Can Police Officers Legally Force People to Provide Their Passwords or Unlock Their Devices?
In January, The Tampa Bay Times wrote about Taphonie Prince, a Florida-born suspected armed robber who was given a prison sentence not because law enforcement managed to prove that he had stolen something, but because... Read more
Scammers Swindled Money out of 85,000 Banking Customers in the UK Last Year
How much trouble can a harmless tweet get you in? As it turns out, quite a lot. In fact, it can turn you into a target for criminals who'll try to steal thousands from you. UK's The Guardian recently told the story of... Read more
Customers' Information Dating Back to 2003 Exposed in a First American Financial Data Leak
Who is responsible for finding security vulnerabilities in software applications and websites? Well, there are people who have this task in their job descriptions. They use their enormous expertise to examine millions... Read more
Canva Users Are Advised to Change Their Passwords After a Data Breach
Learning that an online service with hundreds of millions of users has found itself on the receiving end of a cyberattack is never a good thing. However, many different factors regarding the nature of the breached... Read more
Spotify Forces Users to Change Passwords After Detecting 'Suspicious Activity'
According to the official filings, Spotify has around 217 million monthly active users, and of them, close to 100 million are Spotify Premium subscribers. All these people trust the streaming platform to give them... Read more
How to Reset Your TSC TPAD Password
The TSC created the Teacher Performance Appraisal and Development (TPAD) system to make sure that teachers are capable of teaching our children correctly. Also, this practice ensures that teachers will be under... Read more
How to Encrypt Your Emails in Apple Mail on Mac
Why should I bother encrypting my emails? I'm sure you've heard about the newest WikiLeaks info that hit the Internet, namely Vault 7. As it happens and to nobody's great surprise, the CIA has an entire arsenal built... Read more
5 Steps Towards a Secure Gmail Account
Gmail first appeared a little over fifteen years ago, and with more than 1.5 billion monthly active users, it's currently the biggest, most widely used free email provider in the world. This isn't such a huge... Read more
Flipboard Resets Its Users' Passwords After Discovering That Hackers Had Access to Its Databases for More Than Nine Months
For those of you who don't know, Flipboard is a news aggregator service that has more than 100 million users and collects articles from around 11 thousand websites. On April 23, its engineers noticed unusual activity... Read more
How to Check if Someone is Using or Stealing Your Wi-Fi
While internet access is relatively inexpensive nowadays, there will always be those people that just want it for free. Others have more nefarious purposes in mind – there are quite a few reasons why undesirables may... Read more
How to Encrypt Your USB Drive on Mac and Windows
Have you ever lost a flash drive? I bet you have. If you're lucky you lost a cheap USB drive containing a bunch of useless or near-useless files. If you're unlucky, however, you'll lose a lot more than that. Maybe... Read more
How to fix Your Hacked Email Accounts
Nowadays cyber-security is advancing in leaps and bounds, and plenty of companies are waking up to the necessity of taking measures to ensure the safety of online information. Yet, in spite of all that hard work done... Read more
