Security & Privacy

There are ebook analytics startups like Jellybooks that can tell publishers how members of a focus group are using an ebook - which pages are the most popular, how far each test subject got before [Read More ...]

Passwords are both the most discussed security measure and the least secure. Motherboard reports that a study of passwords leaked over the past year show that many users are recycling the same bad [Read More ...]

Security researchers at Wordfence reported on Friday that almost 2 million WordPress sites have been hacked and defaced in a recent series of hacking campaigns. The hacks are coming from a couple [Read More ...]

  The W3C (the organization now responsible for developing the Epub standard) has taken the position that researchers should have to get a company's permission before revealing security flaws or [Read More ...]

Techdirt brings us the news that the Freedom of the Press Foundation wants camera makers to build encryption into their products. Encryption has become one of the key issues in the digital world [Read More ...]

Today we had a graphic lesson in why one should always use a complex password with online services. MailChimp is one of the more popular mailing list services. I use it when building author websites, [Read More ...]

URL shorteners are a great way to clean up long and messy links and share them, but their use comes with a security warning: don't click on links from people you don't know/trust. Now we have a new [Read More ...]