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Instagram To Give Warnings If You’re on the Road to a Ban
With its platform primarily based around pictures rather than words, Instagram is a highly-popular social media app for many people. They have, however, always wielded their ban and suspension hammer in a rather clumsy fashion. In a report via SocialMediaToday, however, the app is changing to now give users warning.…
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Driving On The Phone To Get Roadside Automation Trials
Driving On The Phone To Get Roadside Automation Warning Trials Driving while using your phone is a pretty dumb thing to do. If we overlook the possibility of sending a slightly mistyped text message, there are far worst things that could happen. You could, for example, get points on your…
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UK ISPs Begin Crackdown on Suspected Torrenters
In an effort to crackdown on online piracy, internet service providers (ISPs) are to start sending letters to users suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted materials this month, ISPReview has confirmed. BT, Sky, Virgin Media, and TalkTalk have all signed up to the Voluntary Copyright Alert Programme, with a component of…
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Be Warned About Snoopers with the Introspection Engine
When you pick up your phone, you can have anyone from your work to your friends and children talking to you from miles or even countries away. The problem is that you often don’t have the reassurance that they are the only ones listening into your call. This was made…
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DroneTracker Will Warn You About Sneaky Drones
When it comes to technology, people are always about the latest craze. From touchscreens to internet connected devices, people often swarm and buy the latest thing, causing advances in the technology that governments and organisations often can’t deal with. The problem with drones is it’s quite hard to keep track…
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FBI Warns Against KeySweeper – The Latest Wireless Keyloggers
Security puts people at risk on what appears to be a daily basis and now the FBI is warning about a whole new type of security risk. You may think that your password gives people access to all your data, or how about downloading that malware or nasty ransomware that…
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Cyber Police Ransomware Demands Payment In iTunes Gift Cards
When it comes to the latest in viruses, ransomware is the next big thing for viruses. Ransomware benefits the hackers by encrypting all of your files until you pay the creator of the ransomware, anywhere from a couple of pounds to a bitcoin or two. The latest ransomware is titled “Cyber…
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Synology Urges You To Be On Guard Against Ransomware
Ransomware is some of the nastiest pieces of software in existence and in theory, it could hit anyone. Some people naturally have a greater risk, through the kind of work and tasks they do with their systems. But in theory, anyone can be unlucky enough to be hit with this kind…
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Toshiba Recalls Batteries Amongst Fears of Melting
Toshiba is a company known for their laptops and SSD’s, offering hardware to hundreds of people. If you are one of those people it may be best to double-check your laptop as Toshiba recalls batteries amongst fears of the batteries overheating and melting. That’s right, the batteries can actually melt.…
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Selfie Death Statistics Revealed
Most of us laugh at the selfie addicts, but there is no doubt that there are enough of them out there. In fact, the word selfie is mentioned in 365,000 facebook posts and 150,000 tweets each week alone and Instagram has over 50 million results when searching for the hashtag. That’s…
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Australia to Look at Hi-Tech Anti-Shark Methods
We’ve seen the films, the ones with the giant sharks coming up to the beach or the boat. It’s a natural fear, and one that Australia has dealt with for many years, New South Wales has over a dozen shark attacks which has resulted in Australia looking at new ways…
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New Firefox Testing Feature Warns Of Insecure Website Password Submission
Consumers are exposed to a myriad of cyber threats which are intent upon harvesting as much information as possible, from bogus emails offering state cash refunds to spoofed pages which purport to be from a genuine vendors, but are in fact aiming to collect sensitive consumer details. Well known and…
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FDA Says Stop Using These IV Drips – You Could Be Hacked
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for checking and maintaining people’s safety in regards to (surprise surprise) the food and drugs they are given. This time they’ve had to go a step further and “encourage” hospitals to replace a piece of tech from their supply lists and floors before…
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Startphones May Be Able to Predict When the next Earthquake Will Be
The common smartphone can do more than track movement, personal health or geographical position. The gadgets nowadays can also warn users of potential earthquakes thanks to advancements in GPS technology. A team of researchers from the United States reveal how a crowdsourced early warning system can look like. They say…
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MPAA Considering Pulling out of UK Pirate Notice Program
Earlier this year the MPAA entered an agreement with the UK government to begin sending out warning notices to Internet pirates. However, it seems that they don’t really believe in them and probably much rather want dangle huge fictive settlement fees in front of us and hunt the pirates with…
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