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US judge orders NSA to stop collecting phone metadata
The judge said that the NSA's collection technology is "almost Orwellian" and is likely unconstitutional. His injunction to cease data collection is stayed to give the US government time to appeal - a...
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Microsoft joins tech giants and FIDO in the fight for simpler, safer...
Microsoft joins Google, PayPal, Lenovo and other tech giants as a member of the FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance, a non-profit group working to design better and more standardised methods of...
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Are the websites you're using tracking what you type?
Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or any webpage can track everything you do and could be keylogging your every pointer movement or keystroke. But it's how the internet has been since forever, though many, many...
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Facebook and Apple to help draft facial recognition rules
Big players that already have a lot of skin in the game are going to be whispering into the ear of the US Commerce Department. Will privacy be trampled in this facial-scanning gold rush?
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Google accidentally improves Android privacy, just for a moment
App Ops Launcher, a hidden feature that allowed Android users to deny selected permissions to apps, was an experiment that was never supposed to be released and that could break apps instead of just...
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Apple updates Mavericks to 10.9.1, issues security fixes for Safari
Apple just announced the first point update for its recently released OS X Mavericks. Most of the fixes and enhancements are of the not-really-to-do-with-security sort, but the update includes a new...
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UK payday loan spammers fined £175K for "Hi, Mate!" texts
Pretending to be your friend and urging you to take out a payday loan so you can go live it up is both immoral and illegal, the ICO says.
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Facebook facial recognition matches abused child's image to aid in arrest
Facebook's facial recognition technology managed to recognize the face of a female child who was victimized in a child-abuse image, and then it led law enforcement to an account where investigators...
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Stock exchanges of the world form central cyber security working group
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the trade association for the world's stock exchanges, has formed a central committee on cyber security, to work on how exchanges should go about protecting...
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The sound made by your computer could give away your encryption keys…
Cryptographers in Israel have taken aim at their laptops with microphones - and come up with some extraordinary results. They were able to listen to their email software decrypting a sequence of...
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Jail for phishing gang member who stole £393k from students
Olajide Onikoyi was one of many criminals who tricked students via a phishing campaign. Victims received emails prompting them to visit a fake student loans website.
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Obama’s NSA panel recommends new hands on the reins of same old mass data...
The White House on Wednesday released a 303-page report from a panel of presidential advisors who recommended that, among other things, the NSA's massive data trawling carry on, but that the data be...
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Five-minute fix: Setting up parental controls on Android
How to set up parental controls on Android devices to help keep your children safer while they use them.
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Five-minute fix: Setting up parental controls on iOS
How to set up parental controls on Apple iPhones, iPads and iPods to help keep your children safe online.
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Five-minute fix: Setting up parental controls on Mac OS X Mavericks
How to set up parental controls on Mac OS X Mavericks to keep your children safer online.
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Five-minute fix: Setting up parental controls on Windows 8
How to set up parental controls on Windows 8 to keep your children safer online.
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Five-minute fix: Setting up parental controls on Windows 7
How to set up parental controls on Windows 7 to help keep your children safe online.
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Five minute fix: Keeping your kids safe online with parental controls
We've compiled easy-to-follow instructions for setting up the parental control features on Windows 7 and 8, OS X, iOS and Android, so you can increase your kids' chances of staying safe and emotionally...
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Target confirms: Crooks may have spent holiday shopping season feasting on...
The US retail giant Target confirmed that cyber crooks may have gotten their hands on about 40 million credit and debit card accounts starting the day before Thanksgiving - 27 November - on into the...
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Use of Tor pointed FBI to Harvard University bomb hoax suspect
It was the combination of the anonymizing service with the university's WiFi that gave investigators a short list of possible suspects, one of whom turned out to be a 20-year-old student trying to get...
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