Online Security
- NewsAOL
Plans for age verification pornography checks dropped
Age verification measures designed to prevent children from accessing pornography online have been dropped, the Government has announced. Under the scrapped plans, people would have to prove their age in a number of ways, including using
2-min read - LifestyleYahoo Life UK
Mum issues warning about disturbing content in 'Peppa Pig' YouTube video
"Please please please monitor what your kids are watching on YouTube or Kids YouTube."
- BusinessAOL
Why are we still telling people our passwords?
A third of people find that the easiest way to remember their passwords is to write them down - presumably somewhere handy next to the computer. It seems that we haven't learned any of the lessons from this year's high profile hacks.
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Dream Kardashian gets her own social media accounts: Is this the future of parenting?
Would you set your baby up on social media? ICYMI Rob Kardashian (brother of Kim, Khloe et al) and girlfriend Blac Chyna had a baby last Thursday. It may seem like an obvious step for the littlest member of the Kardashian clan to be set up on social media, but baby K is by no means the only newborn with her own digital presence.
- BusinessAOL
Google pays just $500 bounty for phishing breach risk
How much cash would spammers pay to access all Google's email accounts? Rather more than the $500 Google paid a helpful hacker, Tel Aviv-based Oren Hafif, to patch up its security email arrangements. Hafif discovered a serious flaw in
- TechnologyAOL
User identifies Spotify free download vulnerability
Spotify's online security was called into question yesterday as users found themselves able to download songs for free. Downloadify, an extension to the Google Chrome browser, let users of the music streaming site download MP3 files free
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Facebook targeted in hacker attack
Facebook has announced that it was the target of a "sophisticated attack" by hackers last month, but said it found no evidence of user data being compromised. The social network said that the attack occurred when employees visited
