personal data

Scammers are interested in your photos with ID cards. We explain why and how to stay protected.

Using persuasion instead of viruses: How scammers talk people into granting remote access to their computers.

The personal data of 257,000 Facebook users, including private messages belonging to 81,000 of them, has leaked online. Hackers claim to have access to 120 million accounts.

No PIN on your phone? Pickpockets will thank you for that.

How scammers are exploiting the GDPR fuss to extract personal data.

Harmless toy or a way to phish for personal data?

The dangers of online dating apps on work devices

Take our quiz and find out if your online dating activity is likely to come back and bite you.

Our research shows most users of online dating sites fudge information about themselves. Why they do it and what you can do about it.

Transatlantic Cable Podcast episode 2: autonomous pizza delivery, Sarahah’s privacy issues, reprieve for victims of Yahoo!’s data breach and more.

Facebook’s settings are a moving target. Over the past few years, the company has changed various settings several times, adding, moving, even removing options. Now it’s really easy to get

Do you have any idea of how many online services you actually use or sites and forums that you visit? If you were to track and count, the sheer number

Today Google releases the Allo app — a new messaging app that was expected to provide a few cool features as well as privacy for its users. But the company

Like the invention of the fire pit, the history of the first password is lost to the depths of time. We know that Romans used them. Shakespeare mentioned passwords in

I was blinded with a strong light and then was asked the life-and-death question: “What did you do on the 5th of the last month between 10 PM and 11:30

Yesterday one of 2ch’s users attracted the attention of Russian media. This man streamed video from the hacked computers on YouTube. The anonymous user turned these sessions into a real

Saint Petersburg photographer Egor Tsvetkov recently published a photo project, created with the help of a service called FindFace. He turned the public’s attention to the website and accidentally awoke

Unless you are from Russia, you probably haven’t heard of a service, that analyzes an image of a person and finds their account in VK.com social network. It’s called FindFace.

Today information is currency. Data is bought and sold, stolen and changed, and of course, gathered. If you want to know something about somebody you can find a real bunch

In what will be our final chapter of our ‘Introduction to VPN’ course, I will tell you something beyond the usual tech jabber on VPN. I’ll cover some technical and

In the first months of 2016 a number of European countries have stated that Facebook is behaving irresponsible when it comes to users’ privacy. Facebook disagrees. In the beginning of