Twitter recently announced the addition of a new "Hide Replies" feature, which will give the platform's users a bit more control over conversations that stem from the tweets they make.

Twitter Senior Product Manager Michelle Yasmeen Haq had this to say about the new addition:

"With this feature, the person who started a conversation could choose to hide replies to their tweets.

How much of the web's traffic would you estimate to be fake, if you had to guess?  The answer to that question might surprise you.  According to the 2019 Bad Bot Report published security firm Distil Networks, the answer is just over twenty percent.

A major Chinese developer is in hot water with Google from an extensive BuzzFeed investigation which revealed that the company's apps were abusing user permissions, allowing the company to commit fraud on a massive scale.

As a result of BuzzFeed's findings, Google took the step of removing six different apps made by the company down from the play store.

Microsoft recently confirmed that the login credentials of one of its customer support agents was compromised.

This allows unknown third parties to log in and gain access to data contained in an unspecified number of users' Hotmail and Outlook email accounts.

Are you still surfing the web with Internet Explorer?  If so, you're not alone.  Four years after Microsoft announced Edge as its successor, the company's old browser still has a few stubborn holdouts who continue to use it for various reasons.

Unfortunately, security experts keep finding critical security flaws in the code that make it something of a ticking time bomb.

Do you do any indoor gardening?  If so, odds are that you own AeroGrow equipment. If that's the case, some of your personal information, including the credit or debit card number you paid for the goods with, may have been compromised.

The company recently notified its customers that they discovered malware lurking on their payment processing page.

Ransomware continues to be the weapon of choice for hackers around the world, but their distribution methods are evolving.  Recently, a new strain of the ransomware known as CryptoMix was found in the wild, sporting a new distribution methodology.

Hackers are beginning to target publicly exposed remote desktop services and installing their poisoned software manually.

Facebook can't seem to stay out of its own way.  Recently, the social media giant has made headlines on a regular basis, and seldom for anything good or groundbreaking.  Not long ago, the company found itself in the midst of a controversy when it came to light that they were asking people for their email account passwords, claiming that it needed these in order to verify the identities of the new users.

You almost certainly do not know the name Hugues Anguelkov.  He's an intern working for Quarkslab, where he spends his time researching potential security issues.

He's also a bit of an unsung hero because he recently uncovered a string of five devastating vulnerabilities in the Broadcom wl driver and the open-source brcmfmac driver for Broadcom WiFi chipsets.

Google has some good news for PC users who surf the web using their Chrome browser.  Google is adding a new feature called "Reader Mode", which will strip out unnecessary background clutter with the goal of making articles easier to read.  The new feature is currently available in the company's experimental Canary release, so if it's something you'd like to play with now, there's an easy way you can do that.