Facebook fixes flaw that could have let hackers delete photos
The speed at which Facebook responded to a reported security vulnerability shows how important photos have become to the site.
Zach Miners | 13 Feb | Read more
The speed at which Facebook responded to a reported security vulnerability shows how important photos have become to the site.
Zach Miners | 13 Feb | Read more
Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor now contemplating a run for U.S. president, may not have privacy high on his agenda.
Zach Miners | 11 Feb | Read more
The Twitter accounts of two more companies -- Newsweek and the International Business Times -- were compromised on Tuesday, showing Twitter's attractiveness to hackers despite its cybersecurity features.
Zach Miners | 11 Feb | Read more
Verizon will soon allow customers to opt out of having an identifier placed on their phones that had alarmed privacy advocates due to its ability to let third parties persistently track customers.
Zach Miners | 31 Jan | Read more
The U.K. may ban online messaging services that offer encryption such as WhatsApp and Apple's iMessage, under surveillance plans laid out by Prime Minister David Cameron.
Zach Miners | 13 Jan | Read more
Supporters of the extremist group known as ISIS or the Islamic State apparently took over the Twitter and YouTube accounts on Monday of the U.S. Central Command, a top military security unit.
Zach Miners | 13 Jan | Read more
The data breach at the Staples office-supply chain may have affected roughly 1.16 million payment cards as criminals deployed malware to point-of-sale systems at 115 stores, the company said Friday.
Zach Miners | 20 Dec | Read more
A federal judge on Friday questioned the strength of a key lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the government's Internet surveillance program known as "upstream" data collection.
Zach Miners | 20 Dec | Read more
Sony Pictures on Wednesday canceled the Dec. 25 release of its controversial comedy, "The Interview," after theater chains decided not to play the film following terrorist threats after a cyber attack.
Zach Miners | 18 Dec | Read more
Google is making progress developing a user-friendly tool for fully encrypting people's messages on their computers, with coding help from Yahoo and a transition to GitHub.
Zach Miners | 17 Dec | Read more
Twitter, hungry for new data to fuel its targeted advertising, will start looking at what other apps its users have downloaded.
Zach Miners | 27 Nov | Read more
Chip-and-PIN payment cards have a strong supporter in the hotbed of payment technologies, with San Francisco's district attorney promoting the new technology as a way to cut down on fraud.
Zach Miners | 26 Nov | Read more
Silicon Valley-based ride-sharing company Uber is looking eastward to inject some wisdom into how it handles user data.
Zach Miners | 21 Nov | Read more
Ramping up efforts to keep its customers' messages safe from snooping, WhatsApp said Tuesday that it now supports end-to-end encryption for messages sent between users.
Zach Miners | 19 Nov | Read more
Facebook lets its users control whether other people can see the information they post, but when it comes to controlling what Facebook itself gets to see, privacy-conscious users are out of luck.
Zach Miners | 15 Nov | Read more