You’d think that with the rising number of data breaches that have taken place as of late, the idea of creating a strong password – and not sharing it with others – would be paramount. Yeah, not so much. …

As the public perception of the Internet has shifted over the past decade, so too has the notion of hackers. Once thought of as top secret government agents gone rogue or misguided teens hell-bent on starting World War III, hackers…

For all of the progress that Twitch has made since its inception in mid-2011, the service has been hamstrung by a nagging issue: how to enforce copyright laws as it pertains to gamers that play music during their gameplay sessions.

MySpace, the social network that many joined before Facebook defined the social networking era, is still around. Not only is it still around, it’s actually doing quite well in terms of generating traffic among its lucrative 17 to 25-year-old target…

Version 35 of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is now available for download. Arriving roughly five weeks after its predecessor, the latest iteration includes a handful of noteworthy features in addition to the usual gamut of minor updates and behind-the-scenes fixes. …

What goes up, must come down… or at least that appears to be the mantra behind Bitcoin. After enjoying a meteoric rise to fame (and fortune, for some), the controversial cryptocurrency has taken a steep nosedive – especially as of…

Facebook has rolled out an enterprise-focused version of its popular social network called Facebook at Work. It’s billed as a service to give companies a place for their employees to connect and collaborate that’s free of distractions and prying eyes…

Russian’s telecommunications regulatory agency has blocked accessed to nearly half a dozen Bitcoin-related websites under the guise that it contributes to the growth of the shadow economy.

Facebook has announced that it has partnered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) to bring Amber Alerts, which seek the help of communities to find missing children, to its users' news feeds.

If you want to register a domain but would rather not use a service like GoDaddy, Google has just opened up their domain registration services to everyone in the United States via a public beta. Previously, the service was only…

Nearly a year ago, BlackBerry’s Global Creative Director and singer Alicia Keys was caught sending a tweet not from a BlackBerry device but from an iPhone. That isn’t half as bad as what happened earlier today regarding the Canadian handset…

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said that if elected again, he would push for a ban on encrypted communications services, like Snapchat, WhatsApp, and more, whose messages cannot be accessed by the country's intelligence and security agencies, even if…

This week, US President Barack Obama will lay out a series of legislative proposals and executive actions to boost cyber security and improving access to broadband Internet, the White House has said. He will also propose measures aimed at tackling…

The original Silk Road, multiple successors and several other copycat online drug markets have all been taken offline in recent years. The one thing they’ve all had in common – aside from selling illegal goods and services – is that…

Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp is back open for business after being taken offline earlier this week to investigate a potential security breach.

Lizard Squad, the group of hackers responsible for knocking Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network offline during the holidays, began offering its DDoS attack as an on-demand service earlier this month to anyone willing to pay their nominal fees. …

Reports suggest a glitch in Apple’s OS X Yosemite is making it possible for spammers to steal IP addresses and other private data from unsuspecting users. As spotted by the German tech outlet Heise, the issue appears to be with Apple’s…

Mozilla’s decision to part ways with Google as the default search provider in Firefox, which went into effect at the beginning of December, is already having a pretty significant impact on the US-based Internet search market.

When one thinks of video on the web, services like YouTube, Dailymotion and Vine typically come to mind. But after embarking on a heavy video push a year ago, Facebook has quietly climbed the ranks to become one of the…

FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has announced that the agency will vote on new proposed net neutrality rules next February 26. He made the announcement during a public interview at the ongoing CES event in Las Vegas.

Some of you may remember when BitTorrent released its Bundles product back in 2013. Bundles allow musicians and artists to offer both free and paid content, something BitTorrent feels could help the music industry to consider it a legal and…

The Internet Archive launched a campaign to preserve classic console games a little over a year ago. In that short amount of time, the non-profit digital library has amassed quite a collection of titles which are playable right in your…

Tencent Holdings, China's largest publicly traded Internet firm, has launched the country's first online-only bank. Dubbed WeBank, the financial institution is named after the company's popular messaging app WeChat, and is operating under a pilot program that aims to expand…

In the coming weeks, Google will be adding support for 360-degree video uploads to YouTube.

There’s no shortage of services that let users watch TV and movies over the web but the one hurdle that has kept many from cutting the cord is sports. Up to this point, there hasn’t been a reliable way to…