Microsoft launched its new transparency-centric website this past week along with its most recent transparency report, which covers the first six months of 2015.
A high school student has claimed to have hacked the private email account of CIA Director John Brennan where the student found a number of sensitive, government-related files, according to a report in the New York Post.
The Second General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Friday it was time to "throw out" the so-called Espionage Act in favor of more modernized laws to deal with whistleblowers and other emerging security issues.
"Privacy isn't about something to hide, it's about something to lose," Edward Snowden told attendees at the "Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?" conference hosted by the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College.
Floating what he called a test case, New York University School of Law Professor Jeremy Waldron led a thought-provoking talk on privacy, secrecy and surveillance at the "Why Privacy Matters: What Do We Lose When We Lose Our Privacy?" conference.
Japanese online banking users are the target of a newly detected banking trojan, dubbed Win32/Brolux.A, which is so far spread through two vulnerabilities still distributed by an adult website.
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