security: Privacy
Big Data Alchemy: Turn Info Into Money
Data markets could become a new market category. Here, companies buy, sell or trade data for mutual benefit.
Indoor Location Tracking Has Lost Common Sense
Technology to help people navigate indoors is all the rage. But unless you really want to be tracked through the mall, it's largely unnecessary.
Monitoring Vs. Spying: Are Employers Going Too Far?
The email brouhaha that erupted at Harvard recently did not meet my definition of spying. If your company monitors, do it with reasonable cause.
Watching Workers: Where's The Line?
Counting keystrokes might be called for in a data entry context. But tracing the location of a company-issued smartphone during a worker's...
Password Police Cite Evernote Mistakes
Evernote used the wrong security method to store passwords, cryptography experts say. Unfortunately, it's a common error.
Kill Passwords: Hassle-Free Substitute Wanted
Passwords keep proliferating, but do new technologies and approaches offer an alternative? Maybe.
Security Tools Show Many Dots, Few Patterns
Today's security software wastes valuable time by delivering data dumps, rather than focusing on trends. But you can create your own visualizations.
Royal Security Fail: 'May I Speak To Kate?'
The oldest -- and most effective -- social engineering trick in the book remains getting on the phone and impersonating an insider. Ask Kate...
Social Networks Continue Push For Control
The Internet was supposed to facilitate direct connections between individuals and disempower gatekeepers. Instead, it has become a massive...
Should LulzSec Suspect Face Life In Prison?
Computer hacking, identity theft, and fraudulent credit card charges could add up to 30 years to life for alleged Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond.
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Google Glass Alarms Lawmakers
May 17, 2013Members of Congress want answers about the device and its privacy implications.
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Big Data Alchemy: Turn Info Into Money
May 14, 2013Data markets could become a new market category. Here, companies buy, sell or trade data for mutual benefit.
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Google Glass Etiquette: A Work In Progress
May 10, 2013Can you stop recording me now? That's one worry early Google Glass users say they're trying to soothe while creating social norms for the...
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Reputation.com Hacked, Customer Passwords Stolen
May 03, 2013No financial, credit card or account details were exposed, said site, but attackers stole encrypted passwords of "a minority" of customers.
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Fake Firefox Spyware Riles Mozilla
May 01, 2013Surveillance software pretends to be Firefox to escape detection, report claims. Mozilla lawyers take action.
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FBI Seeks Real-Time Facebook, Google Wiretaps
May 01, 2013Government proposal would expand wiretap laws to cover not just service providers, but also the likes of Facebook and Google, backed by escalating...
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Living Social Hack: Big Data Makes A Big Target
May 01, 2013LivingSocial.com is one of the latest in a long line of "big scores" by hackers.
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U.K. 'Big Brother' Bill Blocked -- For Now
April 26, 2013Deputy Prime Minister Clegg kills so-called "snooper's charter" bill, which would allow broad government monitoring of private communications. But...
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Email Without A Warrant? Senators Not Sold
April 26, 2013Update to 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act would require police to demonstrate probable cause before accessing someone's email or stored...
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Education Data: Privacy Backlash Begins
April 26, 2013Privacy and education experts sound alarms about the movement to capture and analyze more and more student data, even as edu tech companies decry...
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Europe Weighs New Data Breach Rules For Critical Companies
Mobile networks, banks, energy companies and other critical infrastructure providers could be required to report all breaches to EU authorities.
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