File it under "irony" or "misguided," but executives at some of the world's largest IT security companies willingly gave up Twitter passwords while registering for a security event.
BlackBerry would like its users to know its phones are "as safe as they have always been" after reports that Dutch police are capable of reading encrypted BlackBerry messages.
The U.S. government acknowledges in its "Vulnerabilities Equities Process" (VEP) to sometimes condoning withholding information on zero-day vulnerabilities so they can be exploited for intelligence and law enforcement purposes.
Researchers at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) found security vulnerabilities in many of the most popular IoT devices that they looked at, including Google's Nest Thermostat.
Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have stepped up to fill the void in privacy protection with the introduction today of more than 30 bipartisan privacy-related bills that cover everything from safeguarding to putting parameters on the use of location data.
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