Google tightens HTTPS protections in Gmail in light of government snooping
Citing the need to protect users from government cyber-spying, Google has tightened Gmail's encryption screws by removing the option to turn off HTTPS.
View ArticleGoogle trumpets extra encryption for Gmail, but stays mum on other apps
Google recently trumpeted that it now encrypts Gmail messages while shuffling them among its data centers, an extra security layer aimed at thwarting government and criminal snoops, but didn't say if...
View ArticleWindows XP: Chronicle of a death foretold
When Microsoft ends support for Windows XP on Tuesday, a security sinkhole will likely open and gradually widen, threatening hundreds of millions of PCs worldwide in homes, companies, government...
View ArticleBox patches Heartbleed flaw in its cloud storage systems
Box has patched the Heartbleed security hole on its servers and has advised its customers to change their passwords.
View ArticleHeartbleed prompts joint vendor effort to boost OpenSSL, security
Reeling from the Heartbleed security fiasco, major IT vendors including Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Google and Cisco are backing a Linux Foundation initiative designed to boost open source projects...
View ArticleGoogle stops scanning Gmail messages for ads in Apps for Education
Google will no longer scan the email messages of students and other school staff who use its Google Apps for Education suite, exempting about 30 million users from the chronically controversial...
View ArticleMicrosoft fixes IE zero-day flaw
Microsoft has issued a patch for an Internet Explorer zero-day flaw being actively exploited by malicious hackers and that was first identified Saturday .
View ArticleCEOs may look twice at IBM's new security suite, services as Target's head rolls
IBM picked a good day to launch a suite of security tools and services: a Monday morning when many CEOs saw in their news roundup that retailer Target is newly rid of a CEO who presided over a...
View ArticleReport: The NSA records all cellphone calls in the Bahamas
The U.S. National Security Agency has been recording and archiving "virtually every" cellphone call in the Bahamas without knowledge and permission from the island nation's government, according to a...
View ArticleMicrosoft boosts anti-snooping protection in Outlook.com, OneDrive
Microsoft has added encryption safeguards to the Outlook.com webmail service and to the OneDrive cloud storage service, in part to better protect these consumer products from government snoops.
View ArticleMicrosoft takes the hassle out of Office 365 email encryption
When Microsoft announced message encryption for Office 365 in November, it came with a potentially annoying requirement: People receiving the encrypted messages had to be logged into a Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft to boost Active Directory protection with Aorato acquisition
Microsoft plans to beef up Active Directory's security with machine learning technology from a startup it has acquired.
View ArticlePlayStation Network recovering after outage
Sony's PlayStation Network is stabilizing after a suspected attack brought it down on Christmas Day and kept it unavailable for most of Friday.
View ArticleSony: PlayStation Network is back online now, really
After giving gamers false hope on Saturday, Sony now says its PlayStation Network has been fully restored after a Christmas Day attack that knocked it offline for about three days.
View ArticleHackers hit UK phone retailer, possibly compromising data of up to 2.4M...
Cyberthieves broke into the IT systems of Carphone Warehouse, a large cell phone retailer in the U.K., and may have stolen personal and bank data of up to 2.4 million customers and the credit card...
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