Safari 10 to turn off Flash by default
Apple is driving another nail in the coffin of Adobe Flash by no longer telling websites that offer both Flash and HTML5 that the plug-in is installed on users' Macs.
John Ribeiro | 15 Jun | Read more
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US company's China employee allegedly stole code to help local government
The U.S. has charged a Chinese national, Xu Jiaqiang, with economic espionage and theft of the source code of a clustered file system belonging to his former U.S. employer, which he is alleged to have stolen for his own benefit and that of the National Health and Family Planning Commission in China.
John Ribeiro | 15 Jun | Read more
Symantec to acquire Blue Coat for $4.65 billion
Security company Symantec is to acquire Web security provider Blue Coat for US$4.65 billion in cash in a deal that will broaden the portfolio of security technologies the combined company can offer customers.
John Ribeiro | 13 Jun | Read more
Twitter locks some accounts after passwords exposed
Twitter said it had locked and called for a password reset of some accounts after an unconfirmed claim of a leak of nearly 33 million usernames and passwords to the social network.
John Ribeiro | 10 Jun | Read more
New Mozilla fund will pay for security audits of open-source code
A new Mozilla fund, called Secure Open Source, aims to provide security audits of open-source code, following the discovery of key security bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock in key pieces of the software.
John Ribeiro | 10 Jun | Read more
Google, Facebook, Yahoo, rights groups oppose FBI expansion of surveillance powers
Google, Facebook and Yahoo and industry and civil rights groups have opposed legislation that would extend the categories of Internet records that the U.S. government can collect without court approval through administrative subpoenas known as National Security Letters.
John Ribeiro | 07 Jun | Read more
Iran orders messaging apps to store data of local users in the country
Iran has ordered messaging apps to transfer data and activity records of Iranian users to local servers within one year, a move that will give the country a greater ability to monitor and censor the online activity of its people.
John Ribeiro | 30 May | Read more
Google aims to block Flash by default for Chrome users, except for 10 white-listed sites
Google aims to make HTML5 the primary experience in Chrome by the fourth quarter of this year, except for a white-list of 10 sites that will run Adobe’s Flash Player.
John Ribeiro | 16 May | Read more
Mozilla wants US to disclose to it first any vulnerability found in Tor by government hackers
Mozilla has asked a court that it should be provided information on a vulnerability in the Tor browser ahead of it being provided to a defendant in a lawsuit, as the browser is based in part on Firefox browser code.
John Ribeiro | 12 May | Read more
Alleged Syrian hacker is extradited to the US on extortion charges
A hacker with alleged connections to members of the Syrian Electronic Army appeared in a Virginia court Tuesday to face charges of participating in an extortion scheme that threatened victims to delete or sell data from compromised computers.
John Ribeiro | 11 May | Read more
Bangladesh central bank hack may be an insider job, says FBI
The FBI has found evidence that at least one employee of Bangladesh’s central bank was involved in the theft of US$81 million from the bank through a complex hack, according to a newspaper report.
John Ribeiro | 10 May | Read more
Qatar National Bank claims customer data released by hackers is authentic
Qatar National Bank has admitted that its systems were hacked but said that the information released online was a combination of data picked up from the attack and from other sources such as social media.
John Ribeiro | 02 May | Read more
Supreme Court approves rule change that expands FBI computer search powers
The Supreme Court has adopted amendments to a rule to give judges the authority to issue warrants to remotely search computers whose locations are concealed using technology.
John Ribeiro | 29 Apr | Read more
US no longer requires Apple's help to crack iPhone in New York case
The U.S. no longer requires Apple’s assistance to unlock an iPhone 5s phone running iOS 7 used by the accused in a drug investigation, stating that an “individual provided the passcode to the iPhone at issue in this case.”
John Ribeiro | 23 Apr | Read more
SpyEye botnet kit developer sentenced to long jail term
Aleksandr Panin, the Russian developer of the SpyEye botnet creation kit, and an associate were on Wednesday sentenced to prison terms by a court in Atlanta, Georgia, for their role in developing and distributing malware that is said to have caused millions of dollars in losses to the financial sector.
John Ribeiro | 21 Apr | Read more