Feds Issue Bulletin on Google Dorking | Public Intelligence A bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the National Counterterrorism Center earlier this month warns law enforcement and private security personnel that malicious cyber actors… Read More ›
Department of Human Services says its apps need cameras to deliver better services By Richard Chirgwin, 4 May 2014 Australia’s Department of Human Services (DHS) says apparently-excessive permissions sought by its mobile apps are necessary for service delivery, and don’t… Read More ›
EEV: Political Censorship is now an editorial freedom PUBLISHED : Friday, 28 March, 2014, 11:58pm Reuters in New York The First Amendment protects Baidu’s right to advocate for systems of government other than democracy (in China or elsewhere) just as… Read More ›
Google Glass spyware can use users as surveillance drones By John Leyden Security researchers have created prototype Google Glass spyware that is capable of snooping on everything the user is looking at without tipping off victims that anything is amiss…. Read More ›
Published time: March 01, 2014 01:31 Reuters / Kacper Pempel A cyber security firm has reported a “mind boggling” cache of stolen credentials which has been put up for sale on online black markets. A total of… Read More ›
Ray Kurzweil, Google expert in artificial intelligence, predicts that by 2029 robots will make jokes and flirt Nadia Khomani The Observer, Saturday 22 February 2014 16.00 EST Computers will be cleverer than humans by 2029, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google’s director… Read More ›
English and Chinese language queries for terms such as ‘Dalai Lama’ return radically different results on Microsoft search engine Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Tuesday 11 February 2014 16.36 EST A Bing search in Chinese for Bo Xilai,… Read More ›
• Tech giants turn over data from tens of thousands of accounts • Limited disclosure part of transparency deal made last month Spencer Ackerman in Washington and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Monday 3 February 2014 16.40 EST Microsoft,… Read More ›
No sign of them on the Internet – yet By Richard Chirgwin 6th January 2014 04:01 GMT If there are time travellers around, they’re being careful not to leave their fingerprints on the Internet. That’s the conclusion in a paper… Read More ›
EEV: Compromised ? The following is the full link: http://empire.is/ By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 10:34 EST, 15 December 2013 | UPDATED: 11:18 EST, 15 December 2013 The U.S. military can be a sensitive lot when it comes… Read More ›
Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you Every single day, every word you say, every game you play, they’ll be watching you By Iain Thomson Posted in Security, 12th December 2013… Read More ›
By RYAN ABBOTT ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CN) – The federal government is stalking a former contractor because Google auto-completed his intended search: “How do I build a radio controlled airplane?” to the unfortunate query “How do I build a… Read More ›
The long, lurid tradition of public health propaganda By Kevin Hartnett December 08, 2013 A creepy looking Uncle Sam in anti-ACA ads. The Affordable Care Act has prompted a Supreme Court case, polarized… Read More ›
Ian Burrell Wednesday, 6 November 2013 Former F1 president Max Mosley has won a ruling in a French court that Google must prevent its search engine from providing links to nine images showing his involvement in a sadomasochist orgy…. Read More ›
NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows • Tapping fibre-optic cables – see the NSA slide Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013… Read More ›
The Washington Post cites documents leaked by Edward Snowden In 30 days, the NSA gleaned 180 million new records including text, audio and video – and who sent it to whom and when they sent it NSA: Claims that we… Read More ›
Adam Sherwin Thursday, 24 October 2013 Just who is looking over your shoulder when you browse the Internet? Tomorrow, web users will be given a new tool to shine a light on the commercial organisations which track your every… Read More ›
The top Google results for ‘I want to sell my…’ have been ‘kidney,’ ‘eggs’ and ‘hair’ since 2011 Websites have sprung up that allow women to post their hair and breast milk for sale online Long locks of hair can… Read More ›
Unnamed investors said to be lobbying the board for the departure of Microsoft’s co-founder Reuters in New York theguardian.com, Tuesday 1 October 2013 21.12 EDT Bill Gates: hints of pressure for him to step down. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters Three of… Read More ›
Investigation finds firm owned by Google execs keeps jets at Nasa facility There it buys fuel at prices from a half to nearly a fifth of market rate Planes used to jet off to exotic locations across the planet Google… Read More ›
Google has teamed up with Apple’s chairman to launch a new company that will attempt to significantly increase the human lifespan. Google’s chief executive hinted that the new company could look at curing cancer Photo: Bloomberg News <!– remove the whitespace… Read More ›
Yahoo CEO fears defying NSA could mean prison 12 Sep 2013 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with US spy demands for data. Her comments… Read More ›
For all my Friends who had to endure ” Seven men will sink this ship” and ” Pay Attention to Detail ” can you spot the mistake ? Discovered the document while reviewing other documents…. I had to blot out any… Read More ›
• Top-secret files show first evidence of financial relationship • Prism companies include Google and Yahoo, says NSA • Costs were incurred after 2011 Fisa court ruling Ewen MacAskill in New York The Guardian, Thursday 22 August 2013… Read More ›
By NICK DIVITO (CN) – The National Security Agency paid millions of dollars to Internet companies like Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and Facebook to cover costs of its PRISM surveillance program, according to secret documents obtained by The Guardian and… Read More ›
Cory Booker helped found a video aggregation start up site called Waywire Financial disclosure forms show that he appointed Jeff Zucker’s 15-year-old son Andrew on the company’s advisory board Andrew has since quit after his role was publicized Google’s Eric… Read More ›
