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NSA mines Facebook for connections, including Americans’ profiles
In addition to phone records and email logs, the National Security Agency uses Facebook and other social media profiles to create maps of social …
Use Google’s new panel in security settings to keep your account safe
The settings aren’t new, but the wizard-like presentation is a new addition. It walks you through five important security settings for your Google account. …
Researchers find data leaks in Instagram, Grindr, OoVoo and more
By sniffing out the details of network communications, University of New Haven researchers have uncovered a host of data-leakage problems in Instagram, Vine, Nimbuzz, …
IBM Brings Bare Metal Intel TXT Security to Cloud
IBM today announced that it is bringing Intel’s Trusted Execution Technology (TXT) to its Softlayer cloud service. Intel’s TXT is a trust mechanism that …
Computer hardware containing patient data stolen from Ohio plastic surgery office
More than 6,000 patients of Beachwood-Westlake Plastic Surgery and Medical Spa in Ohio are being notified that their personal information was on computer hardware …
U.S. threatened massive fine to force Yahoo to release data
The U.S. government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day in 2008 if it failed to comply with a broad demand to hand over …
Yahoo $250,000 daily fine over NSA data refusal was set to double ‘every week’
The US government threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it refused to hand over user data to the National Security Agency, according …
Guarding your iCloud from hackers
Apple says hackers were able to access private celebrity photos through targeted attacks, going after usernames, passwords and security questions. So how secure are …
Apple to beef up iCloud security alerts after celeb photo hack
Apple plans to bolster its iCloud security measures to prevent the hijacking of accounts like that associated with last weekend’s release of a large …
How To Make VPNs Even More Secure
From being a niche product used by the few, in the past few years VPN services have hit the big time. These days more …
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