EFF delves into privacy practices of Apple, Google, Twitter, and others
Our digital lives are leaving data trails through social networking sites, email providers, Internet service providers, and mobile apps. But which companies fight the hardest …
Microsoft’s anti-surveillance website was hacked
Digital Constitution – a dedicated website Microsoft set up to keep users informed of its efforts to counter US government’s attempts to access customer emails the …
Why LinkedIn chose to keep its bug bounty program private
Bug bounty programs have become de rigueur for tech and Internet companies that want to improve the security of their products by (partly) outsourcing bug discovery. But while …
Reddit announces switch to HTTPS-only
With a short note posted on the site’s developers subreddit, reddit – the so-called “front page of the internet” – has announced that starting with …
Insider threat: A crack in the organization wall
Vormetric announced the European findings of a survey conducted by Harris Poll in fall 2014 among 818 enterprise IT decision makers (ITDMs) in various countries, including 204 …
IoT developers concerned about privacy and data protection
An impressive 65 percent of Internet of Things (IoT) apps in production today are generating real revenue. The study results, undertaken by Progress and Harbor Research, also …
Unpatched OS X, iOS flaws allow password, token theft from keychain, apps
Six researchers from Indiana University Bloomington, Peking University and Georgia Tech have recently published a paper in which they detail the existence of critical security …
Let’s Encrypt CA to issue its first cert
Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority (CA) set up by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University …
Zero Trust approach to network security
Zero Trust is an alternative security model that addresses the shortcomings of failing perimeter-centric strategies by removing the assumption of trust.With Zero Trust there …
86.2 million phone scam calls delivered each month in the U.S.
Phone fraud continues to threaten enterprises across industries and borders, with the leading financial institutions’ call centers exposed to more than $9 million to potential …
Keyboard app bug puts millions of Samsung mobile users at risk, researcher claims
A vulnerability in the Swift keyboard, which comes pre-installed on Samsung mobile devices, can be exploited by remote attackers to secretly install malicious apps, access the …
Exposing cyberattacks targeting government networks in Southeast Asia
Palo Alto Networks uncovered a series of potentially state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting government and military organizations in countries throughout Southeast Asia. Help …