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In the latest news regarding the perpetual battle between corporations and malefactors on the Internet, Microsoft has declared that it has come out victorious against the largest Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack to date.

Google Chrome is one of the most popular web browsers in the world. Users from around the world do their work, school, and leisure on it. However, some people aren’t aware of how powerful and customizable it is in the form of extensions.

Mozilla Firefox recently implemented a feature back in September that was optional before, but is now enabled by default. There’s been some outrage over this; however, not a lot of discussion about what it actually does and what it means. Let’s break down how it works, and whether or not it poses a significant privacy risk to you.

If you are among the millions of Americans that is deeply concerned about their privacy, then this article should be of great interest to you. While we have discussed some of the privacy features that you can enable on both iPhones and Android devices in previous articles, we have never closely examined which of the two is superior in terms of privacy.

Recently, a report was released that found that over 11 billion dollars were spent in 2020 on the “location intelligence” industry. These are people who extract marketing data, security threats, and large-scale group behavior based on the location and movements of individuals as tracked by their phones.

Yesterday, the popular streaming platform that has accumulated more than 41.5 million users in 2020, is under extreme pressure after an anonymous hacker boldly claimed to have leaked a substantial amount of the site’s private data.

Today, billions of users were barred from using Facebook and their related apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, leaving a void in an otherwise vital communication outlet. More importantly, however, the sudden shutdown also exposed the immense amount of information that the tech giant has gathered from their consumers.

Many websites require you to enable cookies before reading and interacting with them. They’re omnipresent, often unnoticed, and sometimes can get a bad rap. However, not that many people really know what they are, what they do, and whether or not you should even really be afraid of them.