One-click login hands over keys to Gmail, Google Drive et al, says researcher By Bill Ray Posted in Security, 6th August 2013 13:03 GMT The single-click Google account login for Android apps is a little too convenient for… Read More ›
Add a billionaire Silicon Valley titan to the growing list of public figures victimized by the hacker “Guccifer.” Venture capitalist John Doerr had his AOL account breached several days ago by the same hacker responsible for illegally accessing the e-mails… Read More ›
EEV: Updated:2 AUG 2013 Current article proceeds : Still does not explain how the FBI does not know that quinoa is not a typical bomb making material. Alexia Tsotsis Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the… Read More ›
DuckDuckGo, based in Pennsylvania, does not share user data with sites This means fewer advertisements and results that are not skewed for users Firm saw web traffic double in the wake of Snowden NSA tapping leak By Helen Collis PUBLISHED:… Read More ›
German minister: drop Google if you fear US spying Wednesday Jul 03, 2013 | The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s top security official says Internet users worried about their data being intercepted by U.S. intelligence agencies should stop using… Read More ›
Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years – an event known as singularity Our ‘fragile’ human body parts will be replaced by machines… Read More ›
The only good mobe is a dead mobe By Bill Ray Posted in Security, 14th June 2013 11:44 GMT Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup/Recovery US law enforcement is calling for a mandatory kill switch on all mobiles, enabling the shut… Read More ›
Companies are all compelled by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to hand over any information requested under the law, but they’re not required to make access easier PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges… Read More ›
17:35 07 June 2013 by Hal Hodson For similar stories, visit the Crime and Forensics Topic Guide They’re watching you (Image: Lucas Jackson/Reuters) The US government is watching every digital move that Americans make. More than 115 million people… Read More ›
UK gathering secret intelligence via covert NSA operation Exclusive: UK security agency GCHQ gaining information from world’s biggest internet firms through US-run Prism programme Nick Hopkins guardian.co.uk, Friday 7 June 2013 09.27 EDT Documents show GCHQ (above) has… Read More ›
Microsoft, Google, Apple and Yahoo! and others open their legs servers By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 7th June 2013 00:23 GMT It has been a rough 24 hours for the US National Security Agency. First a leaked… Read More ›
Culture Secretary orders internet crackdown in wake of Woolwich attack and April Jones killing Andrew Grice Thursday, 6 June 2013 Internet and telecom companies will be ordered by the Government to block “harmful” content such as extremist material and pornography … Read More ›
AP investigation finds some agency chiefs relying on secondary private accounts, complicating attempts at record-keeping Associated Press in Washington guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 June 2013 10.57 EDT Google can’t find any reference on the internet to the secret address for… Read More ›
Mobe manufacturer playing long game for end times By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 31st May 2013 19:26 GMT Regcast training : Hyper-V 3.0, VM high availability and disaster recovery Motorola has shown off an electronic authentication… Read More ›
By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press PUBLISHED: 09:06 EST, 1 June 2013 | UPDATED: 09:06 EST, 1 June 2013 Google must comply with the FBI’s warrantless demands for large amounts of customer data, a federal judge has ruled…. Read More ›
26 April 2013 by Mark Anderson Magazine issue 2914. Subscribe and save Thousands of tiny computers that scavenge power from their surroundings could one day be used to monitor your world THOUGHT your smartphone or tablet packed a big… Read More ›
Contact: Markus Waibel mwaibel@ethz.ch 41-446-323-192 ETH Zurich An Internet for robots Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications… Read More ›
Published: 9 February, 2013, 20:01 Edited: 9 February, 2013, 20:01 An Egyptian court has ruled to ban video sharing portal YouTube for one month among the other websites hosting the controversial film trailer that mocked Islam and Prophet Mohammed…. Read More ›
James Tapsfield Sunday, 13 January 2013 David Cameron’s former policy guru has spoken of his “horror” at Downing Street’s inability to control government decisions. Steve Hilton has apparently admitted that the Prime Minister often finds out about policies from… Read More ›
Author : Wang Wei on 1/10/2013 02:48:00 AM Incapsula security study reveals how a simple neglect in managing the administrative password of a small UK site was quickly exploited by Botnet shepherds operating obscurely out of Turkey to hurl large… Read More ›
By John Stevens PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 25 December 2012 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 25 December 2012 One of Britain’s leading inventors has warned that a ‘Google generation’ who rely on the internet for everything are in danger of becoming… Read More ›
Published: 20 December, 2012, 22:24 Edited: 20 December, 2012, 22:24 The most powerful company on the Internet just got a whole lot creepier: a new service from Google merges offline consumer info with online intelligence, allowing advertisers to target… Read More ›
SYDNEY (AFP) A South Pacific island identified on Google Earth and world maps does not exist, according to Australian scientists who went searching for the mystery landmass during a geological expedition. The sizeable phantom island in the… Read More ›
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/10/2012 02:35:00 AM | Guadeloupe is a Caribbean island located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles. Today a hacker going by name “UR0B0R0X” claimed to hack into the “Network Information Center Guadeloupe”… Read More ›
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