After EU court ruling Belgian users now have to log in to Facebook

Facebook users now have to log in to view the publicly available data on it's servers after the ruling by the European Court discussing the matter. After privacy ruling, Facebook now requires Belgium users to log in to view pages - The Verge  The ruling comes after the European Court observed in November that the company has undermined the privacy rules of the European Union which are more stringent than in the US.  Facebook...

Adobe renames Flash, Samsung's VR, iphone7 headphones : Tech Overview and News

 Adobe is changing the name of it's Flash professional to Animate CC, keeping in mind the interests of web developers using the tool to develop with open platforms like HTML5, tipped to be the web platform across all devices.      Adobe isn't killing flash, just changing the name to - MacWorld Adobe's new tools supports open web standards like CSS and Java Script also.  Adobe's new tool supports...

Youtube Red topping charts, Swatch's new Swipe Watch due in 2016 and Vtech hack details - Tech Overview

Youtube Red, You tube's new ambitious strategy to rope in new customers for ad-free service since it's launch in October 2015, is reportedly gaining traction as the featured app showed up among the Top Grossing charts.  Youtube is now offering the same percentage of ad-revenue share of 55% with the new service without any other options for the creators, but only sign it or leave offer. That has led to ESPN's departure from...

Windows 10, iPhone7 rumor, Amazon's unlimited online storage and Pirate bay - Tech Overview and news

 Here are some snippets of the latest and important Tech updates and news for you. 1. Windows has released new version of it's operating system that is Windows 10 in July 2015. Windows 7, 8, 8.1 Users will be able to freely upgrade to the newer version up to one year and thereafter will be charged approximately 100 pounds.  Android and iOS apps will be able function with the new OS. Comes with a new web browser...

What is Spyware? How to protect your Mobile/PC from it?

A Software program designed in such a way to extricate information from a device Mobile/PC or communication/electronic device including identity details, financial transactions, property certificates, bank information, credit card information, other personal communications etc.,  Intrusion into a system through a software program is one of the ways to do it. Often spyware is loaded on to a computer in the form of a legitimate...

What is Malware? How to protect your Mobile/PC from it?

Malware is an abbreviated term for various types of malicious piece of software like Viruses, worms, Trojans, RansomWare, SpyWare, Adware, ScareWare etc., causing your mobile/PC to malfunction. If your computer/Mobile holds crucial data and a virus attacks it, then it could cause temporary or permanent damage to your hard disk and operating system unless you take remedial measures. Worms are standalone malicious code and does...

What is a Computer Virus? How to protect your Mobile/PC from it?

A Computer Virus is a malicious software code that is designed to spread from one system to another by attaching itself to a system file of an attacked computer system or Mobile rendering it to malfunction or rendering it's Operating system corrupt. For example:- An infected Universal Serial Bus (USB) or Pen drive can infect the computer or the Mobile Phone. It not only infects but multiplies itself in to many copies and transfers...

Internet Security and Privacy at stake

Ever since the news broke out about the wide spread surveillance programmes through monitoring and interception of communications of individuals and organizations alike, the confidence of an average internet user is fast eroding in the security policies of the internet which seemed fool proof at least in terms of high end communications, such as ATM transactions and private communication networks. But detailed media reports...

Discussing Internet Privacy Issues

Now we will look at some of the web links related with Internet Privacy issues . This paper by a suffolk University researcher Morris A. Singer  notes in particular the privacy issues involved in Social Networking sphere. You can take a look at it    http://suffolkmedialaw.com/2010/05/20/how-privacy-limits-utility-using-facebook-as-a-case-study/ Below is an excerpt from that paper. "On April 27, 2010, U.S....

Browser Security Essentials for User Privacy Part 4

Continuing from the previous post, we will discuss now what are session cookies and persistent cookies and how to handle them. Session Cookies are sometimes used in authentication in order to log-in a customer into a restricted area, like chat clients, e mail, bank accounts and other authentication based user access websites, to record your visit and amount of time spent at a website and give seamless access to all the web...