NetGalley sent out an email today (and put a notice on their home page) informing users that the e-galley service has been hacked on Monday. The hackers defaced the NetGalley...Continue reading
Category: Security & Privacy
Go Change Your Wattpad Password
Wattpad may have been the victim of a security breach some time in the past few months, so you may want to go change your password: We are aware of...Continue reading
How to Comply With Germany’s New Cookie Consent Rules
The rules for getting a website visitor’s consent before you use tracking cookies are about to change again, and no one is ready. This week the German Federal Court of...Continue reading
Eight 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 sideload...Continue reading
Amazon is Recording Everything You Do On Your Kindle – Here’s How to Request the Data
I am sure you know that Amazon tracks what you do on the Kindle and in the Kindle app – after all, Amazon can’t store your notes and highlights without...Continue reading
How to Stop Amazon From Sharing What You Say to Alexa with Contractors
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, all...Continue reading
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 the...
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 why...Continue reading
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 unknown...Continue reading
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 now...Continue reading
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. Once...Continue reading
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 billioniare,...Continue reading
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 referred...Continue reading
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 far...Continue reading
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 doesn’t...Continue reading