Security

Mobile Tech’s Bright Future Has a Dark Side

MacRumors forums breach exposes 860,000 accounts

Privacy groups seek FTC probe of Google, Yahoo for exposing data to NSA

Contend that unseen data collection by NSA suggests lack of adequate security on Internet company networks

IBM acquires Fiberlink as mobile-security strategy keystone

Goal is unified mobile-security framework to protect transactions

Dropbox makes its play for business users

The company will launch a product with special controls to keep company data safe

IBM acquires Fiberlink as mobile-security strategy keystone

Goal is unified mobile-security framework to protect transactions

Lawmakers: HealthCare.gov security warnings came before launch

Republican critics of Obamacare say website operators saw memos about a lack of security testing

Belgium, Netherlands investigate alleged NSA spying on bank payments data

The NSA reportedly unlawfully accessed SWIFT payments data

US intelligence wants to radically advance facial recognition software

National Intelligence agency wants to cull facial IDs from massive amounts of video, images

Adobe patches critical vulnerabilities in Flash Player, ColdFusion

The vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized remote code execution or remote read access