Millions of people have smart speakers like the Echo. They are great tools that let you schedule tasks, play audiobooks, look up basic info, and what have you. Alas,...
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Category: Security & Privacy
Six Default Amazon Security Settings You Can Change for More Privacy
So as you may know, my mother is on my Amazon account. (There is a point to this anecdote, trust me.) We mainly use it to read ebooks; I...
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Bookmate Hacked (?), 8 Million Account Records Stolen (?)
Mike Cane brought my attention to a story over on The Register: Some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are on sale from today on...
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Facebook Helped Other Tech Companies (Such as Amazon) Spy On You Better
There may not be any honor among thieves, but there is certainly a collegial quid pro quo among tech companies. The NYTimes published a story yesterday that explained just...
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PSA: eBookMall Has Gone From eBook Retailer to Phishing Site
If you were a customer of eBookMall,com then you might want to look for a new ebookstore. The site has somehow come under the control of a scammer of...
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Bowker Finally Notifies Users of Hacked Website and Stolen Credit Cards
It's been over 3 weeks since I informed you that one of Bowker's websites had been hacked and that credit card numbers had been stolen, and Bowker is just...
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Amazon Continues to Ignore the Hacking of Createspace Accounts
As I am sure you have read both here and on The Book Designer, for the past seven months hackers have been targeting accounts on Amazon's POD service, Createspace....
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Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”
I just found a 100% effective way to cut back on my time wasted on Twitter. In what is very likely a response to scammers impersonating the South African...
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California’s GDPR-Lite Bill is Signed Into law
California just passed a law that is going to cause a lot of binge-drinking (and possibly mass resignations) at US tech companies in the near future. Assembly Bill AB-375, appropriately...
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Sentiment Analysis Could One Day Tell Authors How Readers Feel About a Story
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...
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The HTTPocalypse was Postponed, But It’s Still On its Way
Back in July and August of 2017 Google started telling everyone that Chrome would soon start warning users any time they visit a site enter a form on a page that...
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Far Too Many People Are Still Using “Password” as a Password
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...
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Guest Post: How Websites Watch Your Every Move and Ignore Privacy Settings
Hundreds of the world’s top websites routinely track a user’s every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a web form – even before it’s submitted or later abandoned, according...
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Offering Bitcoin Rewards for Turning in eBook Pirates, and Other Bad Ideas
Bitcoin and blockchain are the hot new buzzwords in tech, so much so that it is easy to find a double dozen startup using blockchains for the most ridiculous...
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Running a WordPress Site? Go Update the Software RIGHT NOW
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...
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