FAQ: What just happened to online privacy?
Inside the rollback of online privacy protection rules.
Stories by Jon Gold
Democracy has died of dysentery: The Voter Suppression Trail
The New York Times and GOP Arcade create the videogame about voting that the internet needed.
DNS provider Dyn gets DDoSed, takes out Twitter, GitHub and plenty others
Some of the biggest names on the internet – including Twitter, GitHub, Etsy, Spotify, the New York Times and the Boston Globe, among many others – were temporarily knocked offline by a DDoS attack that targeted DNS provider Dyn early Friday morning.
Edward Snowden: Privacy can't depend on corporations standing up to the government
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden opened the Free Software Foundation's LibrePlanet 2016 conference on Saturday with a discussion of free software, privacy and security, speaking via video conference from Russia.
Presidential longshot at CTIA 2015 promising nothing less than immortality
Reporter looking for Iron Mike Tyson instead turned found Zoltan Istvan.
Grsecurity will stop issuing patches citing trademark abuse
A major corporation is misusing grsecurity’s trademarks and violating the terms of the GNU Public License – and as a consequence, the leader of the project said Wednesday, grsecurity will stop making its stable patches available to the general public.
Android vulnerabilities are scary, but could be a blessing in disguise
The headlines, as ever, were alarming an Android vulnerability that could compromise a phone with nothing more than a malicious text message? With no user input? That's enough to curdle the blood of the hardiest admin.
Google: Users still aren't getting message about online security
Google researchers say that experts and non-experts go about protecting their digital privacy in very different ways, according to survey results they plan to present at the upcoming <a href="https://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2015/">Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security</a>.
BYOD users worry employers can't keep private data safe
Workplace smartphone and tablet users worry a lot about their personal information remaining private from their employers and only a relatively slim majority trusts their employer to keep that data safe, according to a Harris Poll survey released today, which was commissioned by MDM vendor MobileIron.
Ubuntu still vulnerable to time-twiddling hack
A security flaw in a common Unix software component remains unpatched in one of the most popular Linux distributions, more than a year after an official fix was published.
Cranking up Google Apps for Work, using an actual key
If the password isn't dead, it ought to be, shout headlines. Security experts almost universally despise the use of the password as almost the only form of end-user authentication, but there simply aren't that many alternatives.
Survey: Users hate lack of privacy controls on Internet
Internet users want privacy, but it's increasingly difficult to find, according to the results of a study released today by open-source software company Open-Xchange.
Petition targets Apple over ‘spyware' in OS X Yosemite
Apple should remove "spyware" from its new Yosemite release of OS X, according to an online petition that has received 14,450 signatures as of early Thursday afternoon.
Ig Nobels promise scientific silliness – which is kind of the point
Most of the time, the world of science is dry for very good reasons. The rigor of the scientific process demands extensive observation, experimentation and documentation of every minor facet of every minor phenomenon in nature – with the result that you get a lot of studies that cover only a single aspect of specific protein denaturing under a specific set of circumstances, or some such.
Browser vulnerability caps rough few months for Android security
It has been a summer of discontent for the Android security community, as a host of vulnerabilities large and small has arisen to plague the world's most popular mobile OS. The revelation this week of a cross-site scripting flaw in the default browser installed on large numbers of pre-version 4.4 Android devices is merely the latest entry in a list that makes for unsettling reading.