7 Vegetarian and Vegan Apps for a Healthier Life

Hippocrates said “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” The human body thrives off vegetables, so it should be no surprise that more people than ever before are turning to a vegetable-based lifestyle.

The problem with this lifestyle, if you’ve never tried it before, is that our world isn’t built for it. You’ll find fast food, processed food, and lots of meat everywhere you look. To make sure your diet is mostly plant-based, you really have to work at it and plan for it.

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What Is Mylobot Malware? How It Works and What to Do About It

This is a doozy right here…. be on your shit!

Cybersecurity is a constant battleground. In 2017, security researchers discovered some 23,000 new malware specimens per day (that’s 795 per hour).

While that headline is shocking, it turns out that the majority of these specimens are variants of the same malware type. They just have slightly different code that each creates a “new” signature.

Every now and then, though, a truly new malware strain bursts onto the scene. Mylobot is one such example: it’s new, highly sophisticated, and gathering momentum.

The Dorito Effect – The Surprising Truth About Food and Flavor

The food game is a hustle ESPECIALLY in AmeriKKKa now with un-natural things even being label natural now to fool people….

In his book “The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor,” award-winning journalist and author, Mark Schatzker, investigates the introduction of flavor into the industrialized food supply. An investigative journalist by profession, Schatzker’s curiosity about flavor led him to eventually write two books addressing this issue.

Spanish Soccer App Was Spying on Fans To Narc on Bars

Pay attention to the permission these mobile apps want…

La Liga, an app for Spanish soccer fans, was spying on fans using otherwise unnecessary GPS and microphone permissions to identify bars showing the game without a license.

31 Terabytes of Academic Research Stolen From US Worth $3.4 Billion – Latest Hacking News

Around 31 terabytes of academic research from 320 universities in the US was stolen by Iranian hackers recently. The data is said to have ended up with IRGC, which has been involved in such activities in the past as well.

Alexa Can Hear Commands You Can’t, Which Hackers Could Exploit

If you didn’t already know…

Your smart speaker can hear sounds that humans can’t, meaning attackers could hypothetically trigger a command without you noticing. It’s happening in labs right now.

How to Beat Geoblocking and Access Content from Anywhere

If you follow the news about internet privacy and freedoms, then you will have heard a lot of discussion recently about geoblocking. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it refers to the restriction of access to web content based on a user’s location. In other words, it means that some websites will be available in the US but not Canada, or that you will be restricted to using a different version of a site when you access it from China than when you access it from Sweden.

MyEtherWallet DNS Hack Causes 17 Million USD User Loss

Big news in the crypto scene this week was that the MyEtherWallet DNS Hack that occured managed to collect about $17 Million USD worth of Ethereum in just a few hours.

Facebook Is Using Dark Patterns To Undermine EU Privacy Rules

FB never plays by the rules…. bitches….

GDPR, a new European privacy law, means users must explicitly give permission for most data collection. Facebook would like you to give them that permission.

Lucky for Facebook they’re very good at getting people to do what they want. We talked last week about how tech companies use Dark Patterns to trick you, designing things to subtly push people into doing what benefits them. Well take a look at this example, from a Facebook blog post announcing their new GDPR features:

4 Examples of How Smartphone Location Tracking Can Violate Your Privacy

Like many people the world over, you’ve probably used GPS before. You may even have used it today, navigating your way to work with Google Maps. Our smartphones can precisely pinpoint our location, allowing us to get everything from local news, to restaurant reviews, in a matter of seconds.