It’s always porn’s fault. Yet another cybersecurity firm has studied mobile internet users and their habits and determined porn is a primary vector for malware and malvertising, as well as a major source of data leakage. “Almost a quarter of malware on mobile devices comes from...

MONTREAL – To be fair, my issue with the recent Rolling Stone piece “How the Internet Changed Porn” doesn’t involve its central thesis, or for that matter, involve any particularly significant point made in the article. Now that I’ve copped to the fact I’m nitpicking, here’s the...

WASHINGTON – When U.S. Navy Seals raided al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound in 2011, they uncovered a huge trove of documents intelligence authorities considered a boon to the war on terror. Ever since, various entities within the intelligence...

MADRID – Facebook “does not adequately collect the consent of either its users or nonusers” before collecting and sharing intensely personal information about their lives, according to the Spanish Data Protection Agency. That “constitutes a serious infringement” of Spain’s...

WASHINGTON – Overnight Monday, the Twitter account belonging to Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, “liked” a 2-minute, 20-second hardcore pornographic video clip posted by @SexuallPosts. It’s not terribly difficult to infer Sexuall Posts exists solely to post...

LOS ANGELES – Shortly before the debut of Kink, a documentary he produced about Kink.com and the people behind it, James Franco explained his impetus for producing the film. He said he was interested in “how we define ourselves as people, how we interact with each other, and what...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – When Google launched the forerunner of Search Console in 2005, the product offered only four reports: query stats, crawl stats, page analysis and index stats. Today, Search Console provides users with more than two dozen tools that can help webmasters...

LONDON – When it comes to advice columns, self-help books or drunken uncles dispensing their hard-earned wisdom at a family gathering, I have only one requirement, just a single hurdle these sources of guidance must clear if they expect me to pay attention: They must tell me...

LONDON – It’s the sort of headline that makes even a jaded, apathetic, nearly-inert fellow like me leap off the couch and shriek “Oh my god, no!” Which headline, you ask? Why “Aliens living on nine planets outside the solar system could be watching us RIGHT NOW, scientists warn,”...

AMSTERDAM – For 15 years, a significant portion of MojoHost’s business has been hosting adult entertainment websites. This week, at the same time a hurricane appears about to knock on the door of the company’s flagship datacenter in Miami, MojoHost opened a new datacenter in...