Security

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, April 8

Widespread outages hit Windows 8/8.1 Metro Mail, Windows Live Mail, Windows Phone 8.1 mail

Microsoft confirms that the mail has been experiencing problems for at least six hours

US drug enforcement amassed bulk phone records for decades

Massachusetts police department pays $500 CryptoLocker ransom

Backup on an external hard drive was corrupted, too

HP tells cybersecurity customers to focus on people and processes

Welcome to the Internet of Things. Please check your privacy at the door.

Several things can happen to your IoT data, and most of them are bad. Here are the biggest things you need to worry about.

FBI: Be wary about Web searches for federal information

FBI warns about fake government Website services collecting personal info, money

RedSeal gets new funding, executives

With $17M in new investment, long-time chairman takes over as CEO

Startup Soha Systems reveals cloud security service

Soha Cloud secures apps quickly with minimal network changes

Researchers show that IoT devices are not designed with security in mind