Looking back at 2015, many newsgroups showed events like the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon, terrorist attacks in San Bernandino or the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina as proof of a year of violent escalation. One viral story reported there was more than one “mass shooting” for every day of the year. Despite […]

Last week’s Windows 8 launch wasn’t just a major product release for Microsoft. It seems to have been a banner day for the government-funded hackers who take Microsoft’s software apart, too. On Tuesday the French firm Vupen, whose researchers develop software hacking techniques and sell them to government agency customers, announced that it had already […]

Business and colleges barred from requesting access to employees, students personal social media accounts under new law Sept. 28–SACRAMENTO — California, home to many of the world’s social media companies, now has the nation’s strictest privacy laws preventing your boss or college from surfing through the personal information you post on sites like Facebook. It […]

SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION: It jeopardizes health, career and the job once loved by the victim BRODIE Panlock was a waitress working at a café in Australia. Her mother described her as a “beautiful girl who was full of compassion”. Brodie never told her mother that she was viciously bullied by her co-workers. She was just 19 […]

Several years ago, the National Security Agency wasted millions on a circuit-switched approach to mobile security strategy. With help from the Department of Defense, the NSA is doing things differently now. Enterprise CIOs can learn a few things from the effort, too. Try this thought experiment. You want to provide smartphones, iPads and other mobile […]

A hacker group says it obtained millions of identification numbers from iPhones, iPads and other devices from an FBI laptop. The agency denies having the data. WASHINGTON — A hacker group’s claim that it obtained from an FBI laptop a file with more than 12 million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and other devices […]