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New rules on drones and aerial surveillance issued by FAA, White House
Proposed FAA rules would prohibit flying drones out of eyesight, at night, or over people, while the president has ordered federal agencies to be transparent about data collection and to respect privacy.
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Artificial Intelligence could make us extinct, warn Oxford University...
Researchers from Oxford University have joined the growing chorus of sober, intelligent, technology literate people warning about the dangers of Artificial Intelligence by listing it as one of twelve...
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WhatsApp spy tool lets anyone track when you're online
WhatsSpy Public illustrates that fiddling with your privacy settings doesn't stop people from tracking your status and any changes you've made to profile photos, status messages and settings.
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Lizard Squad returns, claims attack on Xbox Live and Daybreak Games
Hacking group Lizard Squad has returned, apparently disrupting Microsoft's Xbox Live service and Daybreak Games with DDoS attacks.
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Get ready for the internet-enabled, speech recognising, joke-telling Barbie
An internet-enabled toy that talks to your kids: what could possibly go wrong?!
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Yelp sues Revleap for claiming it sells good reviews, buries the bad ones
Revleap promises to sell improved ratings to businesses, but Yelp claims that it does nothing but lie and spam both Yelp's customers and Revleap clients' customers, dangling gift cards in exchange for...
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Onion.city - a search engine bringing the Dark Web into the light
Last week, user Virgil Griffith went onto the Tor-talk mailing list and announced Onion City, a Dark Web search engine that allows regular web users to delve into the Dark Web.
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SSCC 186 - Just how firm is your firmware? [PODCAST]
Here's the latest episode of our weekly security podcast - from firmware and Firefox to Project Zero and Lightning conductors. Chet and Duck are in fine fettle as usual...enjoy!
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Windows 10 will work with FIDO specs for password-free access, says Microsoft
Microsoft has announced that its forthcoming revamp of Windows will be compliant with FIDO's current specifications for advanced authentication. Or has it?
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Visa asks to track your smartphone to help sniff out credit card fraud
Visa will begin asking card holders to opt in to a new service in April 2015 that could help reduce credit card fraud - if consumers allow their smartphones to be tracked whenever they make a purchase.
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RBS and NatWest banks to use Apple's Touch ID fingerprint system for mobile...
The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest have launched a new mobile banking service that allows Apple customers to authenticate via Apple's Touch ID.
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Twitter's new tool should stop password sharing and help fend off hijackings
The new tool, TweetDeck Teams, lets users share Twitter accounts without having to share passwords.
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Breakthrough in facial recognition: the 'Deep Dense Face Detector'
A breakthrough in facial recognition technology means that computers will soon be able to spot faces even if they're tilted or partially blocked: a boon to cloud storage providers, social networks,...
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FreeBSD and the YARNBUG - more trouble at the Random Number Mill
How do you test your random number generator? How do you determine, in an ordered way, that a sequence of numbers is entirely disordered? With difficulty!
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Forget Google Glass, here's Sony's (not quite as catchy) SmartEyeglass
Those aren't augmented reality spectacles. THESE are augmented reality spectacles! But what about the privacy and security side?
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Hackers force closure of Canadian Bitcoin exchange Cavirtex
Canada's largest Bitcoin exchange - Cavirtex - has announced its closure, saying the latest in a string of hacking attacks may have left hashed passwords and 2FA "secrets" compromised.
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Revenge-porn king Hunter Moore pleads guilty to identity theft, hacking
Congratulations to the hundreds of victims and to Charlotte Laws: the extremely tenacious mother of one victim who wouldn't back down.
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Ruin privacy-invading photos with reflective glass nanosphere clothing
Wearing clothes that turn you invisible is one way to fend off unwanted photographs, but your identity's still up for grabs in the light of day.
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The Dark Web: anarchy, law, freedom and anonymity
Any notion that the Dark Web will be allowed to flourish as a vast, lawless space without a serious challenge is fantasy. The question is, what balance of surveillance and darkness are we prepared to...
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Lenovo "Superfish" controversy - what you need to know
Controversy of the week is "Superfish," an adware program pre-installed on Lenovo computers that has some worrying security problems. Here's what you need to know, in plain English...
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