French gadget maker Archos has partnered with little known Brazilian company Sikur to develop and launch an extra-secure smartphone. Called GranitePhone, the handset was first unveiled at MWC 2015 (without fanfare), and can now be pre-ordered for $849. That high price might make you think we’re talking about a high-end…
No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans’ Privacy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The spread of knowledge about the NSA’s surveillance programs has shaken the trust of customers in U.S. Internet companies like Facebook, Google, and Apple: especially non-U.S. customers who have discovered how weak the legal protections over their data is under U.S….
Tim Cook talks removing stock apps, Siri privacy and more
Apparently, Tim Cook likes to drop in on Apple Stores unannounced while traveling, and during one of those trips he gave an interview to talk about new Apple products like the iPad Pro, features like the always-listening Siri, and older user inconveniences in iOS. One of those minor annoyances that…
Privacy issues raised: Microsoft Windows 10 can be spying on you
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Microsoft has been a company which has been in the news off late. The company has been making major breakthroughs in the world of software technology and operating systems as the arrival of Windows 10 has changed the future and the…
Hacking Team Leaks Confirm What Arab Privacy Advocates Already Knew
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans For several years now, privacy advocates in the Middle East and North Africa have grappled with the impact of targeted surveillance technologies on various communities in their countries. These tools, sold by unscrupulous European companies to some of the world’s least…
Welcome to your privacy nightmare! Is big business getting out of hand with Big Data?
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans “When businesses are allowed to gather personal information, predict your behaviour and make decisions based on it, this is the information wild west. Welcome to the nightmare.” Richard Hollis, director of information security consultancy the Risk Factory, believes that the ability…
How Israel balances cyber security, privacy
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Despite the warnings of lawyers and experts in data security, on Feb. 15, the outgoing government authorized the creation of a national cyber defense authority. In a strongly worded letter to Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein, the opponents argued against the authorization…
Low-tech ways you can protect your privacy online
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans espite the seemingly endless hack attacks, and a recent Pew study showing that Americans feel powerless to protect themselves against intrusions on their online privacy, few Americans do much in the way of adopting privacy enhancing measures. But one privacy advocate…
Researchers in Bluetooth IoT Privacy Warning
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Security researchers are warning that privacy issues in the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocol could make users’ smart devices easily trackable from potentially long distances. Context Information Security announced the findings of new research in a post at the end of…
April 28 – 29, 2015-Cybersecurity and Privacy Innovation Forum
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The CSP Innovation Forum 2015 is organised by the European Commission, DG CNECT (Unit H4 Trust & Security) and the CSP Forum .This event will include DG CNECT H2020 informational sessions relating to ‘Digital Security:Cybersecurity,Privacy & Trust’ calls in 2015 (DS-03-2015,DS-04-2015,DS-05-2015, DS-07-2015). (The CSP…
