• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-01-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google unifies your privacy and security settings in one spot

More than three years ago, Google unified its privacy policy. Now it's unifying your privacy (and security) information. The company recently announced an overhaul to the Google account dashboard that puts nearly every privacy and security feature ... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-01-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Facebook boosts notification email security with OpenPGP encryption

The next time someone tags you in a Facebook post, the social network can send you a super secret notification that not even the National Security Agency can read—at least as far as we know. On Monday, Facebook announced that […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-01-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Apple vulnerability could allow firmware modifications in older Macs, researcher says

A zero-day software vulnerability in the firmware of older Apple computers could be used to slip hard-to-remove malware onto a computer, according to a security researcher.Pedro Vilaca, who studies Mac security, wrote on his blog that the flaw he found […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-01-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, June 1

Once again, reports have Intel near a deal with AlteraIntel may announce a deal to acquire FPGA maker Altera on Monday, the Wall Street Journal reports, after the two companies returned to the bargaining table following a failure to come […]

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