EU wants US companies to report intelligence agency data access requests
The European Union wants U.S. businesses to report when U.S. intelligence agencies request access to data they hold about Europeans; the reporting is one …
007 Tips for keeping your business as secure as MI6
As James Bond has shown, even a sophisticated MI6 operative with a nearly limitless budget and an array of hi-tech gadgets has to take …
Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws
Several versions of self-encrypting hard drives from Western Digital are riddled with so many security flaws that attackers with physical access can retrieve the …
System That Checks Air Passengers Against Watchlist Briefly Goes Down
The Department of Homeland Security computer system that checks airline passengers against terror watch lists briefly experienced service disruptions Wednesday evening that led to …
Behind the European Privacy Ruling That’s Confounding Silicon Valley
On Tuesday, when Max Schrems won a landmark privacy case in the European Court of Justice, Edward J. Snowden told him on Twitter that …
4 new cybercrime trends threaten your business
The more things change, the more things stay the same — at least for hackers. That’s one of the finding in Proofpoint’s mid-year threat …
U.S. court says ‘pocket-dialed’ calls are not private
A federal appeals court in Ohio has ruled that a person who accidentally “pocket dials” someone shouldn’t expect any overheard conversation to be considered …
Hacker steals login credentials of Bitdefender business users, attempts blackmail
A hacker extracted customer log-in credentials from a server owned by Bitdefender that hosted the cloud-based management dashboards for its small and medium-size business …
The government poached a renowned Googler to launch a first-of-its-kind security program
It looks like the US government may finally be taking a proactive step with cybersecurity. The White House has poached Google employee Peiter Zatko, …
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