FCC Plans to Overhaul the Rules to Rescue Net Neutrality
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going to bat for an open Internet. The agency plans to rewrite the rules that govern how Internet traffic...
The Next Big Thing You Missed: A Would-Be Dropbox Meant to Thwart the NSA
File Sharing internet protocol BitTorrent, was best known for allowing people to swap pirated movies and music. All at the expense of big Hollywood studios and...
NSA spying through Angry Birds, Google Maps
The NSA and its British counterpart are tapping popular smartphone apps such as Angry Birds to peek into the tremendous amounts of very personal data...
Breaking: Google acquires Nest Labs for $3.2 billion
Hold on to your hats, folks. We interrupt this otherwise slow news day with some breaking news. Google today announced the acquisition of Nest Labs...
Malware communicates at a distance of 65 feet using built-in mics and speakers.
Computer scientists have developed a malware prototype that uses inaudible audio signals to communicate, a capability that allows the malware to covertly transmit keystrokes...
Google brings automatic voice search to computers running Chrome
Laptop and desktop users can now do a Google search without typing just by speaking aloud, with a Chrome extension that was made available on...
Snap Chat walks away from a $3 billion all-cash offer from Facebook
Snapchat, a rapidly growing messaging service, recently spurned an all-cash acquisition offer from FacebookFB +3.21% for $3 billion or more, according to people briefed on the...
How To Avoid CryptoLocker Ransomware
Over the past several weeks, a handful of frantic Microsoft Windows users have written in to ask what they might do to recover from PC...
Report: NSA Is Intercepting Traffic From Yahoo, Google Data Centers
Not satisfied with the bulk data it collects through court orders from internet giants Google and Yahoo, the National Security Agency reportedly vacuumed up traffic...
Flash Player now sandboxed under Safari on Mac OS X
Adobe has worked with Apple to sandbox Flash Player under Safari in Mac OS X, restricting the ability of attackers to exploit any vulnerabilities they...