Microsoft general counsel has likened government snooping efforts to ‘advanced persistent threats’ and has revealed that the company will be encrypting customer data while in transit between its data centres. Highlighting Microsoft…
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Iranian news agency: $1m Stuxnet 2 in the making
FARS news agency has claimed in its latest report that Saudi Arabian and Israeli spy agencies are working on a new and more powerful version of Stuxnet to sabotage Iranian program. The…
UK Gov to order ISPs to block extremist websites
UK Government is mulling ways to keep netizens away from the influence of terror related contents and one of the measures it dubs viable is to orders ISPs to block extremist websites,…
Dutch privacy authorities accuse Google of data protection law violation
Dutch privacy watchdog, the Dutch Data Protection Authority (DPA), after a seven-month investigation, has accused Google of breaching Dutch personal data protection law since it introduced a new privacy policy last year….
European Commission drafts steps to restore faith in EU-US data flows
The European Commission has outlined draft steps that it believes will pave the way for restoring faith in EU-US data flows following revelations about NSA spying activities under its PRISM programme. European…
Microsoft to beef up encryption to counter NSA surveillance
Microsoft is looking to revamp its internet traffic encryption system as it believes that its global communications system links have been breached by the National Security Agency, reported the Washington Post. Per…
David Cameron welcomes internet porn filters
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has welcomed family-friendly internet porn filters being offered by ISPs stating that such filters were required to keep children from ‘stumbling across hardcore legal pornography’. Cameron was…
FCC may allow in-flight cellphone use
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is up with plans to allow passengers use their cell phones in-flight. While there is still a restriction on using cell phones during takeoff and landing, FCC’s…
Ofcom looking to free more spectrum to meet with future mobile broadband demands
Ofcom has unveiled its plans of moving spectrum in 2.3GHz and 3.4GHz bands from public sector and auctioning it for commercial usage to ensure that UK has enough spectrum to meet with…
Canadian Government stems Lenovo’s BlackBerry takeover bid
Lenovo had been actively pursuing its plans to takeover BlackBerry and had reportedly even signed an NDA with the company, but the Canadian Government rejected the idea of a Chinese company taking…
Attack tool targeting Obamacare website Healthcare.gov released
An attack tool that specifically targets Healthcare.gov has been released by a hacktivists that go by the name “Destroy Obama Care!” Claimed to be a means for launching a Distributed Denial of…
NIST initiates cryptographic standards review over NSA foul play
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced review of all its previous recommendations in wake of recent reports of secret NSA meddling leading to weakening of standards making it…
NSA secretly snooped on Yahoo, Google data centres claims new report
The National Security Agency (NSA) is secretly keeping an eye on Yahoo and Google’s data centers, claims Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor. The security agency’s project to intercept the communication and data…