The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, the ObamaRead More →
By Clare Baldwin, James Pomfret and Jeremy Wagstaff HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Almost a year after students ended pro-democracy street protests in Hong Kong, they face an online battle againstRead More →
Group also goes after the website of a whale hunting company Online activists associated with Anonymous took down five websites belonging to the Icelandic government and two other related sites,Read More →
Emsisoft researchers creates decryption tool.Fabian Wosar of Emisoft has created a tool capable of decoding files encrypted by the DecryptorMax ransomware, also known as CryptInfinite. The ransomware gets its nameRead More →
One day, as you’re busy surfing on one of your favorite online stores, you stumble upon a pair of chic shades … they’re the very ones you’ve been looking for,Read More →
If you are the type of person that likes to tinker, Linux-based operating systems are for you. You would probably have many hours of fun playing with an Android device orRead More →
The bug is in the website’s “translate a document” feature.Madrid-based Francisco Javier Santiago Vazquez, a security auditor for Mnemo, has discovered a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Google Translate’s interface.Read More →
4.8 million records from a Hong Kong toy company were compromised. I suspect we’re all getting a little bit too conditioned to data breaches lately. They’re in the mainstream newsRead More →
Attackers can unmask users hidden under a VPN connection. A vulnerability into how VPN providers deal with port forwarding exposes the real IP address of some users, say the network securityRead More →
IT’S enough to make Islamic State sit up and take notice, or at the very least get a little hot under the collar. A group associated with activist group AnonymousRead More →
