Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Friday, 2 October 2020

5.5m US households experience identity theft each year

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 "New consumer research from Parks Associates finds 5% of US broadband households annually experience identity theft, which equates to ...
Wednesday, 3 October 2018

More than 50% of the traffic on the internet is encrypted

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"In the Global Internet Phenomena report that will be released tomorrow, we give a conservative number that "more than 50% of the ...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015

Two thirds of internet users are more concerned about online privacy than they were a year ago

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"The CIGI-Ipsos Global Survey on Internet Security and Trust, undertaken by the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) a...
Tuesday, 15 April 2014

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 rose 6,000% following the Edward Snowden revelations

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"Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have shot up following revelations that the United States' National Security Agency (NSA) is acc...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013

American teens, social media & privacy

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"Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a varie...
Thursday, 20 September 2012

Nearly 11% of 4 digit passwords are '1234'

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"I was able to find almost 3.4 million four digit passwords. Every single one of the of the 10,000 combinations of digits from 0000 thr...
Tuesday, 17 July 2012

The average Briton has 26 online accounts, but only uses 5 passwords

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"The average Briton now has 26 online accounts, yet uses just five passwords to keep them secure. Remembering a huge number of differe...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Two thirds of cookies on sites are from third parties

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"As UK companies scramble to comply with new laws requiring them to disclose and get permission for all the cookies they use, a new stu...
Monday, 27 February 2012

'Up to' 70% of UK smartphone users have never looked at the terms & conditions of their apps

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"Companies including Facebook and Apple are gaining access to swathes of private data from individuals who agree to the terms and condi...
Thursday, 8 December 2011

45% of American 12 year olds have a profile on a social network

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"Social networks like Facebook and MySpace are supposed to be limited to people who are ages 13 and up, but this is far from being the ...
Thursday, 16 December 2010

The top 50 passwords used by Gawker readers

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Click to enlarge Source:   WSJ blog, 13th December 2010 Note - Data comes from hackers who were able to access the site and extract the ...
Thursday, 21 January 2010

The ten most commonly used passwords

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"1. 123456 2. 12345 3. 123456789 4. Password 5. iloveyou 6. princess 7. rockyou [i.e. the name of the site the user is accessing] 8. 12...

68 Percent of Saudi girls drop their last name on Facebook

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"Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat - Are you on Facebook under your real name? This is the question that continues to haunt a large number of Sau...