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
Privacy concerns might throw a wrench into companies' plans to make Internet-connected devices mainstream fixtures in the home.
Zach Miners | 11 Jul | Read more
Bitcoin experienced a glitch over the weekend that is expected to be resolved as software clients that handle transaction data are upgraded.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Jul | Read more
Think you can stop Facebook from automatically tagging photos of you by covering your face? Think again.
Oscar Raymundo | 24 Jun | Read more
Uber Technologies' new data collection policy, allowing the ride-hailing company to access a user's location even when the smartphone app is not actively in use, violates the privacy rights and personal safety of U.S. customers, according to a complaint filed Monday by a privacy group.
Grant Gross | 23 Jun | Read more
Nest Labs, Google's home sensing unit, made its long-awaited move into the home security market on Wednesday when it unveiled Nest Cam.
Zach Miners | 18 Jun | Read more
Twitter, to reduce abusive content on its site, is letting users share lists of the people they block, so they can more easily silence those account holders on their own profiles.
Zach Miners | 11 Jun | Read more
Plex gave its users an important security upgrade last week. The home media streaming platform announced all its users are getting free SSL certificates, enabling them to connect to their media over an encrypted HTTPS connection. The new feature is a partnership with certificate authority DigiCert. Plex says the project is "one of the largest implementations of publicly trusted certificates, ever."
Some Facebook users should soon be able to receive encrypted emails from the social networking site if they add PGP public keys to their profiles.
Fred O'Connor | 02 Jun | Read more
Uber Technologies is revising its privacy policy to allow it to access a rider's location when its smartphone app is running in the background, and to send special offers to users' friends and family.
John Ribeiro | 29 May | Read more
A lawsuit that alleges Yahoo's email scanning practices are illegal can proceed as a class action complaint, a development that will shine the spotlight on the Yahoo Mail use of messages' content for advertising purposes.
Zach Miners | 28 May | Read more