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How to stop Google from tracking your every move.

Easy trick to stop Google spying

HAVE you ever checked your phone and had the feeling that you’re being watched? It’s not a coincidence. Here’s how to stop it.

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Web’s most annoying feature dead

Web’s most annoying feature dead

IT IS the internet’s most annoying feature that has been frustrating millions of people for years. And soon it will be gone.

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Former UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage sits in the audience during a press conference in London on February 28, 2017 A bitter row broke out Tuesday within Britain's anti-EU, anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP) as founder Nigel Farage called for its only member of parliament to quit. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS

Wikileaks’ bizarre secret meeting

THE man responsible for the rise of Britain’s exit from Europe has held a secret meeting with Wikilieaks. There’s something strange about it.

This picture taken by North Korean news agency KCNA (Korean Central News Agency) on March 2, 2017 and released on March 3 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) and his wife Ri Sol-Ju (2nd R) visiting the Mangyongdae Revolutionary School in Pyongyang to plant trees with its students on a tree planting day. / AFP PHOTO / KCNA VIA KNS / STR / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

America’s ‘secret cyberwar’

WHEN Donald Trump became president, he inherited a secret cyberwar from Barack Obama. The aim is to stop North Korea’s terrifying ambitions.

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US Marines come together after having taken part in an amphibian landing excercise in Chonburi on February 17, 2017 during the ten-day multi-nation Cobra Gold military exercise. The annual joint 'Cobra Gold' military exercises kicked off as Asia grapples with uncertainty over the direction of US foreign policy under President Donald Trump. / AFP PHOTO / ROBERTO SCHMIDT

Marines in nude photo scandal

THE US Marine Corps is amidst a nude photo scandal in which pictures of soldiers were posted in a secret Facebook group.

FILE - In this Feb. 19, 2015, file photo, Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer delivers the keynote address at the first-ever Yahoo Mobile Developer's Conference, in San Francisco. There have been high hopes for Mayer ever since she came to Yahoo in 2012 to take over as CEO. But the former Google executiveâ€™s tenure has been rocky at the company. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)

CEO’s stunning gift to employees

MARRISA Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, has taken the blame for massive data breaches at the company. How she handled it though, was priceless.

Cloudpets hack

Millions caught in teddy bear toy hack

HACKERS targeting security flaws in internet-connected teddy bears have stolen million of recorded messages between parents and their young children.

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City has leading role in cyber crime fight

BRISBANE is at the forefront of the nation’s cyber security efforts with the opening of a new multimillion-dollar centre.

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Site secretly films gyms, toilets

ORDINARY Aussies’ nude photos have been exposed online with a network of spy cams operating in public toilets and gyms.

Iconic image for Ashley Madison website, an online dating site that was recently hacked. The personal information of those using the site was breached.

Hackers target singles this Valentine’s Day

IF you were planning on joining a dating site to be less lonely this Valentine’s Day, there is some bad news.

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Simple trick can expose browser history

Simple trick can expose browser history

IF YOU’RE an avid social media user, researchers have revealed just how easy it is to see everything else you do online.

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Country where your data’s up for grabs

EVER wanted to know your colleague’s salary, or the exact locations your friend has been to? Welcome to the country where people’s most private information can now be purchased.

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Security misstep helped Trump

MANY are blaming the Russians for the Hillary Clinton email hack, but one person has reminded people of some rather embarrassing facts.

Trick lets you spy on friend’s downloads

A CONTROVERSIAL new website gives you a way to spy on what people are downloading. But its creators say it can be a force for good.

Yahoo baffled over hack of 1 billion users

YAHOO has failed to determine how hackers were able to get into its system and steal personal details from 1 billion users.

A billion Yahoo accounts hacked

YAHOO’S security woes go from bad to disastrous as it admits hackers stole personal data from one billion accounts.

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Pamela Anderson on Baywatch

Pamela Anderson: ‘Assange is a hero’

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange has found an unlikely supporter in former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson.

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Keyboard scam

Scam email warning for Aussies

POLICE have issued a warning over fake parcel delivery emails, so if you have ordered anything online be careful.

Bangkok. Thailand - March 11, 2016: Women holding iPad with App snapchat on the screen. Snapchat is a video messaging application created by Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphy, and Reggie Brown Poster when they were students at Stanford University Photo: istock

Biggest security threats of 2017

SNAPCHAT users are just one of the groups expected to be targeted next year, experts warn. Here’s what you need to watch out for.

Facebook logos are pictured on the screens of a smartphone (R), and a laptop computer, in central London on November 21, 2016. Facebook on Monday became the latest US tech giant to announce new investment in Britain with hundreds of extra jobs but hinted its success depended on skilled migration after Britain leaves the European Union. The premier social network underlined London's status as a global technology hub at a British company bosses' summit where Prime Minister Theresa May sought to allay business concerns about Brexit. / AFP PHOTO / Justin TALLIS

Tech giants to create digital ‘footprint’

FOUR of the world’s biggest tech giants – Facebook, YouTube, Microsoft and Twitter – will create a digital “footprint” of content they can share behind the scenes. Should we be worried?

Hillary Clinton poses with four-year-old Sullivan at an event in Charleston. Sullivan has dressed up like Clinton for Hallowee. Picture: Facebook

Mum fights disgusting Clinton meme

A TREASURED photo of a four-year-old girl posing with her idol, Hillary Clinton, turned into a sinister internet meme that has left her family devastated.

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Has IS infiltrated Secret Service?

Has IS infiltrated Secret Service?

A FORMER porn star has been arrested by Germany’s Secret Service after allegedly selling sensitive information.

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2016 file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. For all the concerns raised in the presidential campaign about Trumpâ€™s fitness to command Americaâ€™s nuclear arsenal, the immediate questions heâ€™s likely to face as president arenâ€™t about launching these weapons, but modernizing them. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

The internet is moving to Canada

CLINTON supporters are not the only ones in denial of the Trump result – the entire Internet Archive is plotting a move to Canada.

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Porn viewing could get awkward

HACKERS have allegedly exposed the details of 380,000 users of the pornographic website xHamster — including Australian viewers.

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IBM pays out millions for Census fail

IBM pays out millions for Census fail

PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull says IBM was overwhelmingly responsible for this year’s census debacle — and the tech giant has paid big time.

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Radical fight against revenge porn

Radical fight against revenge porn

AUSTRALIA will target the growing problem of revenge porn with a beefed-up cybersafety watchdog and a new tool to take nude photos off the web.

Communications and ventilation equipment stand atop the former AT&T Long Lines Building at 33 Thomas Street in this aerial photo taken over New York, U.S., on Wednesday, July 7, 2010. New York City, the third-largest U.S. municipal borrower, may face budget shortfalls as large as $5.1 billion next year, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said. Photographer: Keyur Khamar/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Mystery behind ‘tower of doom’

IT WAS built to withstand an atomic blast and for years people have wondered what its story is. Now all has been revealed.

Creepy website monitors you

Creepy website monitors you

A NEW website has been developed to demonstrate how your online behaviour is analysed in real-time and it’s actually very troubling.

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‘Is someone really coming for me?’

‘Is someone really coming for me?’

GINGER Gorman thought she was writing a story about discrimination. But when her subjects were jailed for paedophilia the internet turned on her.

‘These are civic dangers to everyone’

‘These are civic dangers to everyone’

EXILED NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden weighs in on what many people see as the ‘disaster’ of Trump running the world’s largest surveillance program.

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