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by John E Dunn Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that it’s possible to spoof turn-by-turn GPS road navigation to send users to specific wrong locations. Although generalised [...]

by Lisa Vaas Forget about getting rid of fake news, Facebook said on Thursday. It might be raw sewage, but hey, even raw sewage has a right to flow, right? @oliverdarcy Instead, we demote [...]

by Danny Bradbury Someone has been sending sextortion scam emails with a new twist – one aimed at making it more likely you’ll be duped into paying a blackmail fee. One of the emails arrived at [...]

by Paul Ducklin Another day, another Linux distro with malware troubles. Last time it was Gentoo, a hard-core, source-based Linux distribution that is popular with techies who like to spend hours [...]

by Paul Ducklin Lots of people think that a VPN, short for virtual private network, is enough on its own to keep them safe and anonymous online. If you add some sort of mostly-untraceable digital [...]

by Paul Ducklin Remember Timehop, the “digital nostalgia” app? No, nor do we, but the company still has a database of about 21,000,000 users who have given the app permission to sift through [...]

by Paul Ducklin Remember the Gentoo data breach story last week? Someone broke into the Linux distro’s GitHub repository, took it over completely by kicking out all the Gentoo developers, [...]

by John E Dunn Internet users have grown used to the idea that they can be tracked and profiled as they browse the web, but what about the specific risks of smartphones? With an array of sensors, [...]

by Lisa Vaas Over the weekend, a computer science blogger for WonderHowTo who’s known on Twitter as @tahkion announced his revelation that makeup worn by fans of the hip hop duo Insane Clown [...]

by Danny Bradbury Just because a document isn’t digital doesn’t mean it doesn’t contain metadata. Printed documents often have their own hidden details, and now German researchers have developed [...]