Apple, Microsoft, and Google are among 10 top tech companies that this week <a href="http://reformgs.tumblr.com/post/102821955852/open-letter-to-the-us-senate">signed onto a letter</a> backing passage of a bill that would curtail bulk collection of Internet metadata by government agencies.
Lucas Mearian |
19 Nov |
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The world's 19 biggest automakers <a href="https://www.globalautomakers.org/topic/privacy">have agreed to principles</a> they say will protect driver privacy in an electronic age where in-vehicle computers collect everything from location and speed to what smartphone you use.
Lucas Mearian |
14 Nov |
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Kickstarter <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/augustgermar/anonabox-a-tor-hardware-router?ref=nav_search">has suspended the crowdfunding campaign</a> of a Tor-enabling wireless router that gained widespread media attention as a privacy device for the masses but left others questioning its legitimacy.
Lucas Mearian |
18 Oct |
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FBI director James Comey said this week that<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2834996/fbi-director-calls-for-greater-police-access-to-communications.html">tech companies should not be allowed to put cryptographic locks on mobile devices</a> so they can't be accessed by U.S. intelligence agencies.
Lucas Mearian |
18 Oct |
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In recent weeks, there have been data breaches involving passwords and email addresses from JP Morgan Chase, celebrity nude photos from <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2602387/the-fappening-icloud-users-beware.html">Apple's iCloud</a>, more than 70,000 images from Snapchat and <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2825999/dropbox-dismisses-claims-of-hack-affecting-7m-accounts.html">now a new alleged hack at Dropbox</a> -- a claim it denies.
Lucas Mearian |
16 Oct |
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While hackers say they have broken into a giant Snapchat database filled with Snapchat photos and videos and have been collecting files for years, the content messaging service denies it was hacked.
Lucas Mearian |
11 Oct |
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One mobile device is wiped every three minutes as part of a corporate security policy, according to a study of 130,000 devices managed by MaaS360, the Fiberlink mobile device management platform.
Lucas Mearian |
24 Sep |
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Once mobile devices are connected to car infotainment systems and cars are connected to the Internet, vehicles will become a rich source of data for manufacturers, marketers, insurance providers and the government. Oh, and they'll be a lucrative target for hackers, too.
Lucas Mearian |
18 Sep |
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A report to be released at Black Hat this week will reveal which vehicles are more susceptible to hackers.
Lucas Mearian |
05 Aug |
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SoSecure has created a solid-state drive that is controlled remotely via a smartphone app, which monitors everything from backups to battery power and can delete all data from the drive.
Lucas Mearian |
11 Jun |
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SanDisk today announced its SanDisk X300s SSD line-up, which uses TCG Opal 2.0 and Microsoft Encrypted Hard Drive hardware-based encryption, coupled with a new SSD administration dashboard.
Lucas Mearian |
14 May |
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Developers who were able to bypass Dropbox's security by reverse-engineering Python applications -- the language used by the cloud storage provider -- described their technique in a published paper.
Lucas Mearian |
28 Aug |
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While online data storage services claim your data is encrypted, there are no guarantees. And with government surveillance programs crawling the web for metadata and email, there's little doubt online privacy can exist without strong safeguards.
Lucas Mearian |
13 Aug |
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Mobile malware attacks -- most of them aimed at Android devices -- are up six-fold since last year, an increase due mainly to the use of free mobile apps from sketchy vendors, according to studies by McAfee and Juniper Networks.
Lucas Mearian |
12 Jul |
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Is your car watching your every move? Can the cable company track your DVR habits?
Lucas Mearian |
20 Jun |
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