Facebook gave Apple, Amazon, Spotify, Netflix, Bing, Microsoft access to your privates messages
A bombshell report from the New York Times about Facebook’s mishandling of user data involved giving Spotify, Netflix and the Royal Bank of Canada “to read, write and delete users’ private messages, and More...
Survey: 82% think Congress should do more in 2019 to regulate big tech
The new Data Care Act proposed by Democrats, just one day after Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s House hearing, could be just what the majority of Americans really want. A new Online Privacy Survey* from ExpressVPN reveals More...
Supreme Court rules that police can keep using cell phone data to track criminals
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday imposed limits on the ability of police to obtain cellphone data to use locate criminals in a narrow 5-4 vote. Privacy activists are touting the case of Carpenter v. United States More...
Europe takes on Mark Zuckerberg and his dodging questions
Mark Zuckerberg’s big European test did not go well. The Facebook CEO apologized for the company’s mistakes but angered European lawmakers by dodging their questions. Zuckerberg was questioned on Tuesday by More...
Exceptional Software Strategies, Inc. – Protecting Your Business from Online Hacking
Managing a business is getting tougher and tougher these days. You have to keep customers happy, manage your finances, deal with a constantly hanging employee landscape, and always be concerned about existing and More...
The Chilling Effect of Privacy Invasion
Honestly, I thought I had personally put the NSA and Snowden topic to bed a couple of years ago. Thankfully the topic didn’t die. In fact, it keeps popping up in the news, directly and indirectly. Why do I say More...
Five Data Protection Measures Everyone Should Use
Though most people don’t realize it, their data is incredibly important. With your data, thieves can hack into your bank account, get money from you through ransomware, or destroy everything you’ve created. More...
USA RIGHTS Act introduced in the Senate to protect Americans’ security and liberties
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and a total of 11 senators today introduced the USA RIGHTS Act, which reforms a sweeping, secretive government spying program to protect the Constitutional rights of More...
Data Security in the News
According to the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report, around 52 percent of merchants have experienced a data breach in one form or another. In addition, around 19 percent feel vulnerable. The problem is many retailers, More...
How to prevent a cyberattack on your business
More than a third of SMEs in the UK have been the target of a cyberattack of some kind during the last twelve months, and the consequences are becoming more devastating due to the detrimental impact on an enterprise’s More...
Big Data Marketing: Why it’s Important to Your Startup’s Success
By this point, you’ve likely heard of the term “Big Data”. The term sounds impressive but not everyone is familiar with its meaning nor are they aware that it is a growing trend that will definitely More...
DOJ delays on evidence surrounding Trump’s wiretapping allegations
The Justice Department asked lawmakers for more time Monday to gather evidence related to President Trump’s claim that President Obama ordered wiretaps on Trump Tower’s phones during last year’s More...
Useful APIs For C# Programming
The use of different Application Process Interfaces (API) for C# is constantly on the rise. Programmers and companies around the world have literally developed thousands of APIs for C#. As a matter of fact, these More...
Why Digital Security Is So Important for Modern Businesses
Today’s business relies heavily on technology and digital communications in ways that most are just beginning to understand. Unfortunately, this also leaves them vulnerable in ways which they cannot understand More...
Chris Christie: Ted Cruz, Rand Paul made America less safe with vote against NSA monitoring
photo/donkeyhotey Chris Christie took shots at his fellow GOP presidential candidates, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz, and Democrats Tuesday morning, telling the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe that they had made America More...
Change Your Business with Cloud Hosting Providers UK
It seems as though the business world today, no matter what type of industry or niche you may be a part of, is always rapidly changing and evolving. Just as you get set in one type of system for doing business something More...
Finland: Welfare recipients to get microchip, stop money flow to ISIS
Finland may be moving quickly to require microchip implants for some of their citizens under the guise that money will not flow to Islamic State Muslims. A Finnish Party politician says welfare recipients should More...
NSA documents detail monitoring of Americans’ calls, passwords, photos
New documents show the details of the NSA surveilance program and just what sort of data XKeyscore catalogs, confirming the monitoring of Americans’ phone calls, photos, passwords, documents and much more. According More...
Jeb Bush on NSA monitoring Americans: no proof of civil liberty violations
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a likely 2016 presidential candidate, says Congress should reauthorize the Patriot Act “as is” and that the Obama administration should pursue a tougher strategy against ISIS. Bush More...
Massachusetts court: NSA metadata collection not legal through Patriot Act
photo Donkeyhotey [email protected] The Patriot Act does not approve and authorize the collection of metadata by the government, according a court ruling in the Northeast. Massachusett’s Second Circuit More...
