Security

Surveillance court orders transparency review of its NSA opinions

The court tells government agencies to review its own orders related to the legality of telephone records collection

New Java feature aims to manage multiple version problems

Rogue hardware used in attempted cyberheist at Santander bank branch

One criminal impersonated a maintenance engineer and tried to attach a KVM switch to a bank computer for remote control purposes

ATF CIO Pushes for a More Mobile Government

Report: French ministers told to install Android sandbox if they want to use smartphones

Ministers have been reminded to use only smartphones with an approved security device to discuss sensitive information

How cloud-based disaster recovery is getting more efficient

Axcient says it can restore data faster and in a smaller footprint; is the cloud now ready for your DR?

Court ruling a warning to companies on workers’ Facebook privacy

Apple issues final non-security update for OS X Mountain Lion

Patches 30 vulnerabilities, also ships updates for Lion and aged Snow Leopard

Court decision in Google Street View case called unpersuasive, flawed

Tech think-tank argues Google did not violate Wiretap Act

Dropbox takes a peek at files

The behavior was noticed after a file-tracking service was used to watch several files uploaded to Dropbox