SAN FRANCISCO - A student group has charged several U.S. technology companies with violations of European law for allegedly cooperating with the NSA to collect data on private citizens. Known as Europe-v-Facebook, the group of Austrian students announced Wednesday that it filed formal complaints with the EU against Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Skype, and Yahoo, CNET
SAN FRANCISCO - Adware has become a somewhat concerning issue on Android, a new study from security firm Lookout has discovered. According to the security company, over the last year alone, over 1 million American Android users have unknowingly downloaded adware. What's worse, 6.5 percent of the free applications available in the Google Play marketplace
CUPERTINO, Ca. - Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is continuing to bare his angst about the seemingly endless revelations concerning the National Security Agency's liberal use of technology. Last week, he expressed his frustrations to Latin American journalists when they chatted with him at San Francisco Airport. He compared America to Russia, CNET News.Com reported. Appearing
WASHINGTON DC - President Obama went on PBS Monday night to discuss revelations about secret NSA surveillance programs with Charlie Rose. In his own words, Obama defended programs like PRISM and argued that they do not sacrifice freedoms for security. "Well, in the end, and what I?ve said, and I continue to believe, is that
SAN FRANCISCO - North Korea has pounced on the recent revelations of NSA snooping to take a few digs at the United States. Minju Joson, the country's state-run newspaper, lashed out at the U.S. in the wake of leaks from National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden that the NSA has been collecting data on U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO - BlackBerry has issued a security advisory notice to those who have bought its flagship Z10 touchscreen smartphone - the first BlackBerry 10 device to launch following the company's bid for revival, back in February. The advisory, which was issued last week, notes a bug that relates to BlackBerry Protect, its security and
SAN FRANCISCO - Prosecutors in New York and San Francisco announced a new program last week dubbed Save Our Smartphones last week to bring together law enforcement officials, politicians, and consumer advocates across the country to fight the growing wave of smartphone thefts. The group wants to exert pressure on smartphone companies and their stockholders
SAN FRANCISCO - Some clever hacker decided to create a malicious app deceivingly similar to one of the top games in the Google Play store. And, it was downloaded more than 10,000 times before people took notice. Security company F-Secure wrote on that it had located Bad Pigs - which had the same artwork and
WASHINGTON DC - Senior U.S. national security officials have created a list of possible cyberattack targets on the orders of President Barack Obama, according to a secret document obtained by the Guardian dating back to last fall. The report's authors say they obtained "Presidential Policy Directive 20," an 18-page top-secret paper written in October 2012
WASHINGTON DC - The battle between privacy and security has reared its head again with the news that the National Security Agency gained access to the phone records of U.S. citizens. But a majority of people polled think this practice is reasonable. Among 1,005 Americans surveyed by the Pew Research Center and The Washington Post,