Mozilla tests a true stealth mode for Firefox
Mozilla wants to make private browsing truly private.
Zach Miners | 15 Aug | Read more
Mozilla wants to make private browsing truly private.
Zach Miners | 15 Aug | Read more
Yahoo said Monday it had removed malware from its advertising network, after malicious code there had gone undetected for at least six days.
Zach Miners | 04 Aug | Read more
A New York judge ruled Tuesday that Facebook has no legal standing to challenge the constitutionality of search warrants served on its users, highlighting the limits to online companies' abilities to protect user privacy.
Zach Miners | 22 Jul | Read more
Microsoft is said to be paying $320 million to acquire Adallom, a Cloud security provider whose services might help Microsoft in its new push toward becoming a "Cloud-first" company.
Zach Miners | 21 Jul | Read more
Newly leaked figures reveal that the vast majority of people who exercised their right to be "forgotten" by Google's services in Europe are everyday members of the public, with just 5 percent of requests coming from criminals, politicians and high-profile public figures.
Zach Miners | 15 Jul | Read more
In our last episode of Private I, I explained the basics of public-key (PK) cryptography, a way to scramble messages in a way that only someone possessing a particular key can decrypt, without that key ever having to be publicly disclosed or shared. It's an effective system that has no known theoretical exploits, and currently deployed implementations are considered robust.
Glenn Fleishman | 02 Mar | Read more
Your email address is like your home address: Never give it out unless absolutely necessary.
Rick Broida | 09 Jul | Read more
We lead rich virtual lives on social networking sites like Google+, Facebook, and Twitter. So what happens when real life catches up, and our flesh-and-blood bodies succumb to mortality? For our virtual selves, at least, some concrete answers are available--ways to settle our digital affairs after death, while minimizing hassle and heartache for loved ones.
Do you know what to do if your Twitter account is hacked? Here are four steps to take to regain control of your account and ensure it doesn't happen again.
Kristin Burnham | 25 Apr | Read more
Patrick Heim is the (relatively) new head of Trust & Security at Dropbox. Formerly Chief Trust Officer at Salesforce, he has served as CISO at Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corporation. Heim has worked more than 20 years in the information security field. Heim discusses security and privacy in the arena of consumerized cloud-based tools like those that employees select for business use.
David Geer | 07 Aug | Read more
It's so far been another sorry, sorry year in the technology industry, with big name companies, hot startups and individuals making public mea culpas for their assorted dumb, embarrassing and other regrettable actions.
As the voting period draws an end on PopVote -- the website hosting Hong Kong's unofficial online referendum on political reform--Computerworld Hong Kong talked with its cloud provider CloudFlare and other security vendors to find out the lesson learned from dealing with massive DDoS attacks.
Sheila Lam and Carol Ko | 09 Jul | Read more
As tech companies increasingly rely on analyzing and selling user data to boost revenue, trust is emerging as one of the defining issues of the year for the IT sector.
Marc Ferranti | 06 Mar | Read more
New social media privacy laws that have been enacted in several states around the country, or are in the works, present something of a mixed bag for businesses.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 May | Read more