SAN FRANCISCO - Twitter is beefing up its security to make it harder for outsiders ? read especially the NSA - to uncover data, the company announced. Twitter has added forward secrecy, a security measure that uses temporary, individual keys to encrypt each Web session, instead of relying on a single master key. Championed by
NEW YORK - The United Nations may soon extend its rules on human rights to digital privacy, which could increase political pressure on the National Security Agency and agencies in other countries to establish limits on surveillance for a cloud computing era. Diplomats from Germany and Brazil helped drive the U.N. General Assembly's human rights
TENAFLY, N.J. - Twitter Inc. said it has enabled Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) in a move to increase protections around users? information following reports of secret data mining by the National Security Agency (NSA). ?Forward secrecy is just the latest way in which Twitter is trying to defend and protect the user?s voice,? Twitter said
BIRMINGHAM - Recent speculation that Dustin Trammel is the mysterious inventor of Bitcoin and somehow connected to the Silk Road marketplace drove this Texas-based security researcher to post a denial to his website. Bitcoins are the first form of digital currency that, according to Satoshi Nakamoto the pseudonym for Bitcoin's elusive creator, does not rely
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ca. - Google has expanded its bug-bounty program to cover vulnerabilities uncovered in Android. The program began with Chrome and expanded to Google Web sites and other open-source software projects. Under the program, people who find security holes get paid bounties. That often equates to a few hundred dollars, but particularly skilled attacks
WASHINGTON DC - Could online privacy one day be a thing of the past as we share more and more details about ourselves through social networks? Vint Cerf certainly believes that privacy will become much harder to ensure. The father of the Internet spoke Tuesday about online privacy at a US Federal Trade Commission workshop
WASHINGTON DC - Three US senators with access to confidential NSA information don't see the agency's data-gathering methods as necessary to ensure US security. On Tuesday, Senators Mark Udall (D-Colorado), Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), and Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) filed an amicus brief on behalf of a lawsuit filed by several organizations that claims the National
TENAFLY, N.J. - Private cloud computing is a reality for half of large enterprises with agility being the key driver, according to Gartner Inc. In a recent research report, "Private Cloud Matures, Hybrid Cloud Is Next," the industry analyst firm said cost was an important consideration as well. Security, often cited by IT professionals as
BIRMINGHAM - Amazon announced several initiatives at its AWS re:Invent conference that are destined to disrupt several markets. One such program is Amazon WorkSpaces, an Amazon provided virtual desktop (VDI) product, which will be available for a low monthly fee, starting, according to Amazon, at $35. Another initiative is AWS AppStream that provides infrastructure to
By Aimee Rhodes TENAFLY, N.J. - IT-security related salaries are expected to climb in 2014, according to a survey released by TEKsystems, which polled some 900 IT leaders including CIOs, IT VPs, IT directors and IT hiring managers. Some 65 percent of respondents said they expected security salaries to increase. That?s up from a similar