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Pinterest is the latest major website implementing a bug bounty program. The company decided to start a bounty program as it became a fully HTTPS website which allows more wiggle room for hackers to strike. Pinterest originally awarded t-shirts and other merchandise as reward, but as they expand they now pay money for exposed flaws. For more details on Pinterest’s bounty program, click here:: Pinterest Bug Bounty Program Starts Paying

Facebook has added a feature to its Messenger that allows users to send or receive money between each other. To use the feature, Facebook users will have to link a debit care to the account and Facebook will merely act as a payments processor, warning that it may take up to 3 business days for the transaction to occur. For more on Facebook’s payment feature, click here:: Facebook Adds Payments Feature

Want to know if data miners and corporations are tracking your email? Sonny Tulyaganov has developed a Chrome extension called “Ugly Mail” that can do just that. Ugly Mail’s code identifies emails that include tracking pixels from Yesware, Streak, and Bananatag, which are the most common email trackers used by third parties. For more information on Ugly Mail, please click here:: A Clever Way to Tell Which of Your Emails Are Being Tracked

A new study has found that 34% of businesses in the United Kingdom don’t have a data breach response plan and those that do have a plan often are missing components such as specialist crisis communications and legal support. Another troubling statistic is that only one third of the companies researched had a specific budget set aside to deal with data breaches and customer payouts. For more on this troubling study, click here:: UK Businesses Woefully Unprepared for Data Breaches

Microsoft will be doing away with Internet Explorer as a default web browser when Windows 10 is released. Microsoft intends on pushing “Project Spartan” to Windows OS users as its main browser. “Project Spartan” is merely a placeholder name as Microsoft is looking for a viable one. For more info on this story, click here:: Internet Explorer is dead. Long live… umm… How about some of these names?