If you are basking in the convenience of doing an online bank transfer at a coffee house while spooning the cream off a designer special, consider the tradeoff, which is placing your personal data at risk. Also consider yourself warned by ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Wi-Fi
Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
Tags: electricity meters, energy distribution, power grids, security flaws
Twitter has implemented new security measures that should reduce eavesdropping on communications between its servers and users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead. The company has implemented “perfect ...
Intelligent LED street lights that are capable of eavesdropping pedestrian conversation from U.S. based company Intellistreets have been installed in Las Vegas City Hall, according to a Daily Mail report. The new lights are largely funded ...
Tags: LED Street Lights, Voice Recording
Intelligence agencies across Europe have been developing their own mass internet and phone surveillance capabilities in partnership with the UK's GCHQ electronic intelligence agency. That is the latest claim to arise from the cache of US ...
Tags: Phone, smartphone
Today marks internet video calling tool Skype's 10th year since its launch in 2003. Using the anniversary as a launch-pad, Skype has also announced that 3D video calls are under development. Further reading Cisco goes to court to annul ...
Tags: Skype, Computer Products, software
Google has bowed to concerns over unauthorised eavesdropping by announcing that it will start to automatically encrypt data stored in Google Cloud Storage. The company says that it will use 128-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) ...
Tags: Google, Computer Products, webservice, Google Cloud
An audit of US National Security Agency eavesdropping has found that the security agency routinely violates its own privacy rules. According to a leaked, supposedly top secret audit, the NSA violated its on privacy policies 2,776 times in ...
Tags: Computer Products, sfotware
SnoopWall has filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.gov). This utility patent has been filed under the international patent countries treaty (PCT) for worldwide protection of the SnoopWall technology. ...
One of Britain's most senior security officials will review a cybersecurity centre operated by Chinese company Huawei after concerns that the telecommunications firm - which is playing an increasingly large role in Britain's internet ...
Tags: Huawei, Cyber Centre
British spy agency GCHQ is tapping global internet traffic and phone calls, processing information from around the world which it is sharing with its opposite number in the US, the National Security Agency (NSA). That is the latest ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Microsoft is close to another restructuring that could see several senior managers moved sideways or leaving the company as it reduces its number of business units from eight to four. The restructuring is being prepared by a small group ...
Tags: Microsoft, Restructuring, Senior Manager
Data encryption could help enterprises protect their sensitive information against mass surveillance by governments, as well as guard against unauthorized access by ill-intended third parties, but the correct implementation and use of data ...
Tags: Data encryption, Spy-Proof, Surveillance
Cisco has raised the stakes in its fight against Microsoft's $8.5bn (£5.3bn) acquisition of Skype, claiming that European Union regulators who approved the deal have effectively created a monopoly in internet voice communications. ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Two researchers from security firm Imperva have devised new techniques that could allow attackers to extract sensitive information from users' encrypted Web traffic. The new methods build on those used in an attack called CRIME revealed ...
Tags: Computer Products, software