Chances are that you’ve seen advertisements for services offering a dark web scan lately. They’ve even made their way to regular TV commercials, with Experian’s dark web scan being one of the most popular. With data breaches becoming more common, it seems like a good idea to protect your security in this way. However, you […]
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Facebook has become a behemoth of social networking. As of June 2017 there were over two billion active users — or a quarter of the world’s total population. From its beginnings as a small project at Harvard College between Mark Zuckerberg and friends, it has grown into one of the world’s largest technology companies. Of […]
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Everyone reading this will have dealings with various tech companies. Often on a daily basis. From your ISP to your favorite online retailer. From your social network of choice to the company that gets you from A to B. These companies are often ingrained in our everyday lives. Few of us consider whether we should […]
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The last few years has seen the introduction large swathes of products with either wireless or contactless technology. While these products are mostly sold on the lofty ambition of convenience this isn’t always how things turn out. Not only do they not always live up to their sales pitch, these smart devices they can also […]
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The Web of Trust browser extension has been silently and forcibly removed by popular web browsers Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. German news outlet NDR conducted an independent investigation into Web of Trust’s (WOT) data handling practices, reporting that the widely-used privacy and security extension was collecting and selling user data to third-parties. Breach the Web […]
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If you have Web of Trust installed, you should consider uninstalling it right now. Why? Because Web of Trust, also known as WOT, has been caught collecting and selling user data. Even worse, this data hasn’t always been successfully anonymized. Web of Trust (WOT) is a tool designed to help you browse the web safely. […]
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