Bill Would Prevent Expansion of Government Hacking Powers
Sen. Ron Wyden, who has been a constant critic of the expansion of government surveillance and systematic weakening of encryption, has co-sponsored a bill that would
Sen. Ron Wyden, who has been a constant critic of the expansion of government surveillance and systematic weakening of encryption, has co-sponsored a bill that would
Google’s new Allo messaging app is less than a day old, but it already has attracted a lot of attention from the security and privacy
Researchers from Princeton University, conducting a privacy survey of the top one million web sites, discovered a variety of tracking and identification techniques in use, including
Alex Howard has been writing and thinking about technology and open data issues for more than a decade, having worked at O’Reilly Radar, the Huffington
By Jessy Irwin In the US, ransomware is earning a significant amount of media attention for shutting down schools and hospitals, but a recent study
The EFF has released a new client, called CertBot, to help site owners quickly obtain HTTPS certificates from the Let’s Encrypt certificate authority, making it
There is an old, high-severity vulnerability in Android that could allow an attacker to gain access to a user’s SMS database and phone history. The
Dutch police have seized servers and other equipment operated by Ennetcom, a communications provider in the Netherlands that operates an encrypted mobile phone service. The Dutch
Ransomware has become a serious threat for both businesses and consumers, and security researchers have had a difficult time addressing it, both in detection and cleanup.