Security

Google Android chief Sundar Pichai says Android not designed to be safe

Earlier this week, Google Android chief Sundar Pichai explained that Android is designed to be open more than it's designed to be safe.

Enterprises advised to exercise care in using Apple products

5 Things You Need to Know About Bluetooth Low Energy

Bloomberg clamps down with data-access policies after scandal

The financial data and news company develops in-house access controls after controversy over journalists seeing client information

Security researchers urge tech companies to explain their cryptographic choices

Researchers signed an open letter outlining 10 transparency principles for companies to regain user trust following surveillance revelations

CIA chief: Internet of Things, infrastructure attacks are big security headaches

CIA Director John Brennan says catalog of front-burner issues CIA faces is truly staggering

This story is about violent vigilantism, not ‘sexting’

Press simply cannot resist whipping technology and selling ‘sex’

Cloud security concerns are overblown, experts say

RSA panel compares enterprise fears of cloud security to early, now eased, concerns about virtualization technology

US government seeks to hold phone data beyond five-year limit

The government says it needs to hold the data because of various lawsuits challenging its collection

Windows 7, XP vulnerabilites rose in 2013, security firm finds

Secunia analyzed reported vulnerabilites in the top 50 most-used software products