A U.K. regulatory group is giving Google 35 days to delete what remains of the data collected by its Street View cars in the U.K., and is using the threat of legal action to compel the company to comply.
Zach Miners |
21 Jun |
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If you're thinking about encrypting email in light of revelations about U.S. government spying, you may be wasting your time.
Zach Miners |
14 Jun |
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Google has denied involvement in a U.S. government surveillance program called Prism since news broke Thursday that the National Security Agency has been accessing the servers of some of the largest Internet companies, but now company executives insist they had never heard of the program.
Zach Miners |
07 Jun |
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Add LinkedIn to the list of Internet companies trying to make themselves safer from cyberattacks by adding two-step authentication.
Zach Miners |
31 May |
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Twitter, in a much-needed move to keep its users safer from cyberattacks, is introducing a more secure login process.
Zach Miners |
22 May |
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More than 50 million users of the daily deals site LivingSocial are being asked to reset their passwords after hackers attacked the company's servers and potentially made off with personal data.
Zach Miners |
26 Apr |
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Getting hacked on Twitter is fast becoming a rite of passage for big corporations, but Tuesday's attack on the Associated Press could be a tipping point and shows that social networks must do more to keep their users safe, security experts said.
Zach Miners |
24 Apr |
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Defense Distributed, the pro-gun nonprofit working to make 3D-printable gun designs freely available to everyone on the Internet, recently inched one step closer toward achieving that goal. The Austin, Texas-based group last week was granted a federal firearms license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Zach Miners |
21 Mar |
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A former Tribune Company employee could face as much as 10 years of jail time over federal charges accusing him of conspiring with members of the hacker group Anonymous to hack into a Tribune website.
Zach Miners |
14 Mar |
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Some thousand-plus Google users have been subject to FBI security information requests since 2009, the company said Tuesday. The data build on Google's already existing tally of government data requests.
Zach Miners |
05 Mar |
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Facebook is rolling out a patch to fix a rare bug in its API that had apparently been leaking users' phone numbers to app developers.
Zach Miners |
27 Feb |
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Twitter is urging its account holders to be smarter with their passwords following two recent attacks by hackers directed at Burger King and Jeep that took control of those accounts.
Zach Miners |
20 Feb |
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Facebook said Friday it had been the target of a sophisticated hacking attack but that it had no evidence any user data had been compromised.
Zach Miners |
15 Feb |
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Twitter has released new numbers showing that the social network complied with government data requests 69 percent of the time in the U.S., as government requests for user information worldwide continue to rise.
Zach Miners |
28 Jan |
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A French court has ordered Twitter to hand over any data that could help authorities there identify people who posted racist and anti-Semitic tweets on its website.
Zach Miners |
25 Jan |
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