Malvertising rise pushes ad industry to action
With hidden malware on the rise, the online advertising industry may finally have to get its governance act together.
Robert L. Mitchell | 29 May | Read more
With hidden malware on the rise, the online advertising industry may finally have to get its governance act together.
Robert L. Mitchell | 29 May | Read more
With Europe's top court ordering Google to allow people to basically edit their online personal histories, some wonder what this will mean for finding the truth online.
Sharon Gaudin | 15 May | Read more
It's the how the future is meant to be, isn't it? The good guys need to find a bad guy in a crowd of people, so they start scanning the environment with a camera that is equipped with facial recognition technology. Seconds later, they scan a face that's a positive match with an entry in their criminal database and bam, they've smoked him out.
Grant Hatchimonji | 29 Apr | Read more
The U.S. commercial drone industry is still struggling to get off the ground more than two years after President Obama signed into law a bill that permits the civilian use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) over the country's airspace.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 18 Apr | Read more
Online tracking is on the rise, but efforts to create a practical Do Not Track policy have slowed to a crawl. Meanwhile, users and browser companies are taking matters into their own hands.
Robert L. Mitchell | 02 Apr | Read more
Stories like Jordan Belfort exist beyond the 80s. With the increasingly stringent regulatory requirements to tame the latest wolves of Wall Street, more financial institutes are turning towards proactive monitoring tools to avoid fraud. As big data is becoming a helpful tool to detect and alert potential fraud, the technology is also raising concern over its impact on personal data privacy.
Sheila Lam | 12 Mar | 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
A report Thursday by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board calling the NSA's bulk phone records collection program illegal and mostly useless puts the Obama Administration in an awkward spot.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Jan | Read more
Retailers and banks must move quickly to figure out who should be responsible for better securing the payments system network or risk having Congress decide for them.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Jan | Read more
After six months of contentious debate over U.S. National Security Agency surveillance programs, prompted by leaks from former government contractor Edward Snowden, the third week in December may have marked a major turning point.
Grant Gross | 20 Dec | Read more
Computerworld Hong Kong took an in-depth look at the top ten events that shook the local and global IT world in 2013.
Computerworld Hong Kong staff | 10 Dec | Read more
Apple's App Store, Google's Play store and other app stores are packed with apps that can compromise your security and privacy without you ever knowing anything bad happened. What's a mobile app user to do?
Mike Elgan | 07 Dec | Read more
Amazon's nascent plan to use unmanned drones to deliver packages to customers has already raised strong privacy concerns that could ultimately nip it in the bud.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Dec | Read more
Any effort to rein in the National Security Agency after its widespread spy activities were revealed in leaked documents must focus on more than simply limiting what personal data can be collected.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 19 Nov | Read more
The government's insistence, in its dispute with Lavabit, that cloud service providers hand over their encryption keys when asked, has refocused attention on the issue of key ownership and management in the cloud.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 15 Nov | Read more