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Click Here to Accept: The Terms of Service Conundrum
One of the little compromises that we’ve all had to make to get the advantages of mobile apps is the blind acceptance of the terms of service for the app stores. They are long multi page long documents...
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Threats To Your Mobile Privacy Come From All Directions These Days
A group of Internet activists and privacy advocates penned an open letter to Microsoft earlier this year urging the company to shed light on just how confidential the conversations are that take place...
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The Risks of ‘Checking In’
Sure, it sounds like a great idea to check into your favorite bar or coffee shop on Facebook, Foursquare, Yelp, or any number of applications that let you make similar announcements of where you are...
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No Shortage of Mobile Secure Storage Apps
It is well established that the rapid proliferation of mobile devices has presented a number of unique security concerns – especially given the increasingly blurry line separating personal devices and...
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5 Security Apps For Windows Phones
Microsoft’s Windows Phone has been around since 2010, but the device started gaining steam with the release of Windows 8 in the summer of 2012. Though the devices still pale in market share to would-be...
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Bad Guys Are Watching You (via insecure Wi-Fi)
Recent developments in the smartphone world and the emergence of mobile apps for almost every use inevitably led to increased smartphone and tablet usage when dealing with sensitive data. Be it your CV...
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What will the office of the future look like?
Have you ever wondered how a typical office would look in a decade or so? The first thing to come to mind is likely some pseudo hi-tech equipment based on a bad sci-fi: retina scanner at the entrance,...
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Kaspersky QR Scanner Is on Guard!
In God we trust; the rest we check — this is a wise principle in terms of security that includes the use of widespread QR codes. Not many suspect that someone could replace a code on an official...
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#BionicManDiary Entry 003 – The one where I bypassed the smartphone’s password
The most devastating disappointment I have ever experienced since I started the biochip experiment is Apple’s position towards NFC. Or, to be more straightforward, the company’s desire to usurp the...
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Facebook Messenger: The New Platform to Rule Them All
According to Nielsen’s year-old report on the state of mobile technology, users across multiple developed markets have one thing in common: they spend roughly 40% of their actual screen time on...
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Twitter Launches Periscope, Social Noise in Our Lives Reaches Crescendo
Major social networks have been known to either unbundle their functionality into multiple apps, or buy other apps and not integrate their functionality into the main one: e.g. Twitter acquiring Vine....
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Tracking airplanes: how Flightradar24 works
Many people are very anxious when it comes to flying, even if they are not the ones on board. “Call me as soon as you land,” my Mom instructs me every time I fly. And she gets pretty mad if I fail to...
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Digital detox or Doctor, I’m attached to my smartphone — is it normal?
How did you like it the last time you saw your friends? Did you have a nice chat with them? Or were you all only taking pictures of your meals to post them on Instagram and talking to each other on...
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My risky gamble: 24 hours without smartphone
I am not a gambler, and it is not too easy to lure me into a dare. Yet, I could not resist it this time. A friend posed this bet to me: “A bottle of good scotch in exchange for a day without my trusty...
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Tell me who you are and I will tell you your lock screen pattern
The predictability of human beings can barely be overestimated. This predictability can be easily exploited when it comes to things like passwords, secret words, PIN codes and more. Many of us use...
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Pitting wits with a tablet: 10 best mobile games for kids
Despite our dismay in how much of a presence computers have in our kids’ lives (in all senses of the word), it is an unavoidable part of our evolution that you simply cannot ignore. If you decide to...
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Banking Trojans: mobile’s major cyberthreat
We are still in the midst of the smartphone boom. Over the past couple of years, over 50% of all mobile devices used by consumers are smartphones. In turn, this leads to a major problem: mobile...
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Keep calm and search Facebook with Google
Over the past few weeks, we’ve discussed a few areas where you should brush up on your personal privacy settings for both Facebook and Google. Chances are you read it and said, “man that would be good...
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Click Here to Accept: The Terms of Service Conundrum
One of the little compromises that we’ve all had to make to get the advantages of mobile apps is the blind acceptance of the terms of service for the app stores. They are long multi page long documents...
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Threats To Your Mobile Privacy Come From All Directions These Days
A group of Internet activists and privacy advocates penned an open letter to Microsoft earlier this year urging the company to shed light on just how confidential the conversations are that take place...
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