• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jun-01-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Senate delays vote on NSA phone records dragnet

A controversial program allowing the U.S. National Security Agency to collect millions of domestic telephone records expired Sunday night after the Senate failed to vote on a bill to extend the authority for the surveillance.The Senate, meeting on Sunday as […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The NSA reportedly tried — but failed — to use a Stuxnet variant against North Korea

Right around the time that the Stuxnet attack so famously sabotaged Iran’s nuclear program in 2009 and 2010, the U.S. National Security Agency reportedly was trying something similar against North Korea.The NSA-led U.S. effort used a version of the Stuxnet […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Silk Road mastermind gets two life sentences

The creator and chief operator of the Silk Road has been sentenced to two life sentences in jail for running the online drug marketplace, which federal prosecutors estimated facilitated the sales of more than US$213 million worth of drugs and […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• May-29-2015
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google levels up security with secure comms tool, better authentication

Google targeted people’s growing digital insecurity at its I/O developer conference this week with a number of new products that aim to protect communications and improve authentication.
Project Vault is a new hardware device created by Google’s Advanced Technology and Products […]