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It is December 19 and the year can still be very long to Facebook. Beyond how their actions have evolved in the stock market during the year, it is impossible to remember a worse course for the company, not so much for what they have done in it (as well) but for collecting the harvest of the bad practices carried out during so many years . After scandals like Cambridge Analytica, multiple security breaches or public knowledge and means of bad practices as a result of the publication of internal documents, comes the final culmination. Hand in hand with The New York Times (NYT), which recently published an extensive report on the company where the worst stop was Sheryl Sandberg, comes the publication of an investigation based on hundreds of pages of internal documents and interviews with more than 50 employees showing how Facebook would have reached agreements to allow access to data to 150 companies among which are large technology companies such as Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, Apple...

2018 has been a better year for Google than for Facebook, mediately speaking. However, the giant Mountain View has faced two major controversies. On the one hand there was Project Maven, which was a collaboration with the Pentagon with military drones, and which is supposedly canceled. On the other hand was Dragonfly, the project with which, after leaving China in 2010, Google wanted to return with a search engine that worked with the censorship imposed by the iron regime of Xi Jinping. As we have told, this has generated a division among employees and criticism of organizations that were responsible for human rights, such as Amnesty International. According to The Intercept, the media that uncovered everything, critics of the project may be in luck, because Google has effectively ended Dragonfly, after there were strong internal clashes. To build its search engine, and despite its experience in the field, Google has used data obtained through the website 265.com, which it acquired...

One of the most common tips when it comes to Internet security when we talk about authentication on websites and services is the use of two-step verification, which usually uses the smartphone with verifying element, with SMS as the main means to receive a second unique key that gives access to the service. However, as has already been demonstrated on some other occasion, "classic" security measures are becoming less infallible, and in this case the same thing happens. A group of researchers from Certfa Lab has published a study that explains how Iranian hackers, allegedly in charge of the eastern country's executive, have attacked US officials, journalists and activists. In the attack has had much prominence, as almost always, email. But the enabling part of hacking, according to researchers, is double-factor authentication, which in some cases can be very safe, but in others it does not offer the level of yesteryear. The Iranian hacker group did nothing too new. Fir...

It can be quite frustrating that your main competitor has a domain that interests you. That's what happened to DuckDuckGo, who spent several years trying to get 'duck.com' from Google. It all started in 2010, when the Mountain View company acquired On2 Technologies (a company formerly known as The Duck Corporation). Google bought On2 and the domain one year after DuckDuckGo was born. Google has hundreds of domains that point to your search engine (for example googel.com) and some DuckDuckGo users were surprised to enter 'duck.com' and end up in Google. A few days ago, rumors began to emerge that Google might have changed its mind, and now NamePros has been in charge of confirming the transfer. Of course, at the moment it is unknown how much they have had to pay Google to release this domain. DuckDuckGo thanks Google for changing its mind Gabriel Weinberg, CEO of DuckDuckGo, thanked his rival for this gesture of goodwill, since from now on it will be much easier...