Security

Activists release Detekt tool that finds surveillance malware

USB Armory is the Swiss army knife of security devices

US intelligence unit launches $50k speech recognition competition

Director of National Intelligence researchers at IARPA want speech recognition technology that can handle a variety of acoustic situations

This is how Google is dealing with ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

Attackers trading malware for privilege

Access is everything to most criminals

Long-running Android botnet evolves, could pose threat to corporate networks

FTC gets federal court to shut down $120M tech support scam

BitTorrent dismisses security concerns raised about its Sync app

Uber and Google are abusing user data for fun

Recent revelations about Uber and Google suggest that web companies may have their own purposes for your data.

Next year’s DDoS attacks to come from Vietnam, India and Indonesia

Growth in Internet infrastructure, and susceptible users are a problem