Security

Skeptics find flaws in Carrier IQ application analysis

Video 'proof' is less than convincing, or flat wrong, to some

Security roundup for week ending Dec. 2: Carrier IQ stink, SCADA troubles

Biggest security SNAFUs of the year; more Duqu for you

Carrier IQ’s own marketing claims undercut its defense

Company's marketing info suggests tools can do more than diagnose operational issues

Committee approves cybersharing bill despite privacy concerns

The bill would give the NSA access to private information held by U.S. companies, a critic says

Gartner predictions for 2012: More cloud, consumerization, loss of IT control

IT departments need to adapt now or be swept aside, Gartner warns

Data Protection Convention undergoes a rewrite

The convention is the only international treaty laying down principles for data protection

Cornell Prof: Carrier IQ affair ‘my worst nightmare’

Engineering professor calls smartphone software 'appalling invasion of privacy'

Carrier IQ again asserts no user data is logged or sent

'Vigorously disagrees' it violates wiretap laws with its smartphone software

US intelligence group seeks Machine Learning breakthroughs

IARPA looking for advanced automation research for Machine Learning program

Skype flaw reveals users’ location, file-downloading habits