Facebook and Microsoft each fielded thousands of requests for user data as part of law enforcement investigations from U.S. authorities in the second half of last year, they said late Friday. Some of those investigations might have ...
While the curious are looking to get their hands on a pair of Google's Glass, companies also may be looking to weave the computerized eyeglasses into their businesses. "We see wearables as the logical next step at work," said Kelly ...
Tags: Google Glass, Wearable Computers
With smart-phone theft reaching epidemic proportions, a coalition of more than 50 law enforcement agencies, scholars, consumer advocates—including Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports—and others is demanding ...
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
Law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Vietnam and the U.K. have disbanded a ring that allegedly sold online credit card details since 2007. The ring, which sold the credit card information through two websites, is said to have caused over ...
Tags: Computer Products, Hackers, Credit Card
Microsoft and the FBI have taken aim at a botnet network based on malware called Citadel that is held responsible for stealing people's online banking information and personal identities. The company, however, warned that because of ...
Tags: Computer Products, Microsoft
Savvy, confident organized retail crime gangs - who steal billions of dollars worth of merchandise each year only to sell that merchandise online or at physical fence locations – continue to test retailers to the core, oftentimes ...
Tags: Retailers, Retail Crime, Apparel&Accessories
The Shanghai International Occupational Uniform Exhibition, sponsored by the National Federation of the Textile and Garment Industry Association and hosted by Ling Shuo Exhibition Company, will be held from June 5-7, 2013, at ...
Tags: Shanghai, Apparel, Occupational Uniform
A tour early this spring to the U.S.-Mexico border for the Arizona agricultural leadership group Project CENTRL at the San Luis, Ariz., Port of Entry was truly an eye-opening experience. This journalist was invited to participate and ...
Tags: Border Tour, Farm Worker
The first three months of 2013 have seen a surge in spam volume, as well as large numbers of samples of the Koobface social networking worm and master boot record (MBR) infecting malware, according to antivirus vendor McAfee. After ...
Tags: McAfee, Spam, MBR Attack
Maine is one step closer to becoming the first state in the nation with a law that would require police to obtain a court-issued search warrant in order to obtain a person's cell-phone location data. The State Legislature, by a vote of ...
Tags: Cell-Phone Tracking, Warrant, Maine
Based on our latest nationally representative survey of adult Internet users, Consumer Reports projected that 1.6 million American consumers were victims of smart C theft in 2012. A variety of possible solutions are being proposed by law ...
Tags: Smart Phone, Consumer Electronics
Texas is poised to become the first state in the U.S. to require law enforcement officers to get a search warrant based on probable cause before they access any electronic communications and customer data stored by a third-party service ...
Buried in a 100-page report issued last week by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property was a recommendation to copy a tactic cyber scammers use to extort money from innocent victims. The IP Commission -- a private ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Moderate Muslims and other people concerned with online radicalization efforts need to counter the extremist propaganda young Muslims are getting on the Web with more positive messages, members of the U.S. Islamic community said. Muslims ...
Tags: Computer Products, software