Dealing with a Data Breach: Tips from the Trenches
Companies and government agencies use a variety of technologies to protect their networks from unwanted intrusions. The attacks themselves are continuing to escalate in …
Australians May Get Their Own SOPA
Christmas has come early for copyright owners in Australia. The film company, Roadshow, the pay television company Foxtel, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and …
Like The NSA And GCHQ, Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Agency Uses A Legal Loophole To Spy On Its Own Citizens
One of the striking features of the responses to Edward Snowden’s leaks about the snooping being carried out by the NSA and GCHQ is …
David Cameron wants Google and Facebook to monitor terrorist threats
The report into the death of Lee Rigby makes it clear that the British security services wants to force companies like Google, Facebook and …
Vodafone sent 1,000 News UK workers’ data to police
Vodafone sent phone data of more than 1,000 News UK staff to police who had asked for details of just one journalist, it has …
Police to get internet data powers
Police are to get powers to force internet firms to hand over details that could help identify suspected terrorists and paedophiles. The Anti-Terrorism and …
Secret US spy program targeted Americans’ cellphones
The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed on airplanes, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects …
Few Messaging Apps Found To Be Truly Secure
How secure Relevant Products/Services is your favorite messaging app? In all probability, not very. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, only six applications were …
British Spies Allowed to Access U.S. Data Without a Warrant
British authorities are capable of tapping into bulk communications data collected by other countries’ intelligence services—including the National Security Agency—without a warrant, according to …
Apple dumps SSL 3.0 for push notifications due to Poodle flaw
Apple said Wednesday it will stop supporting the encryption standard Secure Sockets Layer 3.0 for its push notifications service in response to a vulnerability …
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