privacyDo your online photos respect your privacy?
Photo files typically contain additional data on shooting conditions, including a geotag. What happens to this data when the photo is published online?
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securityEverything you need to know about Facebook security settings
Facebook regularly changes its security settings. Take a look: A useful new setting may have appeared since the last time you checked.
Breaking smart: 7 things you need to STOP doing online
Careless behavior online can have devastating personal and financial consequences. Here are seven common shortcuts to avoid.
AquilaFlying Internet: who needs it and why
Facebook launched Aquila, a solar-powered drone which took its inaugural flight last week. Why does the social network need its own drones and how it is connected to the Google Loon project?
5 golden rules for social network users
Everything you need to know about safe posting on any social network, boiled down to five crucial rules.
leaksFaster, harder, Twitter: millions of passwords leaked
Database with millions of Twitter accounts is being sold on the Darknet. At least 32 million of them are unique and probably active. What you need to do is change your password ASAP!
face recognitionHow trolls use Findface against porn actresses and why it’s bad for you and me
Aggressive moral crusaders search for porn actresses accounts on VK.com and cyberbully them along with their friends and families.
You can’t replace your face, says face recognition
The Kaspersky Daily team checks if FindFace can really find users on a social media site with one image taken on the street and if it is possible to hide from it. Some interesting peculiarities detected!
big dataHuman trafficking: big data turned you and me into goods for sales
How everyone and his dog online make the big data tyranny raise.
Privacy wars flood Facebook
They say Facebook severely violates users’ privacy. Is it true and why European authorities claim that?
Three real incidents: how to hack, rob and make somebody’s life a hell using Internet
These incidents sound like a detective story, but are taken from real life. It’s almost impossible to avoid targeted hacking and here we explain why is that so.
Is your social media profile a target?
Does your use of social media make you a liability to your company?
Snapchat caught in phishing campaign
Over the weekend, Snapchat was compromised via a phishing email pretending to be from company CEO.
Users are still too careless in social networks
Kaspersky Lab’s research shows that some users are too eager to share everything they have when it comes to social networks
Setting up your VK.com privacy settings
Let’s find out how to enhance privacy and security of your VK account
The banker Trojan asks to be friends with you
On the tracks of (relatively) recent research on the Brazilian cyberunderground comes news of a “re-ignited” banking malware which is using Facebook as a means of distribution. The threat itself
androidKeep calm and search Facebook with Google
Facebook will now let Google index the mobile app from the search engine.
Do you know what you are sharing with Google?
What does Google know about you and me? Let’s check it with the new “About me” tool.
Fact or Fiction? Reversing your PIN can call the police in an emergency
Do ATMs employ a secret trick to call the police, and should you trust anything written in CAPS?
The secret life of punctuation marks in the era of Internet
Our vocabulary continues to evolve as we see slang enter our lexicon. From Googling to memes once-thought silly words have become accepted. This evolution is also impacting the way we write and punctuate statements online.
Not everything on the Internet is what it seems
Don’t be a slowpoke, follow Dr. House’s rule: everybody lies, especially on the Internet.