Adware API sends smartmobe data home to Chinese company
Google pulls 500 apps that used the Igexin SDK Mobile developers, listen up: when you pick up that easy-to-use advertising API, make sure it's not snoopware.…
View ArticleFounder of Support Revolution Named As ‘Tech Leaders Award’ Finalist
23 August 2017: Mark Smith, Founder and CEO of Support Revolution, a third-party support and maintenance provider of Oracle and SAP systems, has been named a finalist in this yearrsquo;s Tech Leaders...
View ArticleMyLife Digital partners and presents at MyData 2017 in Helsinki
Helping citizens claim their personal data rights 23rd August 2017, Bath, UK: Consent & personal information management specialists from MyLife Digital will present on the international stage at...
View ArticleVoIP bods Fuze defuse triple whammy of portal security vulnerabilities
Security researchers using the service found a bunch of flaws Messaging provider Fuze has resolved a trio of vulnerabilities in its TPN Handset Portal.…
View ArticleTime on a therapist’s couch yields persistent personality changes
The biggest improvements are to neuroticism and extraversion.
View ArticleAccuWeather: Our app slurped your phone’s location via Wi-Fi but we like...
Totally didn't use that info while totally rewriting its code A day after a security researcher criticized AccuWeather for collecting people's location data – even if its users refused to grant...
View ArticleFeds: Son teaches dad how to sell drugs on AlphaBay, they both get busted
From his iPad, son allegedly searched “safest wallet to transfer tumble.”
View ArticleFTC: We won’t stand in the way of pending Amazon-Whole Foods merger
Agency warns it “may investigate anticompetitive conductrdquo; if needed in future.
View ArticleWikiLeaks a ‘hostile intelligence service’, SS7 spying, Russian money...
Ron Wyden tacks measures onto snoop funding bill Every year, US Congress must pass a new Intelligence Authorization Act to continue funding Uncle Sam's spies for the next 12 months.This year, the act...
View ArticleAccused! Yahoo! hacker! pleads! not! guilty! in! US! court!
It wasn't me nor the FSB, claims Karim Baratov One of four men accused of carrying out the megahack of 500 million Yahoo! email accounts has pleaded not guilty in a San Francisco district court.…
View ArticleAnalysis of 187 documents concludes Exxon “misled the public” on climate change
“Read all of these documents and make up your own mind,” ExxonMobil said.
View ArticleDMARC anti-phishing standard adoption is lagging even in big firms
We could cut down on e-mail spoofing, but we don't Big-name companies are still leaving themselves and their customers open to phishing because they haven't implemented the DMARC message validation...
View ArticleHouse GOP bungles attempt to compare tax code to Legend of Zelda
Factual error has since been fixed on GOP site, but perhaps not the flawed logic.
View ArticleCybersecurity world faces ‘chronic shortage’ of qualified staff
It's the number one problem, according to analyst The number one issue facing cybersecurity firms is a "chronic shortage" of qualified staff.…
View ArticleRick Perry’s “baseload” study released, offers a lifeline to coal, nuclear
The study is two months late, but meets many expectations.
View ArticleIDG Contributor Network: Could AI ever fully replace human customer service?
Wersquo;re already seeing the beginnings of artificial intelligence (AI) as applied to customer service, but just how far could it actually go? The idea is beneficial for both customers and employees...
View ArticleGamestop blames “lagging Xbox One sales” for poor software performance
But "continued demand for Nintendo Switch" drives total revenue upward
View ArticleOpenJDK may tackle Java security gaps with secretive group
To shore up Javarsquo;s security, a private group that operates outside the normal open source community process is under consideration.The proposednbsp;OpenJDK (Java Development Kit) Vulnerability...
View ArticleBrazilians waxed: Uni’s Tor relay node booted after harvesting .onions
Researchers kicked off network for slurping hidden services en masse A university research project in Brazil has had its Tor relay node banned after it was caught harvesting the .onion addresses of...
View ArticleNSA ramps up PR campaign to keep its mass spying powers
Section 702 saves lives, claims spying agency, while continuing to dodge critical question The NSA has begun what is likely to be a determined PR campaign to retain mass spying laws as they head toward...
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