A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals For years we always thought Blackberry was the security standard that everyone else was measured by. In April we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have said before, the Internet of Things is going to be a bit of a security ‘challenge’. Here is just one simple example. The security company Rapid7 analyzed a number of home video baby monitors. You know, the kind where you can put a monitor in the bedroom and you or the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently some British Members of Parliament (MPs) are not terribly happy today. It came to light by way of some more leaked documents from Edward Snowden that GCHQ – the British equivalent of the CIA – has been reading the emails of Members of Parliament for years. Given that Parliament is in the middle of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Deadspin reported that thousands of NFL players’ paper and electronic medical records dating back to 2004 were stolen from a trainer’s car when the car was broken in to and a laptop taken. The laptop was unencrypted. The Redskins admitted that a password protected, unencrypted laptop was stolen from a trainer’s locked car in Indianapolis […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone is familiar with all of that unwanted software that manufacturers are paid to install on laptops that they sell. For many people, when they get a new computer, they spend the first many hours installing patches and deleting all of those unwanted applications, which many people lovingly call crapware. Researchers have confirmed that in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk to Google or Facebook and they will tell you that they never met a piece of information that they did not want to add to their databases. More information means better profiles; better profiles mean that they can charge more for ads. But some Silicon Valley firms are rethinking that idea. Silicon Valley startup […]
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