Cybercrime

Mozilla unmasks security flaw in Persona, warns other OpenID implementers

OpenID-related vulnerability could have allowed attackers to impersonate users on websites using Mozilla Persona authentication

Lawmaker: Snowden may have had help with leaks

Snowden's access to NSA data raises questions, the chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee says

Yahoo abandons T-shirt rewards for vulnerability information

Starting Oct. 31, Yahoo will pay between US$150 to $15,000 for flaws, in line with bounties paid by Facebook and Google

US demanded access to encryption keys of email provider Lavabit

Lavabit said in August it was shutting down its service rather than be complicit in crimes against Americans

FBI busts operator of Silk Road, seizes $3.6M in Bitcoins

'Dread Pirate Roberts' accused of running site that generated $1.2 billion trafficking drugs, illegal substances

Senator vows fierce defense of NSA data collection, surveillance programs

The NSA's telephone records collection program is necessary to keep the U.S. safe from terrorism, some lawmakers say

US DOJ opposes company requests to publish surveillance statistics

Allowing companies to report surveillance requests would drive suspects to other services, officials say

Solving the customer experience riddle: A Q&A with two experts

Yahoo concerned that release of redacted FISA papers may mislead

The company had earlier asked the court to release certain documents to show it resisted NSA data collection

More NSA leaks to come, Guardian says

Journalists from the British paper provide new details around the process for publishing leaks