privacy

Microsoft refuses to hand over emails stored in Ireland, held in contempt by judge

September 10, 2014

Microsoft has urged US District Judge Loretta Preska, the judge presiding over the case that sees the company refusing to hand some emails stored in its Dublin facility over …

Home Depot breach confirmed, stolen info used to change PINs, collect money

September 9, 2014

In a terse statement, and an annoyingly repetitive FAQ, Home Depot has confirmed that it had suffered a breach of its payment data systems. The breach could impact any …

Review your Facebook privacy settings with Privacy Checkup

September 8, 2014

Facebook’s Privacy Checkup tool – informally dubbed “Privacy Dinosaur” – has been made available for use to all users of the popular social …

Coursera privacy issues exposed

September 5, 2014

When well-known lawyer and Stanford law lecturer Jonathan Mayer was invited to teach a course on government surveillance on Coursera, the popular online website offering free …

91% of Americans have privacy concerns

September 5, 2014

A new survey, conducted by Harris Poll among 2,100 U.S. adults and developed by WP Engine, discovered that 91% of Americans are concerned about their online privacy, while …

Cellphone surveillance systems can track almost anybody

August 26, 2014

The surveillance tech industry is booming, and we should be worried about it. Poorly regulated and exceedingly secretive, the companies that create surveillance solutions for …

NSA’s metadata search engine used by US, foreign agencies

August 26, 2014

The NSA has secretly built a “Google-like” search engine to be used by various US government agencies and intelligence agencies of the Five Eyes countries to sift …

Researchers exploit flaw to tie Secret users to their secrets

August 25, 2014

The secrets you share on Secret, the popular app that allows people to share messages anonymously within their circle of friends, friends of friends, and publicly, can be …

CHS hackers exploited the Heartbleed bug

August 20, 2014

The recent massive Community Health Systems breach, which resulted in the compromise of personal information of some 4.5 million patients, was executed by exploiting the …

Coder tries shaming apps and site owners into using HTTPS

August 19, 2014

How can we force website owners and software developers to start using HTTPS? Coder Tony Webster believes shaming might be the right answer. To that point, he created a …

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