You may have heard that the FTC this week sent out a dozen strongly worded letters to apps using the SilverPush framework. The FTC politely told twelve app developers that they needed to let users know that SilverPush was collecting data and selling...
Advertising’s hottest surveillance software is surprisingly legal
You may have heard that the FTC this week sent out a dozen strongly worded letters to apps using the SilverPush framework. The FTC politely told twelve app developers that they needed to let users know that SilverPush was collecting data and selling...
As cyber-geddon stories go, Middle Eastern countries hacking into US dams or power grids and making stuff go haywire sounds like the plot for a not-so-subtly racist Hollywood scare flick. But that's the story we got when news outlets, citing unnamed...
The first time I went anywhere near the RSA information security conference in San Francisco, it was by way of a prank.
Two things I love to cover are computer crime and and enterprise security, so when I met friends for drinks at a downtown hotel b...
When I read about MasterCard's plan to do selfie security with purchases, I wondered what the first massive breach of biometric data is going to look like. Unlike passwords, biometrics such as face mapping, fingerprints, and iris scans can't be chang...
If you had a loved one in the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center during its recent ransomware siege, would you be mad at the digital extortionists or the hospital? For me, the answer would be both.
Hollywood Presbyterian declared a state of emerg...
I got a little too excited when the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) chief called Adblock Plus (ABP) "an unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes." I immediately wanted to know when the next coven meeting was and how many stars to...
Correction: This story states that the FAA's new drone registry database is searchable and exposes the private data of citizens and hobbyists. Currently, this is incorrect. The drone registry is not searchable at this time, as stated by the FAA's web...
Netflix has started blocking users who try to bypass country-based content restrictions by using a VPN, beginning its enforcement last week with Australian subscribers. The problem is, by forcing customers to turn off their VPN, Netflix is putting th...
On Feb. 29th, thousands of cybersecurity professionals will flood San Francisco's Moscone Center for RSA Conference, one of the security industry's largest and most authoritative events. This week, RSA announced its 20 keynote speakers, and if you he...
In the grab bag of Google/Alphabet's big projects for 2016 is Project Abacus. It's basically the company's plot to kill the password in cold blood, by replacing it with smartphone user authentication via an uncrackable collection of biometric reading...