Security

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, February 13

US lawmakers introduce two bills to protect email privacy

Beware of hot foreign spies who want to steal your data

It’s no exaggeration that sex buys intellectual property, trade secrets, customer data, and any information or network access of value.

Cyberattacks in West Africa spark debate over online security

Can the enterprise allow employees to use the public cloud?

Groups to push for encryption, secure payments at White House cyber summit

New satellite will watch for, warn about fierce solar weather

NASA/NOAA Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) will offer warning system for big solar magnetic storms

Judge saves bacon of woman who smeared some on window inside police station

How a bug almost ate all of your Facebook photos

Researcher reports he can delete photos from anybody’s account, Facebook patches flaw, he collects $12,500 bounty

VirusTotal tackles false positive malware detections plaguing antivirus and software vendors