An anonymous reader shares a CNBC article: Behold the open industrial office space. At one moment, it feels like such a hip environment, bustling with easy communication and collaboration, innovation and headphones just behind every monitor. At another moment, the…

The only person you can trust with your data is yourself, warns speaker Liz Kintzele at SXSW, so it’s up to you to make sure you know what you’re getting in return for sharing your information

Opposition growing to bill that would permit ‘invasive questions’ to be asked and penalise those who decline to answer

Data stolen from an ISP after a breach has led to its customers being targeted by scammers – but blocking a widely used tool is not a way to improve security

What is data matching, and what can you do to reduce the trail of digital breadcrumbs you leave as you travel around the web?

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

Officially it’s CVE-2017-5638, but in practice it’s “the bug in Apache Struts you really should have patched by now”. Here’s why…

Two anonymous readers share a report: We decided to survey parents of young children (below 10 years old) to see how many kids in “Netflix only” homes knew what commercials are, compared to those homes who watch regular television. We…

Moves to introduce a copyright “safe harbor” provision for platforms such as Google and Facebook have received a boost in Australia after receiving backing from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. From a report on TorrentFreak: A report in The Australian indicates…

An anonymous reader shares a report: Samsung Electronics’ upcoming Galaxy S8 is unlikely to feature on-screen fingerprint scanning after its touch sensor partner Synaptics ran out of time for developing the related technology, industry sources told The Investor earlier this…