Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of April 30, 2021 As the battle to set 6G standards begins, UK spy agency warns China seeks to “control the global operating system” While 5G is still being rolled out in many areas, some government are already rushing to set 6G standards, and China is at the head … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: April 30, 2021”
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It’s no secret that password security is often terrible. Good passwords – ones that are long and include a mix of lower case, upper case, numbers, and special characters – are hard to remember unless you use a password manager, which few seem to do. As a result, people tend to choose easy-to-guess passwords like … Continue reading “A major security breach raises a key question: what happens when your biometric data is exfiltrated from a system?”
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One thing we all have in common is that we don’t like to memorize a multitude of different passwords for all of our online accounts. It’s not easy to remember multiple passwords, so reusing the same password is a solution of convenience; However, reusing your passwords is also a very big security risk and something … Continue reading “Why You Should Never Reuse Your Passwords”
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They’ve been dubbed the digital generation, but research indicates that millennials’ cybersecurity instincts can often be just as poor as those of their elders. The latest evidence of this trend comes from a new survey conducted in Britain, which — the BBC reports — found that 52 percent of respondents aged 18-25 are using the … Continue reading “52% of British Millennials Fail This Digital Hygiene Test (And You Probably Do Too)”
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