It’s clear that big banks provide a lot of incentive for hackers to launch cyber attacks, given the amount of sensitive data they hold and the cash they oversee. But banks aren’t… Read more »
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data breaches for… Read more »
David Omand, the former head of British spy agency GCHQ, has made an extraordinary threat. Speaking earlier this week, he said that if companies such as Apple and Google don’t abandon… Read more »
At a conference in Hamberg Germany this weekend, biometrics researcher Jan Krisller demonstrated how he spoofed a politician’s fingerprint using photos taken by a “standard photo camera.” Krissler speculated that politicians might even… Read more »
It has been a dramatic 24 hours for Snapchat, which had some internal emails leaked last night via the Sony hack. Sony Entertainment’s CEO, Michael Lynton, sits on Snapchat’s board. There’s been dozens… Read more »
The hackers are claiming that a searchable database will soon go live, featuring hundreds of thousands of images that the senders hoped were self-destructing. Read more »
From how we now understand the celebrity nude selfie hacks to have taken place, we can start to take away certain lessons about our own vulnerability — and think about how… Read more »
Want to keep your searches private while still using familiar services like Google and Bing? Disconnect has just made that a bit easier for you. Read more »
Google is facing trial by media in the UK where leading news outlets are making absurd arguments over its positions about a controversy involving browser cookies. Read more »