Steven Englehard, a PhD candidate at Princeton University, unveiled his open source web measurement platform developed to allow for online tracking measurement.
Apple released patches for iOS and OS X operating systems and Safari after Synack's Patrick Wardle demonstrated that it was still possible for attackers to bypass Apple's Gatekeeper program.
Vermont legislators will mull an amendment to the state's distracted driving law that would allow police to seize mobile devices from drivers without a warrant.
Orbot: Proxy with Tor, essentially Tor for Android, will be incorporated into the next release of Facebook Android, set to be available in a matter of days.
In a joint statement, the U.S. Attorney Office and FBI's Boston Division announced a guilty plea in a cyberstalking and "sextortion" case in which a Pennsylvania man repeatedly harassed a Boston-area college student online.
Europe's data protection bodies will meet on February 2 on the data-transfer void left when Safe Harbour was ruled invalid by EU's Court of Justice in October.
As Congress probed changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report about companies selling surveillance technologies to Iran.
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