Fake news, online banking thefts and data breaches: It's no wonder that trust in the internet is at an all-time low. But don't worry: The Internet Society has a five-step plan for restoring faith in the network of networks.
Peter Sayer |
23 Nov |
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In a twist, thieves in the U.K. hacked personal data to steal high-end smartphones, rather than hacking phones to steal personal data.
Peter Sayer |
19 Nov |
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Regulations to protect people from falling drones moved a little closer to takeoff at the European Parliament on Thursday.
Peter Sayer |
11 Nov |
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When the French government quietly announced, in the middle of a holiday weekend, the merging of two files to create a megadatabase holding the biometrics of almost 60 million French citizens, it was clearly hoping to avoid an outcry.
Peter Sayer |
09 Nov |
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The banking arm of U.K. supermarket chain Tesco has suspended online payments for its 136,000 checking account customers following a spate of fraud.
Peter Sayer |
08 Nov |
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The French Constitutional Council has taken another look at a new security law it waved through in July 2015, and found it wanting.
Peter Sayer |
24 Oct |
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The U.K.'s spy agencies breached the European Convention on Human Rights for years by secretly collecting almost everything about British citizens' communications except their content, a U.K. court has ruled.
Peter Sayer |
18 Oct |
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European Union privacy watchdogs are concerned by reports that Yahoo has been secretly scanning its users' email at the request of U.S. intelligence services.
Peter Sayer |
07 Oct |
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Banks stopped three new attempts to abuse the Swift financial transfer network this summer, its CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt said Monday, as he announced Swift's plan to impose tighter security controls on its customers.
Peter Sayer |
28 Sep |
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Today's savvy bank robbers don't break into vaults looking for gold or diamonds: They're more likely to be hacking networks looking for access to the Swift payment system.
Peter Sayer |
27 Sep |
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Swift is introducing a new reporting system to help banks identify fraudulent payments made over its financial transfer network -- but the reports will arrive up to a day too late to stop them all.
Peter Sayer |
20 Sep |
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The U.K. government has published a report on the staggering scale of surveillance in the country last year.
Peter Sayer |
10 Sep |
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Bernard Barbier, a former head of the French signals intelligence service, shared a few stories with students of CentraleSupélec, the elite engineering school from which he graduated in 1976, at a symposium this summer.
Peter Sayer |
09 Sep |
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An agreement to send Canadian authorities passenger name record (PNR) data for flights from the European Union cannot be entered into in its current form, a top European Union judge has said.
Peter Sayer |
09 Sep |
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In cryptography, the "man in the middle" is usually an attacker -- but when Keezel wants to get between you and the Wi-Fi connection in your hotel or your home, it's for your own good.
Peter Sayer |
02 Sep |
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