October 22, 2015 Norwegian security probes conclude: no eavesdropping found in central Oslo Norway's domestic intelligence agency says there are no illegal listening devices in central Oslo, near government buildings, Parliament or elsewhere, as claimed last year by a local newspaper.
October 22, 2015 Apple, Google tell Obama he's wrong about encryption A who's who of Silicon Valley tech giants, computer-security experts and advocacy groups asked President Barack Obama to reject police "backdoors" for smartphone and computer encryption in an open letter sent May 19. "We urge you to reject any proposal that U.S. companies deliberately weaken the security of their products," said
October 22, 2015 Be careful, Mom and Dad: You might be 'over-sharenting' In just a few more years, children born after the dawn of Facebook and YouTube will become teenagers—and many of them will find their entire lives already archived online.
October 22, 2015 Wikipedia is suing the NSA for its mass surveillance program The Wikimedia Foundation filed suit against the National Security Agency (NSA) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) earlier today, announcing the lawsuit on
October 22, 2015 Infected Web ads use Flash flaws to spread ransomware It's a perfect storm of Internet iniquity: A three-month-old malvertising campaign is exploiting two recently discovered Adobe Flash Player flaws to infect people's computers with ransomware.
October 22, 2015 China tightens Web controls, requires written pledge to avoid 'unhealthy' activity online China announced Wednesday that users of blogs and chat rooms will be required to register their names with operators and promise in writing to avoid challenging the communist political system, further tightening control over Internet use.
October 22, 2015 US gas stations may be ripe for hacking In today's entry of "things you didn't know could be hacked," let's discuss gas stations.
October 22, 2015 Turkey threatens to ban Twitter (again) Turkey-based Twitter users could soon be staring at blank screens again after the government threatened to block the social media service for the second time in less than a year.
October 22, 2015 Hacker 'reconstructs' German politician's fingerprint from photos Fingerprint-based biometric technology is used to secure everything from iPhones to safes. Now, a member of the Chaos Computer Club, a European hacker network, claims to have replicated the fingerprint of German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen using photographs of the politician's thumb,
October 22, 2015 5 worst security fails of 2014 Here's hoping that 2014's hard-learned lessons lead to a less eventful 2015. In the meantime, here are our top five security fails of the past year.
