Land of the free and the home of the brave? Our tax dollars at work.
Guest Post I reviewed more than 130 cloud and SaaS services and the results were a bit unexpected.
Transparency reporting is getting trendy, guys. Yahoo announced today that it will release a transparency report for data requests from governments around the world — and we’re glad it is.
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.
Yesterday’s news about the government’s ability to crack most forms of encryption is old news, according to the Office of the Director on National Intelligence (ODNI).
You rely on encryption every day, but it isn’t as safe from curious government eyes as you once thought it was.
Google pulled its Authenticator, the app that releases codes to be used for two-factor authentication, from the Apple App Store today after its latest update deleted existing user data.
Mobile security company Lookout may have made its name with consumers, but it’s eyeing a much larger — and more lucrative — market: the enterprise.
Coding platform Github is giving its users a little more security today through two-factor authentication.
Guest Post “These vendors are becoming our feudal lords, and we are becoming their vassals. We might refuse to pledge allegiance to all of them … But either way, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to not pledge allegiance to at least one of them.â€?
The Syrian Electronic Army, which usually attacks publications, redirected the Marines.com website to its own with a letter for those in the military.
The Drug Enforcement Administration has access to a huge amount of AT&T through a special program called Hemisphere.
Der Spiegel claims it has seen documents from Edward Snowden regarding the spying efforts on Al Jazeera.
Department of Justice granted Google a “stay” on its decision about whether the company can release information about FISA data requests.
The U.S. government will now release its own form of a transparency report, which is expected to debut later this fall.
Facebook changed its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities today to reflect new ways the social network can use your data. One of those ways? The network may now use your profile photos as more fodder for its facial recognition technology.
The U.S. government has majorly increased spending on surveillance programs, surpassing the levels seen during the Cold War. The CIA, which has been criticized in the years following 9/11, however, seems to be taking home the most of thismoney.
Editor’s Pick “I’m pretty sure Paypal is an actual terrorist organization,” said one Redditor, who claimed to have lost $1,000 in a PayPal transaction.
PowerCloud Systems is fulfilling the promise from its Kickstarter campaign by shipping its Skydog Wi-Fi router to more than 1,000 of its crowdfunding supporters. That means the Skydog and its companion mobile app are shipping on time.
The world supposedly learned the names of two Syrian Electronic Army hackers today, but the organization responsible for attacks on The New York Times, CBS, and other organizations denies the report’s accuracy.
The NY Times could have protected itself by having what is called a “registry lock” in place, which prevents domain transfers or changes to the DNS details. In fact, having that lock in place is likely the only thing that prevented Twitter.com from suffering the same fate as the NY Times.
Guest Post Freddie Laker is the founder and CEO of Guide.
The New York Times went dark today, the second time this month the publication was unavailable for a significant amount of time.
Facebook released its first Global Government Requests Report only a couple months after the news of PRISM hit, sending major tech companies into a reputation-defending tizzy.
“Sync skips the cloud to deliver files faster and safer,” BitTorrent says.
HyTrust wants to help any IT manager who not only has to look after many virtual machines but also has to deal with looming compliance audits. The security company received $18.5 million in its third round of funding today.
The move reportedly involved a hack against the UN’s video conferencing system.
If you didn’t believe us that hackers have been keeping themselves really busy in the last few years, this interactive graphic might just be the visual proof you need.
Nanotech Security, an anti-counterfeit technology company, raised $3.9 million for its “nano-optics” that are modeled after butterfly wings.
You may one day have to do different actions to unlock your Android phone based on where you are, according to a patent filed by Google.
It seems every app is building some new awesome way to share, but none of them come close to PRSM, the latest app to help you share your emails, photos, videos, phone calls, text messages, Google searches, and trips to the toilet.
The NSA collected emails between United States citizens for three years until the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled that the program was unconstitutional.
The National Security Agency has access to 75 percent of Internet traffic in the United States, according to the Wall Street Journal.
WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison today for his role in leaking more than 700,000 documents to the site, a far cry from the 90-year sentence he could have received.
Facebook is still refusing to pay the researcher who hacked his way onto Mark Zuckerberg’s wall, so the Internet is stepping in.
The NSA’s seemingly unfettered access to American digital communications could put a very serious hurt on the emerging cloud industry.
Editor's Pick Do not forward e-mail or links you receive from OKCupid — you may be handing out direct, unprotected access to your account.
Yet another example of how the very idea of surveillance affects us.
That’s not how data works, folks.
The Department of Homeland Security named McAfee chief technology officer Phyllis Schneck to the position of Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity today. She is the third appointed to the position since its creation in 2011.
