One of the most effective steps you can take to protect your cloud account is to make sure you are using two-step verification. In addition, always be sure you know exactly whom you are sharing files with. It is very…

Consumer rights ‘aren’t properly protected’, says the ICO as it says users should be given ‘ongoing control’ over their data

WoT has left its users exposed on the web by not properly anonymizing the user data it has been selling to third parties.

Vulnerability found two years ago remains unpatched by Google

This month: 14 bulletins, seven remote code execution holes closed, and one controversial ‘promote yourself to administrator’ zero-day bug fixed.

Google is toughening its Safe Browsing policies for sites that won’t clean up their act

General Motors plans to lay off 2,000 employees at two U.S. auto plants in early 2017, the automaker said on Wednesday. From a Reuters report:GM said it will furlough the employees when it cuts the third shift at its Lordstown,…

As an open-source software pioneer, Munich spent years moving away from Windows, but now politicians are debating a report that suggests the city could eventually abandon Linux. A report on TechRepublic adds: If the authority ruling Germany’s third largest city…

An anonymous reader writes: Google’s Safe Browsing service will now brand sites which fall victim to malware repeatedly as “repeat offenders.” When a site is identified as serving malware — which usually occurs via an SQL injection attack or through…

Last night as votes were still being counted, statistician and editor-in-chief for FiveThirtyEight Nate Silver pointed out that while Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States, “it’s possible, perhaps even likely, that [Hillary Clinton] will eventually win…