William Hague has branded allegations that the UK government's electronic surveillance centre, GCHQ, has been asking the US National Security Agency for data on UK citizens "nonsense" in comments made before a promised explanation later ...
Tags: Computer Products, web security
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
GCHQ is reported to have generated 197 intelligence reports from the National Security Agency UK foreign secretary William Hague has denied claims that the intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) violated the law ...
Tags: Prism Spying, GCHQ
Businesses that receive a court order for data similar to the one reportedly?handed to Verizon?by an intelligence agency have no choice but to comply and to take comfort in their immunity from lawsuits, an expert says.? In April, the ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
A defiant Edward Snowden resurfaced in Hong Kong today vowing to fight any U.S. efforts to extradite him on charges that he leaked classified documents describing two secret government data collection programs. In comments to the South ...
Tags: NSA, Classified Data, Edward Snowden
Pressures from increasingly challenging market and economic conditions in China, which are exacerbated by a regulatory environment that continues to be demanding and at times discriminatory, have led to a clear downturn in profitability and ...
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
Following the leaking of a court order that showed that the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been harvesting mobile phone call data from the carrier Verizon (and possibly others too), new revelations by The Washington Post claim that ...
Tags: Computer Products, Firms, Tech Firms
Few advanced economies can measure up to the potential of emerging markets, which have been forecast to exhibit the fastest growth rates for food and non-alcoholic beverages over the next five years, according to a new report from global ...
Tags: Markets, Agriculture&Food, Drink
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
Much of the architectural coatings market in Europe is in the doldrums at the moment because of a slump in the region's construction sector stemming from a general slowdown in its economy. During the first quarter of this year, European ...
BASF has successfully completed the second phase of registration for REACH under EU chemical law. REACH stands for the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals and represents a fundamental reorganization of ...
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
Sixty per cent of the 500 largest corporations in America are testing or using BlackBerry 10 devices, the Canadian telecommunications firm has said, as phone operators' start stocking its keyboard interfaced Q10 smartphone. "This is a ...
Tags: BB10, Blackberry