Thursday, December 10, 2015

51 out of 55 mobile applications is a potential threat to the user's personal data

Protection of personal data has long ceased to be a whim. According to statistics, in the US every fourteenth American in 2012-2013 suffered from so-called "identity theft" - the use of other people's personal data in their own interests. In Russia, this problem also does not cease to grow. According to InfoWatch, in the period from 2013 to 2014 the number of leaks in Russia grew by 73%, and about 3/4 of them are also used for identity theft....

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Soon Chrome for android will save up to 70% of the data for oppening webpage when the connection is slow

Google has announced forthcoming changes to Chrome that should help folks on limited internet connections save data. The change will allow you to disable automatic image loading, a very sensible approach as images often take up the majority of loading time on web pages. The implementation is very clean in that it allows you to easily load a specific image on a page by tapping its placeholder, which is good for those articles or pages where...