Security News

Data privacy: A hot-button issue for Americans one year after GDPR
2019-05-23 05:15

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect in the European Union a year ago this month. GDPR, which gives EU citizens more control over their personal data by mandating how...

Break up Facebook, cofounder says: it’s an un-American monopoly
2019-05-13 10:14

During the 2018 "annus horribilis", users disgusted at privacy flops swore to dump Facebook. But where else is there to go?

Americans overestimate their online safety, despite putting forward little effort
2019-05-08 16:29

A survey of 10,000 Americans found that 90% believe they are doing enough to protect themselves online, though less than half are even doing the bare minimum.

Unprotected Database Exposes Personal Info of 80 Million American Households
2019-04-30 07:03

A team of security researchers has claims to have found a publicly-accessible database that exposes information on more than 80 million U.S. households—nearly 65 percent of the total number of...

NSA: That ginormous effort to slurp up Americans' phone records that Snowden exposed? Ehhh, we don't need that no more
2019-04-26 00:31

An attack of conscience or have the super-snoops got something better now? The NSA's mass-logging of people's phone calls and text messages, at home and abroad – a surveillance program introduced...

Shock revelation as massive American presidential election hack confirmed
2019-04-10 01:30

The student election at Berkeley High School. What did you think we were talking about? A student government election in California has taken a bizarre turn after one of the candidates admitted to...

Ex-Mozilla CTO: I was grilled for three hours at San Francisco airport by US border cops – and I'm an American citizen
2019-04-02 23:25

Techie raises alarm over 'detention' after he refused to unlock work laptop, phone Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal claims he was interrogated for three hours by America's border cops after arriving...

Ex-Mozilla CTO: US border cops demanded I unlock my phone, laptop at SF airport – and I'm an American citizen
2019-04-02 23:25

Techie says he was grilled for three hours after refusing to let agents search his devices Former Mozilla CTO Andreas Gal says he was interrogated for three hours by America's border cops after...

How China Exploits Social Media to Influence American Public
2019-03-08 14:37

The growth of Russia's attempts to manipulate American public opinion since 2015 is well known and documented. At heart, it is basic political propaganda -- which is an accepted tool of...

Potential Privacy Lapse Found in Americans' 2010 Census Data
2019-02-20 02:55

An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from obscured data, but...