Rio Olympics and the Internet
The Rio Olympics have captured the world’s attention and with this attention certain unappealing realities about Brazil’s culture and state of development have come to light. Everyone knows about the abhorrent living conditions in the city, the un-swimmable water (let alone drinkable), and the rampant Zika virus; but the latest development might just be the […]
Sophisticated Spyware Finally Discovered
Smantec and Kaspersky Lab last week separately announced the discovery of a highly sophisticated advanced persistent threat that had eluded security researchers for at least five years. A previously unknown group called “Strider” has been using Remsec, an advanced tool that seems to be designed primarily for spying. Its code contains a reference to Sauron, […]
Google Changing the Game with Fuchsia
Google is constantly revolutionizing the way they do business, and with their latest initiative they are upping the ante. Github recently revealed Google is working on a brand-new operating system, one that could challenge the reigning kings iOS and Windows. Fuchsia as they are calling it, would be a “new open source project that […]
The Growing Problem of Cyberbullying
Smartphones are proliferating among adolescents, and so is cyberbullying. That’s particularly worrisome due to its potential contribution to the No. 2 cause of teen death: suicide. About 26.3 percent of the middle- and high-school students who responded to a nine-school survey indicated that they’d been bullied in each of the eight years the poll was […]
