Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer at F-Secure, has cancelled his talk at the RSA conference in protest of the recent reports linking RSA, NSA and a $10m payoff for inclusion of Dual…
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RSA denies NSA $10m ‘backdoor’ links
RSA security has ‘categorically denied’ existence of any contract between the company and National Security Agency (NSA), US stating that the decision of using Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator (Dual…
EU inches ahead with its universal mobile phone charger plans
A provisional deal between Members of the European Parliament and the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of Ministers brings the EU one step closer to its goal of enforcing mobile phone manufacturers…
Report: NSA paid RSA $10m to use Dual EC DRBG as preferred random number generator
Newly released documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden A new report reveals that National Security Agency (NSA) allegedly paid $10 million to RSA back in 2006 to get the cryptography pioneer use Dual Elliptic…
Spain slaps £751,000 fine on Google over privacy policy
Spanish Data Protection Agency has slapped a €900,000 (£751,000) fine on Google over three separate instances of violation of Spain’s Data Protection Act. The Spanish watchdog, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos…
Google: Government requests for content removal increase by 68 percent
Google, in its latest transparency report, has revealed that government request for information takedown has increased by 68 percent during the first half of 2013 as compared to the second half of…
Ofcom proposes stricter fault repair, new installation rules for BT Openreach
Ofcom has proposed a set of stricter rules for BT Openreach requiring the telecom giant to carry out 80 percent of fault repairs within two working days, regardless of the nature of…
UK ISP level porn filters blocking legitimate sex education, abuse support sites
Internet porn filters backed by UK Prime Minister David Cameron and implemented by Sky, TalkTalk, BT and Virgin Media are not only blocking sites distributing adult content, but are also blocking sex…
Munich declares open source project a success
Munich has declared that its decade old move to open source software is finally over and that it is a huge success with over 15,000 systems running Linux and OpenOffice. Back in…
Norway says Bitcoin isn’t real money, will impose tax on savings
Days after European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a warning against virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Norway has said that Bitcoin isn’t real money and they will treat savings in Bitcoins as assets, which…
European Banking Authority issues warning on Bitcoin
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a warning on the risks involved with virtual currencies like Bitcoin stating that consumers are not protected through any regulation and they may be at…
Guess what? NSA looking for terrorists inside online games!
Latest set of documents leaked by whistle-blower Edward Snowden throws light on how spooks over at NSA and GCHQ infiltrated the virtual worlds of online games like World of Warcraft and Second…
31 new communities in Devon, Somerset to get superfast broadband in early 2014
Thirty One new communities in Devon and Somerset are set to receive superfast broadband connectivity by March 2014. Connecting Devon and Somerset is entrusted with the task of overseeing the rollout process…
Tech behemoths urge President Obama to limit government surveillance
Technology giants including Microsoft, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Apple, AOL and Yahoo have come together and issued an open letter to US President Barack Obama and the Congress to bring in reforms…
FSF: Microsoft’s security promises are meaningless
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has criticized Microsoft’s recent announcement that Redmond was going to reinforce encryption and increase legal transparency to tackle government snooping. Microsoft likened Government snooping to ‘advanced persistent…