I’ve been at this IT thing for 35 years, and I’ve yet to find an explanation why security should trump convenience that has any appeal to those who lose the convenience. Does this sound familiar?
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A recent survey shows that even before PRISM news broke, six out of ten consumers were concerned about the security of storing their content in social networking and cloud storage services.
China rebuked the United States on Tuesday for accusing it of facilitating the flight of fugitive U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, and said suggestions that it had done so were “baseless and unacceptable”.
BlackBerry has officially launched the Secure Work Space, designed to help government and corporate users keep their personal and business lives separate on mobile devices.
Now I do come from the camp of folks that say that Firefox is mainly safe because it is not the tallest nail getting hit at this moment. Internet Explorer is harder hit on by those who wish to do you harm, so that is one reason why it is less safe than Firefox.
Some 52% of non-cloud users cited concerns about security as a barrier to adoption, while 94% of cloud users experienced security benefits, a comScore poll of more than 200 companies with 25 to 499 PC users showed.
Small business websites have overtaken porn and gambling sites as cyber criminals’ malware distribution tools of choice, according to Sophos director of technology James Lyne, who said the lack of skilled professionals to tackle this issue is leaving the UK wide open to attack.
1. Capture massive amounts of data – One of the NSA’s goals is to record the metadata on every phone call and email.
Carl Icahn has begun approaching investors in the hope of securing $5.2 billion in loans to back an alternative bid for PC maker Dell.
Top secret documents submitted to the court that oversees surveillance by US intelligence agencies show the judges have signed off on broad orders which allow the NSA to make use of information “inadvertently” collected from domestic US communications without a warrant.
