Security

Chomsky, Gellman talk Big Data at MIT Conference

Famed philosopher and journalist discuss Big Data, who's to blame for its weaknesses, and what it means for our future

Rise seen in use of Google service for mobile botnets

Google Cloud Messaging serving as conduit for sending data from C&C servers

Stratfor hacker Jeremy Hammond given 10 year sentence

Chomsky: Fight back against NSA spying or be ‘complicit’

US citizens' freedoms were 'won by popular struggle' and should be defended the same way, the MIT professor and linguist says

After Healthcare.gov debacle, group pushes for tests of NIST cybersecurity framework

More needs to be done to identify what adoption of framework really means, ISA says

Facebook says yes, your posts can be used for ads

The company amended its privacy policies Friday, reworking some language related to advertising with children

Judge sentences Anonymous hacker to 10 years in prison

Judge rejects arguments that Hammond acted for public good

iPhone 6 rumor rollup for the week ending Nov. 15

iPhone big screen or big screens, curvaceous, and pressured

Here’s a fake virus to get you out of work early

An ad agency has launched a simple service that makes your PC look like it's suffered a virus so debilitating that you'll just have to leave work early and head to happy hour.

The best data security offense is a good defense