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Snowden and the NSA Gets Curiouser and Curiouser

Edward Snowden made a greater effort than originally believed to raise his concerns within the NSA before releasing thousands of classified documents detailing programs that allowed the agency to spy on U.S. citizens ...

Hacks Highlight Zuckerberg’s Cavalier Attitude Toward Security

Facebook top dog Mark Zuckerberg had several of his social media accounts breached and defaced, according to reports that surfaced Sunday ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Banking Trojans Take Backseat to Ransomware

The banking trojan -- a type of malware used to steal credentials for bank accounts -- has been a staple of cyberthieves for years. However, ransomware, which has proven both easy to use and highly successful, has started eroding its popularity ...

Facebook AI Digs Deep Into User Content

Facebook on Wednesday introduced DeepText, an artificial intelligence-fueled text analytics engine ...

Report: Smartphone Ad Blockers Picking Up Steam

At least 419 million people around the world are blocking advertising on their smartphones, according to a report PageFair released Tuesday ...

Federal IT Living in the Floppy Age, Reports GAO

Antiquated IT systems are soaking up federal technology dollars and creating risks for both bureaucrats and citizens, the Government Accountability Office reported last week ...

Twitter Loosens Tweet’s Leash

Twitter on Tuesday announced a number of changes to tweets, including what will be included in a message's 140-character count ...

Versatile iBot Wheelchair to Make a Comeback

Toyota andDEKA Research and Development last week announced an agreement that will revive development of the iBot, a wheelchair that can climb stairs ...

Gang Surrenders Key to TeslaCrypt Ransomware Kingdom

Eset on Wednesday announced that it has fashioned a free tool that victims of all variants of the TeslaCrypt ransomware can use to unlock affected files ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Flaw Puts a Billion Wireless Mice at Risk

Wireless mice and keyboards are the perfect accessories for a world in which devices increasingly are shuffling off their connection coils, but those accessories -- especially untethered rodents -- also can create new threats for those who use them ...

BitTorrent Live Aims to Iron Out Live-Streaming Kinks

BitTorrent on Tuesday announced at the Internet & Television Expo an application called "BitTorrent Live" that applies its distributed file-sharing technology to video streaming ...

Google to Dim Flash Player in Chrome Browser

Google last week announced that it would minimize use of Adobe's Flash Player in its Chrome Web browser by the end of the year by turning off its default status ...

Google Gives iOS Users 1st Crack at Gboard App

Google on Thursday introduced Gboard, an app that combines search with a new soft keyboard for mobile devices running iOS ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Data Breaches Chip Away at IT Pros’ Confidence in Security

The daily barrage of data breach news appears to be eroding confidence in security solutions ...

Reddit Tech Forum May Ban Sites That Circumvent Ad Blockers

A forum on Reddit, /r/ Technology, on Monday announced it was considering blocking links to websites that require visitors to turn off their ad blockers before viewing content on the site ...

iPhone 7 Rumors Blunt Anticipation

It appears there won't be a lot of design changes in the next iPhone, according to a schematic photo NowhereElse published online Monday ...

Futuristic Digital Assistant Viv Takes the Stage

Viv Labs CEO Dag Kittlaus on Monday demonstrated at Disrupt NY 2016 technology that was designed to make people-to-machine interactions as natural as people-to-people interactions ...

SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

ISIS Cyberthreat: Puny but Gaining Power

The Islamic State group's cyberwar capabilities are unsophisticated, but they won't be that way for long ...

India Rejects Apple’s iPhone Retread Plan

India's telecommunications ministry has rejected Apple's proposal to sell refurbished iPhones in the country, Bloomberg reported this week ...

Law Affords More Protection to PINs Than Prints

A federal magistrate in Los Angeles ordered the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to open her phone using her fingerprint so prosecutors could look at the data on it for a case they were working on, the Los Angeles Times reported last week ...

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