TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has “arrested or summoned” around 450 social media users over their online activities, a website linked to the powerful Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesday. (Article by Agence France-Presse) Gherdab, the cyber arm of the Guards, said the people targeted administered pages on social networks and smartphone apps such as Instagram, Telegram […]

Ah, you can never get enough paranoia nowadays, can you? Security researcher Mike Patterson — founder and CEO of security analytics organization Plixer — says Microsoft’s Windows 10 sends encrypted data from your machine every five minutes, and there’s basically very little you can do to stop it. (Article by Sead Fadilpasic) Even when he […]

Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. […]

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea’s top diplomat for U.S. affairs told The Associated Press on Thursday that Washington “crossed the red line” and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. and South Korea hold annual war […]

Robert Hannigan is the Director of the UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHK). That agency name is chalk full of Orwellian intent. This communications group was not created for government transparency on the behalf of British tax payers. No, this is another arrow in the quiver of a global scientific dictatorship. GCHK is actually an electronic surveillance and eavesdropping unit, comparable to the U.S. National […]

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales described his company as a “neutral” and “unbiased” source for information last week at the Viva Technology Conference in Paris where he also blasted the “populist media” for their pro-Brexit coverage, however many would consider this statement far from the truth. (Article by Charlie Nash) Wikipedia is frequently embroiled in controversy surrounding […]

Doomsday is a lot closer than you might think, but don’t worry; scientists have contrived a variety of possible ways we might be able to survive the impending apocalypse. Although the sun isn’t expected to burn out for another 6 billion years, astronomers believe in about 500 million years, the gradual swelling of the sun […]

A startup company known as Lilium Aviation is in the process of developing the world’s first vertical take off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, making it a major game changer for private jet flying. The aircraft, known as the Lilium jet, combines the vertical take-off capabilities of a helicopter with the flying capabilities of a fixed-wing aircraft. […]

Democratic Presidential nominee Hilary Clinton’s IT guru will refuse to answer “any and all questions that may be put to him” during a Judicial Watch deposition scheduled for next week. The IT staffer, Bryan Pagliano, is widely believed to have created and managed Clinton’s private email server while she was Secretary of State. Pagliano previously accepted […]

Twitter has created a newly formed Trust & Safety Council to help mitigate online harassment, but it’s not just cyber bullies who the social network is trying to silence. In the past few weeks, the tweets of populist conservatives and cultural libertarians have mysteriously vanished. Many people have ceased using Twitter because of abuse online. […]

The Internet can be a sick place, with numerous hackers, stalkers and spyware technology abound. Unfortunately, the world of cyberspace has just reached an even newer low. A recent game called Stolen! created by the company Hey, Inc., enables you to “collect and trade your favorite people on Twitter!” In other words, the game treats […]

An unknown hacker has disclosed the contact information of around 20,000 FBI and 9,000 DHS employees, including their names, job titles, email addresses and phone numbers. The Daily News attempted to dial more than 20 numbers published by the hacker from the DHS list. Many of the calls went to the wrong person or disconnected […]

Social media is a force for both good and evil. On the one hand, social media brings people together, disseminates news and raises cultural awareness. On the other hand, social media is just as much a source of cyber bullying, misinformation and procrastination. Fortunately, a new social media platform is on the horizon, which embraces […]

The Left-wing extremist governments of Europe continue to put refugees and migrants from war-torn, economically depressed regions of the world ahead of their own citizens, who are being required to foot the bill to care for the new arrivals, even to the point of suppressing their individual rights. As noted recently by Breitbart News, it’s […]

In recent days the editor of Breitbart Tech, Yiannopoulos, mysteriously had his Twitter account unverified, which touched of a wave of outrage over social media. As reported by Breitbart, Yiannopoulos was informed by email that his account status had been changed due to “recent violations of Twitter rules.” The blue tick mark next to his account […]