlane user to use this service. Just head to this page, give it read-only access to your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or AOL inbox, and let it scan. It will find all the plan text passwords sitting in your inbox, as well…
Facebook Messenger Shares Your Location With Every Message
May 28, 2015 | Technology
You’re probably aware that Facebook collects a lot of information about you, and if you’re using the mobile Messenger app, that includes your location data as well.
A new Chrome extension called Marauders Map lets anyone you’ve sent a message see that location information all at once.
By default, the mobile Messenger app logs your location in every message (you can tell if it’s on if the GPS icon next to the text box is blue). Even if you’re not actively choosing to send your location, it’s embedded in the message itself.
Open up t…
User Data Retrievable From Second-Hand Smartphones
May 26, 2015 | Technology
Are you planning to junk your smartphone in the second-hand device market for the sake of a new one? Beware as your data can be retrieved from your old phone.
A new Cambridge study has found that user data is retrievable from second-hand Android devices that have been wiped via a factory reset. Such data can be recovered even from handsets protected by full-disk encryption, the researchers said.
Most Android handsets offer no easily accessible way of deleting user data, including access tokens, messages, images and other content, the…
Are Encrypted Mobile Phones Allowing Criminals To Get Away With Murder?
May 24, 2015 | Technology
Sydney crime and bikie gangs are using uncrackable mobile phones to arrange murders, shootings and drug deals – hampering the ability of Australian police to solve the crimes.
Law enforcement agencies have warned about the increased use of encrypted mobile phones, with the devices being used to arrange at least two recent murders and hampered investigations into at least two others.
Detectives from the organised crime squad this month arrested and charged a Sydney man who allegedly had 55 encrypted devices in his CBD flat. It is unde…
Social Media Ban For Departing Workers Plan
May 23, 2015 | Technology
Workers rushing to update their social media profiles about a new job are being blocked by legal clauses in employment contracts.
Employers are waking up to the risk of employees poaching clients using social media and a few have started temporarily banning departing workers from updating their LinkedIn and Facebook profiles.
The restrictions are found in restraint of trade clauses preventing employees from alerting clients to their impending departure, including on social media.
Employment lawyer Bronwen Newcombe of the firm Davenp…