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A subsidiary of antivirus developer Avast sold every search term. Every click. every purchase. from every site. Among his clients were Google, Microsoft, Pepsi and others. This episode took place a year ago. Following an investigation, Avast stated that it would stop collecting data for Jumpshot and…
Read More... Internet evolution. From satellites to lasers and back in thirty years
Like many things in our lives, the Internet came about thanks to the military. Back in the 60s, the first…
Japeg for a million. Why NFTs are a goldmine for scammers
Among numismatists and philatelists, coins and stamps that came out in a limited edition and were very quickly…
Matrix is used by secret agents and government agencies to send and receive top-secret information. Immediately after the election of Emmanuel Macron as President of France in 2017, his team faced a huge problem - their personal correspondence was not sufficiently protected from prying eyes.…
Read More... Students oppose eye-tracking tools in a remote exam
Webcams track eye and head movements, microphones record room noise, and algorithms record how often the subject…
How much top hackers earn from rewards for found vulnerabilities.
You may not make a million dollars, but hackers make good money reporting vulnerabilities.
In his recent interview with The Joe Rogan Experience (JRE) Clips, Edward Snowden, a former CIA officer and a true fighter for the truth, discussed whether smartphones eavesdrop on the conversations of their owners or is it just a myth. If this is true, then how do they do it? There have been many…
Read More... controversial act. How the UK is secretly testing a new system to spy on users on…
In 2016, the UK passed the Investigatory Powers Act (“Investigatory Powers Act”). This event led to the creation of…
I control your cursor. How tools for remote control of computers were created
How technology has evolved to allow people to remotely access the desktop of other users, and why it is important…
The Internet is the backbone of data transmission over the network, the technical infrastructure that makes it possible. At its core, the Internet is a large network of computers that are "connected and communicate" with each other. The history of the Internet dates back to the 1960s. It was created…
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