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Credit to Author: Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)| Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:00:36 +0000
Making predictions is a tricky business and in no area more so than in the area of rapidly developing technology. The pace of change continues to accelerate and the nature of innovation is such that entrepreneurs, as well as criminals are continually searching for “the next big thing” to either benefit or to blight our…
Credit to Author: Michael Miley| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:00:32 +0000
Ransomware is the gift that keeps on giving for cybercriminals. Google research revealed recently that online extortionists have managed to grab more than $25 million from their victims over the past two years. Other estimates suggest businesses and netizens handed over as much as $1 billion in 2016 alone. Whatever the final figure, it’s clear…
Credit to Author: Sophos Italia| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:35:43 +0000
Improvvisamente, i browser web sono tornati ad essere interessanti per la crescente attenzione degli utenti nei confronti della privacy. Apple ha utilizzato la sua Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) per annunciare un paio di nuove funzionalità per Safari su macOS High Sierra previsto entro la fine di quest’anno. La prima vedrà il browser in grado di […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=39957&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/8SO_aVEkT5Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 08:26:00 -0700
Well, well, well, the NSA may not waltz away legally unscathed after spying on Americans’ private communications due to the dogged determination of the Wikimedia Foundation, the ACLU, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and eight other co-plaintiffs.
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to give Wikimedia a chance to legally challenge the NSA’s mass surveillance as being unconstitutional. The government has previously argued that the NSA’s Upstream warrantless spying is authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Thanks to Upstream surveillance, the NSA sucks up and searches through American’s international internet communications.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 04:00:00 -0700
When most IT execs hear the term “corporate privacy policy,” they think about what their company promises its consumer customers in policies such as those from LinkedIn, Uber and Evernote. But what about policies in contracts entered into with businesses that will handle data from or about your company? Those are rare, and that is a massive security hole.
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Credit to Author: Michael Kan| Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 07:01:00 -0700
The U.S. National Security Agency will no longer sift through emails, texts and other internet communications that mention targets of surveillance.
The change, which the NSA announced on Friday, stops a controversial tactic that critics said violated U.S. citizens’ privacy rights.
The practice involved flagging communications where a foreign surveillance target was mentioned, even if that target wasn’t involved in the conversation. Friday’s announcement means the NSA will stop collecting this data.
“Instead, this surveillance will now be limited to only those communications that are directly ‘to’ or ‘from’ a foreign intelligence target,” the NSA said in a statement.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0700
Digital privacy invasion is more than a theoretical or actual threat to our freedoms. It’s also a huge distraction.
Take MIT genius Steven Smith. He’s recently taken time away from his specialties of radar, sonar, and signal processing at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory to automate the pollution of his family’s web traffic with thousands of arbitrary searches and sites.
His code essentially lies about internet activity to whomever is listening.
The software is an artful liar. According to a piece in The Atlantic, Smith’s algorithm uses web activity-spoofing software called PhantomJS to conduct searches in a way and on a timeline that mimics normal human online behavior.
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Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:00:02 +0000
It’s almost here – April 18, tax day in the U.S. As businesses and employees prepare their tax returns, cybercriminals are once again ramping up efforts to steal this information, and they are getting more intelligent every year. How it works Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have been on the rise since 2016, and…