June 14, 2019

Cop arrested following explicit chat with bogus 16yo girl

A male college student Snapchat-filtered himself into a young girl and went out to catch a predator. The first one he caught was a Californian cop.

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June 03, 2019

All G Suite users to get Gmail ‘confidential’ mode

Google announced that on 25 June 2019, Gmail's confidential mode will be switched on by default as the feature becomes generally available.

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February 11, 2019

Get-rich-quick social media scams are turning teens into money mules

Young people are being talked into handing over their bank details with the promise of some easy cash.

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August 16, 2018

Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail

The Australian government wants to increase the criminal penalty for refusing to decrypt data from 2 years to 10 years.

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August 08, 2018

Snapchat source code leaked on GitHub – but no one knows why

A chunk of Snapchat's source code that wasn't meant to be public just popped up on GitHub. Will this harm security?

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January 24, 2018

Apple’s Tim Cook doesn’t want his nephew on social media

Apple's CEO is the latest of a string of high-tech bigwigs to confess to holding social media at arm's length.

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November 30, 2017

Snapchat takes a swipe at fake news

Snapchat is curating items based on what YOU like, not your echo chamber, fake-news spreading friends.

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November 16, 2017

Deleted WhatsApp sent messages might not be gone forever

The first 100 characters are in the registry, and you don't even have to bother with that if you have a backup app. How very Snapchat!

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June 26, 2017

How Snapchat shares your (and your kids’) location

Some police and child protection authorities are advising parents to turn off the new feature

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