Apple, which recently filed a patent application for a technology to keep screens on mobile devices free of fingerprints, is upping the ante by filing for a new application that could keep you fingers from even touching the screen in the first place.
Police in Taipei have started using a combination of Global Positioning System, Geographic Information System and security cameras and satellite images to boost their anticrime efforts.
The New Taipei Police activated these technologies Wednesday in their cutting-edge Intelligence Integrated Center (IIC), Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported.
A single hacker has successfully penetrated an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government contractors or employees.
The cyber-attacker posted an Excel spreadsheet containing log-in credentials and personal information for 20,000 people obtained from allianceforbiz.com, according to a blog post signed by “Thehacker12″ on 22 August.
The hacker group Anonymous stepped up its BART attack Wednesday, posting a partially nude photo of a man they say is the transit agency's chief media spokesman, Linton Johnson.
Anonymous has been calling for the resignation of Johnson, who suggested that BART officials turn off cellphone service at underground stations earlier this month to thwart a protest against transit agency police.
A German data protection authority warns companies that they might be fined if they continue to use the Facebook 'Like' and 'Pages' features which, according to its findings, violate local and European data protection laws.
The Data Protection Commissioner's Office (ULD) from the Northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein explains that the two features work in a similar way to web analytics software.
Facing heat from finer-grained privacy settings in Google+, Facebook has revamped the controls account holders use to designate who gets to see their pictures, posts, and other content.
Another week, another data breach at a major university. This week it's Yale, which announced Friday that the names and Social Security numbers of 43,000 people affiliated with the university had been publicly viewable on Google for the past 10 months.
One million records from a business database maintained by the Danish government were posted to the Internet Sunday by an unknown hacker. In a message posted to The Pirate Bay website, the hacker declared the records were being exposed on the Internet as a protest against the government using public funds to process the records in question, then charging the public to access them.
Epson Korea Co., the South Korean unit of Japan's Seiko Epson Corp., said Saturday that its Web site has been hacked, causing the private information of 350,000 users to be leaked.
"We have discovered through an internal investigation that the customers' data were leaked. We apologize for causing the trouble," said Epson Korea in a pop-up notice on its Web site.
The alleged LulzSec computer hacker Jake Davis may have had his ‘secret’ identity revealed by a rival on the Xbox games console.
It is unclear how Davis was identified but in a leaked online conversation yesterday LulzSec's leader, who goes by the name Sabu, suggested it was an embarrassing source for a highly tech-savvy teen.
