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Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.

In this week’s edition Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Dave and Jeff look at hackable heating, using Twitter to predict traffic jams and how to stop the spread of fake news.

Google’s new E-Screen Protector prompts users when prying eyes are on their smartphone screen. Is this technology useful?

This week’s Transatlantic Cable podcast dishes on pizza, unsafe kids smartwatches, and more.

Modern technology actually helps phone scammers — what you need to know to stay safe.

More than 70% of active Internet users have considered quitting their social networks. What do they have to lose?

The Waze navigation service creates problems for locals, police, users, and itself

When Google announced Allo, we thought the search giant was finally paying attention to users’ concerns about privacy. Reality turned to be quite different.

We discovered a Pokémon Go Trojan in Google Play. It had already been downloaded 500,000 times.

Powerful chatbots can replace real-life communication — and take over the world.

Facebook launched Aquila, a solar-powered drone which took its inaugural flight last week. Why does the social network need its own drones and how it is connected to the Google Loon project?

A recent story suggests Google is secretly recording your conversations and discussions. Are they really doing that?

At the recent I/O 2016 conference Google announced Android N, Wear 2.0, new messenger Allo, voice assistant Google Home, and a laundry list of other tech miracles. What about security?

A group of security researchers have discovered major flaws in Google’s reCAPTCHA technology.

Google has begun phasing out Chrome support on legacy OS X platforms.

Say it ain’t so, Bruce Wayne’s home hacked.

Apple SIM, Google Project Fi and, for example, GigSky are all virtual SIM cards. OK, what’s so virtual about them?

Facebook will now let Google index the mobile app from the search engine.

Popular online messengers cannot be considered secure enough, yet people continue to use them to exchange private and critical information.

What does Google know about you and me? Let’s check it with the new “About me” tool.

One can find a number of reasons why this very bug cannot be patched right now, or this quarter, or, like, ever. Yet, the problem has to be solved.