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Yahoo’s Security Disaster is Popularizing This Encrypted Email App

ProtonMail, the encrypted email service that touts itself as NSA-proof, claimed that user growth doubled in the wake of the latest Yahoo email hack scandal, an event that saw an “unauthorized third party” access data from more than one billion Yahoo accounts. That...

Detect Cyber Threats in Your Smart Home Devices with this Small Device

By 2025, IDC says 80 billion devices will be connected to the internet. In the near future, Gartner predicts that by 2020 there will be approximately 25 billion Internet of Things (IoT) enabled devices. If you need more proof of rapid consumer adoption in practical...

6 Great Android Apps And Games You Should Download Now

Android devices are always getting more capable thanks to the efforts of Google and its OEM partners, but that's only part of the equation. Your phone can get more useful and entertaining instantly when a handy new app or engrossing game is installed. The problem,...

Gov’t proposal envisions phone calls on airline flights

Airlines could let passengers make in-flight phone calls using Wi-Fi under a proposal from federal regulators. Flight attendants and others have complained that the calls could be disruptive. But the Department of Transportation said Thursday that it envisioned...

How to prevent phishing scams

It’s the oldest online scam in the world: Send out an official looking e-mail saying your password is out of date, and trick people into clicking it. But you can protect yourself from phishing schemes. If 2016 has taught us anything, it's that we need to be more...

10 Security trends to watch in 2017

The decisions have to be made as to how to act and to act now! 1: IOT attacks will increase.   Focus on IOT non-human devices with weak security may increase as they become the ideal candidates to be used as botnets or drones. The weaker security layers within...