WASHINGTON DC - Microblogging platform Twitter has stopped US law enforcement and intelligence services from using a data analytics service that can process and analyze the platform's tweets and messages. On Sunday, a senior US official and other people close to the matter told the Wall Street Journal that Twitter's move, while not made public,
WASHINGTON DC - Who says Congress can’t work together? Well certainly so when it comes to email privacy. On Wednesday the House of Representatives voted 419-0 to approve the Email Privacy Act, an update to a 30-year old law privacy advocates say is long overdue. The bill essentially fills a loophole in the 1986
SAN FRANCISCO - Everyone knows that all these smart devices plugging into today’s homes - part of the exploding Internet of Things - also provide black hats with a golden opportunity to hack computer networks. On Wednesday, Samsung and Thales e-Security announced a new system for smart devices that manufacturers can plug into a refrigerator
SAN FRANCISCO - Uber, the ride hailing company, has had its file of requests by government agencies demand user data, a report contends, some 33 regulatory requests for trip data that affected 583,000 drivers and 11.6 million riders. Uber released its first-ever transparency report on how it has complied with requests for user data by
WASHINGTON DC - U.S. Sens. Diane Feinstein and Richard Burr are pushing an encryption bill, opponents say, furthers a fight that pits national security against cybersecurity. Feinstein and Burr’s bill gives law enforcement and government investigators access to encrypted devices and communications. Opponents like Chris Doggett, senior vice president of cybersecurity company Carbonite, argue the
TEL AVIV, Israel - Karamba wants to keep hackers from crashing your new connected car. The Israeli company hopes to sell Detroit automakers a tool that installs anti-hacking technology into chip-bearing auto parts before they hit the assembly line. And now the company has the money to expand production. On Thursday, YL Ventures announced it
WASHINGTON DC - FBI director James Comey acknowledged Thursday that the agency bought an unspecified tool from an outside private party after Apple refused to create new software to allow access to a terrorist’s iPhone 5C, CNN money reported. Apple had argued that a special-purpose version of iOS would not only offer access to the
WASHINGTON DC - In a court filing Monday, the US Department of Justice, with the help of a third party suspected to be an Israeli company, hacked the iPhone used by a terrorist in a December attack in California. Now the feds say they no longer need Apple’s help. The move Monday ends the legal
WASHINGTON DC - Cellebrite, a privately held Israeli company that specializes in transferring or extracting data from phones, is helping the FBI unlock the iPhone, according to a report in the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper on Wednesday. If its method is successful, the FBI will no longer need Apple's help with the iPhone, unnamed industry sources
WASHINGTON DC - If you're not already worried about your car being hacked, you really should be, the US government says. Connected cars are becoming "increasingly vulnerable" to cyberattack, according to an advisory issued Thursday by the FBI and the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They are just two of the latest organizations to voice
