I'm Danial Payne I’ve been a freelance writer, video, and web person since 1988. My passion is technology, whether it’s the latest cameras or cutting edge ways the internet is used to improve medicine. I write for Internet News Flash and am helping with the online resurrection of Digital Content Creators Magazine Contact me: danielpaynetech@gmail.com
On September 9, French police arrested a 20-year-old man for blackmailing thousands of people, both in France and internationally with so-called “sextortion” emails over the past few months. While his name has not yet been made public. Local French media report the man is a French citizen living in Ukraine.Continue Reading
YouTube has become a cultural measure of a songs popularity. It’s something fans, artists and labels all point to as a sign of success. Yesterday, the company made changes to the YouTube Music Charts, including how videos make it to the top of 24-hour debuts. YouTube Music Charts will no longer countContinue Reading
Jeremiah Fowler, a researcher at Security Discovery, made a security discovery found that 198 million records from Dealer Leads were exposed to the public in a non password protected database. The exposed data is comprised of names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses and identifiable information, including data purchasedContinue Reading
Cloudflare, a website security company, providing CDN, DDoS mitigation, and other website infrastructure services, may have violated U.S. regulations, according to a disclosure in a regulatory filing. Cloudflare is in the process of creating an initial public offering, and may go public this week. The company in documents declaring theContinue Reading
Telegram, a privacy focused messaging app with millions of users, has fixed a bug allowing users to recover media that was ‘unsent’ by other people. Telegram, offers a messaging feature that allows users to “unsend” sent messages that were sent by mistake or otherwise. This removes the message from other people’s inboxes.Continue Reading
After major data breaches, like the leaked data from MoviePass, Facebook and Equifax. It’s easy to forget you can still have your data stollen the old low tech way. But it happens. According to a translation by SoraNews Yusuke Taniguchi, a 34-year-old store clerk working in a mall in Koto City,Continue Reading
In the U.S. Roku TV is found on over a third of smart TVs. Now the company is bringing its smart TV operating system licensing to European markets. The company made the announcement at IFA Berlin. Roku says it will now allow manufacturers in Europe to license its TV designs andContinue Reading
Google announced it will no longer run ads for “unproven or experimental medical techniques”. Google says this is due to “rise in bad actors attempting to take advantage of individuals by offering untested, deceptive treatments.” Google wants to limit the marketing of treatments like stem cell therapy, cellular therapy, andContinue Reading
A database with the phone numbers of more than 419 million Facebook users was found online. The data, found on an unsecured cloud storage instance included phone numbers, Facebook user IDs and incomplete records of the user’s country, name and gender. Facebook may not be singularly responsible. According to TechCrunch theContinue Reading
Huawei is China’s largest technology company, and they are accusing the U.S. government of orchestrating a campaign attacking them. The company says the U.S. government instructed law enforcement agencies to threaten its employees and attempted cyber-attacks aimed at infiltrating its internal network. Tensions between Huawei and the U.S. government are high.Continue Reading