On Friday 12th of May 2017, the largest cyber attack in history took place. Over 74 countries saw government systems held ransom by online thieves. Among the affected were the British NHS, which was all but shut down for several hours and had vital services shut down for more than…
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Thoughts from the Cyberverse – Youtube’s mass emigration
A lot of youtubers have left YouTube, or at least scaled down their presence there. From high-profile gaming channels, like a big chunk of the Yogscast, going over to streaming on alternative services to lesser known vlogers, this emigration has left a huge gap in the once diverse video platform.…
Read MoreThoughts from the Cyberverse: Shocking Sharing
They say sharing is caring, but do you care about what you share? Today we will talk about sharing things on social media, most notably on Facebook. I choose Facebook as the main target for this due to the higher exposure of images and other sensitive material and the ease…
Read MoreThoughts from the Cyberverse: Altcoins, the alternative BitCoins
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that even BitCoins have novelty currencies, just like the celebratory silver coins or gold coins that most other currencies have. It is hard to do that with a digital currency, though, so instead several sites have decided to make their sites and “miners” into…
Read MoreThoughts From The Cyberverse: In-App purchases in games for kids
Throughout the entire time Internet has been around, companies have tried to capitalize on kids. Even before that, there were a lot of companies that offered paid services to kids, such as the 90’s phone hotlines with everything from Action Man/GI Joe to bunnies or sock puppets. All of these…
Read MoreThoughts from the Cyberverse: Jumping on the bandwagon
So… social media and nifty things you can do with it… I saw a friend of mine, who is an artist, starting to publishing his own cartoon series on Facebook. He had a fairly good depiction of himself in different weird or everyday situations, basically like a status update, but…
Read MoreThoughts From the Cyberverse: Instagram Says “We have the right to sell your pictures”
It seems that Facebook has a bit of a habit of getting on the wrong side of its users. A few months back we wrote about the Retro filled Instagram, a photo-sharing social networking site owned by Facebook. Recently Instagram taken the torch from Facebook with their Terms of Service…
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