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Defending encryption doesn’t mean opposing targeted surveillance
David Omand, the former head of British spy agency GCHQ, has made an extraordinary threat. Speaking earlier this week, he said that if companies such as Apple and Google don’t abandon their end-to-end...
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Facebook: Downtime was caused by an internal boo-boo, not a hack
Facebook’s outage early on Tuesday, which also took out linked services such as Instagram and Tinder, was down to a technical issue caused by the company itself rather than external factors. The outage...
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Facebook launches collaborative threat-detection framework
It might be a bit more difficult for hackers to launch coordinated attacks against several different companies at the same time thanks to a new collaborative threat-detection framework by Facebook...
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Obama’s executive order calls for sharing of security data
President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday designed to spur businesses and the Federal Government to share with each other information related to cybersecurity, hacking and data...
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Hackers stole up to $1B from banks worldwide, Kaspersky says
A gang of hackers has, over the course of a year or more, stolen up to $1 billion from financial institutions around the world, including some in the U.S., according to a new report by cybersecurity...
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Lenovo in hot water over Superfish adware, but dismisses security worries...
Reports from security consultants, media, and Lenovo users indicate that there’s bloatware pre-installed on recent Lenovo Windows PCs that’s a bit more sinister than a set of superfluous ThinkPad...
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Law firms will start sharing security data to prevent attacks
It’s clear that big banks provide a lot of incentive for hackers to launch cyber attacks, given the amount of sensitive data they hold and the cash they oversee. But banks aren’t the only entities...
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Uber discloses data breach that may have affected 50,000 drivers
Uber suffered a data breach in 2014 that affected 50,000 Uber drivers across the U.S., the ride-sharing startup disclosed in a statement on Friday. The company determined on September 17, 2014 that a...
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Tempered Networks wants to secure critical infrastructure so hacks don’t lead...
Although the rise of the internet of things means that organizations could gather enormous quantities of data through the billions of connected devices out there today, the big elephant in the room is...
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What the Ashley Madison hack could mean for national security
The release of information stolen from Ashley Madison, a site devoted to helping married individuals cheat on their spouses, could harm many people. But there is one group in particular — members of...
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