Twitter says it out loud: Removing anonymity will not stop online abuse

An investigation by Twitter into racist tweets levied against three Black players on the English football team following the national hopefuls’ loss against Italy last month revealed that anonymity played almost no role in whether users posted abusive comments from their accounts. The analysis,...

Chrome 86 Aims to Bar Abusive Notification Content

Google has added a new feature to Chrome 86 that aims to stomp out abusive notification content. Web notifications are utilized for a variety of applications – such as prompting site visitors to sign up for newsletters. However, they can also be misused for phishing, malware or fake messages that...

Facebook Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Social networking giant Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was introducing a two-factor security feature that will make user accounts harder to hijack. The announcement was part of a group of security enhancements by Facebook that includes improved secure HTTP features and social reporting too...