Warning that the U.S. is threatened by potentially devastating cyberattacks, the nation’s national security community is recruiting the San Francisco Bay Area’s private sector to counter the assaults. View full post on cyber security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Tech experts rubbish government web snooping tactics
The UK government’s proposal to separate communications data from content, as part of new plans to allow intelligence services to monitor all internet activity, is infeasible according to a panel of technology experts. Speaking at the ‘Scrambling for Safety‘ conference at the London School of Economics yesterday, Ross Anderson, professor…
Tech firm says NDP vote hit with hundreds of thousands of malicious requests
OTTAWA – The company that ran the NDP leadership vote says more than 10,000 “malevolent” Internet addresses were used in an effort to jam the online voting system in a denial-of-service attack. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
[Tech Talk] Hacking Education
Let's take a little diversion from talking about hardware, software and tech companies this week. All the recent discussion about charter schools and virtual charter schools got me thinking about the role technology does and should play in education of our children. View full post on hacking tools – Yahoo!…
Google’s Tech City incubator to open within weeks
Google is preparing to open its new communal workspace in East London’s Tech City “in a few weeks,” and has launched a website for startup companies to register their interest. First announced in September 2011, the new co-working space, known as “Campus” will offer work areas, events space, relaxation points…
Best Buy SuperBowl ad features mobile tech luminaries
Best Buy wins for the best technology commercial in the SuperBowl. Here's the video and an enlightening extended version. It beats the pants off the lame GoDaddy and Samsung ads. View full post on text spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Sex Tech: Grindr Hacker, Digital Dating Disrupt, ICANN .XXX Defense, Filesharing Lawyer: Contempt
This week in sex and technology Big Porn’s piracy lawsuits lawyer has to pay for misconduct, the digital dating conference took place in Miami, Big Porn’s lawsuit against .XXX and ICANN got a response, and a popular location-based sex app was hacked – and it seems the hacker may go…
German criminal agency tests surveillance tech
Germany’s federal criminal agency, the BKA, is testing at least one commercial spyware program, FinSpy, delivered through the German subsidiary of Britain’s Gamma International. FinSpy was exposed last year as being a surveillance application that was used in Mubarak’s Egypt. It infects computers by fooling targets into installing a fake update for iTunes…
9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]
For those of us who weren't born with prerequisites for professional sports or rockstardom, entrepreneurship is probably the best bet for becoming fabulously wealthy before hitting our mid-life crises. View full post on firefox hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Privacy campaigners slam shopper tracking tech
Monitoring technology used in shopping centres to track customers’ movements via their mobile phones has come under fire from civil rights campaigners, who claim that it invades people’s privacy. FootPath technology, manufactured by UK company Path Intelligence, uses signals from a shopper’s mobile phone to pinpoint their position to within…