Apple's Patriot-Act-detecting "warrant canary" dies
It's been less than a day since the company published its new, excellent privacy policy — but Gigaom has noticed that the latest Apple transparency report, covering Jan 1-Jun 30…
Computer users pass around USB sticks like silicon business cards. Although we know they often carry malware infections, we depend on antivirus scans and the occasional reformatting to keep our thumbdrives from becoming the carrier for the next digital epidemic. But the security problems with USB devices run deeper than you think: Their risk isn’t \[…\]
Feds haven’t reached out about massive password cache – IT firms struggle t
IT firms struggle to fix busted Web padlock — Black Hat’s big idea: U.S. should buy zero days — Beijing says it won’t buy Apple products
So Google scans email for dodgy images - should we be worried about scannin
You could be forgiven for not having heard of John Henry Skillern. The 41 year old is facing charges of possession and promotion of child pornography after Google detected images of child abuse on …
How to recover files from a CryptoLocker attack, without paying!
Boffins have created a free service to help anyone has fallen foul of the notorious CryptoLocker ransomware that encrypts computer files and demands a ransom be paid for the decryption key.
For people worried about identity theft and privacy, the discovery by Hold Security of a giant database of stolen data is highly personal. But there are steps everyone can take to minimize the hackers’ impact.
BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular file-sharing client uTorrent , unveiled its serverless chat client today. BitTorrent Bleep allows users to communicate via text or voice, fully encrypted and without the need for central servers.
'Signal' for iOS Lets Users Make Encrypted Voice Calls for Free
Open source software group Open Whisper Systems today released a new encrypted phone app called Signal, which is designed to allow its users to make...
How to better protect your iPhone and iPad against 'backdoors' and other se
Security and convenience are perpetually at war. There will always be errors, compromises, and oversights that put our privacy at risk. Old ones will get fixed but new ones will get discovered. So wha
Leave your ring of cut-brass secrets unattended on your desk at work, at a bar table while you buy another round, or in a hotel room, and any stranger---or friend---can upload your keys to their online collection.
EFF unveils secure, sharing-friendly, privacy-minded router OS
As promised, the Open Wireless Movement's new sharing-friendly, privacy-minded router operating system was unveiled at HOPE X in New York last weekend. The OS, a joint project of Electronic Frontier…
Active Directory Vulnerability Disclosure: Weak encryption Enables Attacker
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