No More Hiding -Google’s Tactics Under Scrutiny
No More Hiding -Google's Tactics Under ScrutinyOn Monday, 50 attorneys general from US states and territories signed onto an antitrust investigation into Google, placing even more pressure on the major tech firm that is already facing intense scrutiny over its market...
Security Demands Up With 5G
Security Demands Up With 5GZhou Hongyi, co-founder of Chinese internet security provider Qihoo 360 Technology, expects the rollout of 5G mobile services and expansion of the industrial internet to open up more opportunities for the company in the world’s second...
Are you ready? — Apple’s Product Announcement
Are you ready? -- Apple's Product AnnouncementApple’s big hardware event for 2019 has wrapped, and, as expected, it brought a bounty of exciting announcements. Of course, the iPhone 11 happened — and, yes, a version is really called the iPhone 11 Pro Max — but there...
Do You Own A Car That Spies On You?
Do You Own A Car That Spies On You?The secret sensors, fitted to all new and used motors sold by the firm’s dealers, pinpoint the vehicle’s exact location. The firm sold more than 170,000 new cars in Britain alone last year. Mercedes will not say how long it has used...
Companies Sharing Your Data with Their Third Party Vendors
Companies Sharing Your Data with Their Third-Party VendorsIt seems that every day there's another news headline about how companies are using consumer data. Facebook was in the news again recently when the FTC slapped it with a $5 billion fine based on investigations...
Security Protections Badly Needed On Routers
Security Protections Badly Needed On RoutersNew testing by Consumer Reports shows important differences in how routers from popular brands handle digital security. Some of the 29 routers we examined this spring and summer build in important safeguards, such as...
Has New Storage Tech Made It Impossible To Securely Erase Old Hard Disks
Has New Storage Tech Made It Impossible To Securely Erase Old Hard DisksIn the olden days, when you wanted to replace your hard drive with a bigger one, you’d run a “secure erase” on it to completely remove any personal data. This would write zeros to the entire disk,...
Why would a Salesman Dis the Product he Sells
Why would a Salesman Dis the Product he SellsCurrent mass market security solutions can’t keep up with all the cybercrime exploits. It turns out that some of their salesman now know the truth about what they are representing.
Prices for Zero Day Attacks – Which commands higher price Apple or Android?
Prices for Zero-Day Attacks - Which commands higher price Apple or Android?For the first time ever, the security exploits broker Zerodium is paying a higher price for zero-day attacks that target Android than it pays for comparable attacks targeting iOS. An updated...
Cloud Services Have a Dark Side When It Comes To Security
Cloud Services Have a Dark Side When It Comes To SecurityMore than half of firms running multicloud environments have been hit with a data breach in the past year, compared with 24% of hybrid cloud organizations and 24% of single-cloud users. To gain a better...