It’s no secret that privacy concerns were an issue since day one Gmail was launched. This was due to Gmail’s practice of scanning emails for personalized ads and marketing messages. Now, the free email service announced it would stop the controversial practice.Diane Greene, who is the Google Cloud senior vice president, said that from now …
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Electronic healthcare services are becoming increasingly more popular every day, and rightfully so – they enable high-quality healthcare services to people who can’t make it to the “real” doctor, to those who live in rural areas, as well as to people who cannot afford medical care. However, despite their positive results, they also have one …
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Computer scientists from the University of Edinburgh have developed a new tool that can identify fake online profiles with relative ease.The new system consists of computer models that were trained to spot online users who make up information about themselves – catfishes. The model can identify social media users who are dishonest about their gender …
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OneLogin, an identity and access management software that provides a single sign-on to multiple websites and cloud applications, has been broken into by hackers on Wednesday.The company said that the hacker was “able to access database tables containing information about users, apps, and various types of keys. While we encrypt certain sensitive data at rest, …
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Online privacy can be a tricky thing as it’s easy to get lost in a sea of information. Nowadays, we also have to wonder about who is tracking us, what for, what information will stay in the online space even after we delete it, etc. To help with these issues, Spanish designers developed Thero, a …
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In order to stop ransomware and malware scams that are currently all over the world, computer scientists are trying to find out why these attacks are successful in the first place. The research findings will be used to develop the next generation of email filters that will better at identifying and defending against cyber attacks. …
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WhatsApp is already known as the “safe” app because of its end-to-end encryption, but now the company has decided to become even safer by adding new security features to its iCloud backpack. With this addition, even WhatsApp iCloud backups will become encrypted. Why does encryption even matter? To put it simply, because with it, your …
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Classical communications, such as those over email or phone, are vulnerable to eavesdroppers as today’s data encryption is based on the factorization of large integers, which is an easily solvable operation on a quantum computer. Considering the fact that large quantum computers are only five years away from commercial exploitability (according to Google), this is …
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Cloud storage providers like Gmail and Dropbox may soon get a major upgrade that will enable them to better manage their users’ content, giving them more storage capacity, but with the same level of security. For cloud storage providers to protect an ever-increasing amount of private data, they have to encrypt that information so that …
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A new study conducted by computer science researchers at Karlstad University shows few people actually know how their personal information is being collected, used, shared and accessed. But with new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming next year, there will be higher demands on the possibility for users to access their own personal data. …
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