Security

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Other governments and some companies are using social media to address dissent, a DARPA program officer said

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Spammers use font tricks to deceive Android Market users into trusting rogue app developers

Wed, February 08, 2012 - The issuing of subordinate root certificates to companies, so they can snoop on SSL-encrypted traffic, is a common industry practice

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Google has decided to drop OCSP revocation checks from Chrome because they are inefficient and slow

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Here's how to recognize a comment on your blog or website as spam, and how to stem the flow.

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Why do some enterprise managers decide to brave their way into the new and unknown of cloud-based services? Sometimes it's simply because the old technology just isn't working out that well anymore.

Wed, February 08, 2012 - Users and critics are upset with Path, the smartphone-based social network, after a developer discovered that Path was uploading users' entire address books to its servers without explicit consent.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - Between the free-expression camp and the hard-line regimes with strict censorship policies are a host of important, growing nations that are just beginning to delve into the work of crafting Internet policy. And those countries could hold the key.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - A research firm that measures the security effectiveness of browsers noticed something it thought might be fishy with the way Chrome was doing things. Turns out, there may currently be a privacy concern about Google's use of end user IP addresses as part of its Safe Browsing API.

Tue, February 07, 2012 - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has sent warning letters to the makers of six mobile apps used for background checks, saying the apps may violate a consumer credit protection law.