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McAfee sideshow eclipses Defcon’s real security breakthroughs
Credit: Reuters/Jorge Dan Lopez John McAfee's decision to speak at last weekend's Defcon hacking conference on Friday was one of the worst-kept secrets in Las Vegas.
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If Yahoo gets it right, then the end-to-end email encryption the Internet company is promising would be a big help to companies concerned with privacy in the use of webmail, experts say. Alex Stamos,...
View ArticleDozens of US tech firms violate EU privacy promises
Thirty U.S. data brokers and data management firms, including Adobe Systems, AOL, and Salesforce.com, are violating privacy promises they've made regarding their handling of the personal information of...
View ArticleFirefox OS to outdo Android with granular application permissions
Future versions of the Firefox OS mobile platform will allow users to control application-specific permissions, a feature with both privacy and security benefits that's missing on Android. Firefox OS...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: ‘Our technology companies are not part of our government’
Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a "global compact" on surveillance and the use of collected data, saying the U.S. isn't the only country that does it and American technology...
View ArticleHome Depot confirms breach of its payment systems
Home Depot said Monday that its payment systems had been breached, potentially affecting any customers who shopped at its stores in the United States and Canada since April. There's no evidence yet...
View ArticleTech industry groups ask U.S. Senate to ‘swiftly pass’ NSA curbs
Tech industry organizations have written a letter to leaders in the U.S. Senate, to ask them to swiftly pass the USA Freedom Act, legislation that is expected to end the collection of bulk domestic...
View ArticleFive million Gmail addresses and passwords dumped online
An archive containing nearly 5 million Gmail addresses and plain text passwords was posted Tuesday on an online forum, but the data is old and likely sourced from multiple data breaches according to...
View ArticleYahoo says it faced $250,000 daily fines for defying U.S. surveillance requests
The U.S. government once threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to assist with its surveillance efforts, Yahoo said Thursday. Yahoo said it was threatened with the fines after it...
View ArticleData protection authorities find privacy lapses in majority of mobile apps
Many mobile apps request too many permissions and don't explain how they collect users' personal information, a study of 1,211 popular apps by the Global Privacy Enforcement Network has found. The...
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