Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Apple have joined forces in a civil liberties group to attempt to get the government to be more transparent. They have submitted a letter to President Barrack Obama and Congress to allow ISP's and other telecommunication companies to offer more details about requests from the governmental branches.The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has barred…
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Looking to develop a way to block the government and private companies from monitoring people's messages, Peter Sunde is working on an app called Hemlis "where no one can spy on you, not even us."In the wake of people learning about the National Security Agency's Massive surveillance program, it has become clear that phone records…
While this is not a very current topic it’s worth noting the Douglas Engelbart passed away this month on July 2nd. Engelbart was 88 and passed away in his sleep. While many people don’t know what Engelbart did by his name alone they have most certainly been impacted by his inventions.Engelbart was the inventor of…
Google and other advertisement companies have decided that sites that host pirated content will not be able to take advantage of advertisements from larger companies. Sites that host pirated content have a lot of traffic and also generate a lot of money from the adverts on theirs sites.A study at The University of Southern…
An e-mail claiming to be from the Chinese Ministry of Defense actually contains a piece of malware that exploits a hole in Microsoft office, says Trend Micro.Government agencies across several countries are on the hit list of a targeted cyber attack according to security vendor Trend Micro.Officials at agencies across Europe and Asia have been…
Microsoft asked the Obama Administration to allow it to reveal details about how it responded to orders from the government for user account data.Brad Smith, Microsoft's General Counsel, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying there is "no longer a compelling government interest" in preventing companies from "sharing more information" about how they…
Edward Snowden has been on the run from the US government ever since releasing confidential information in regards to the US Governments practices of spying on its citizens via metadata collected from various ISP’s and Internet/Technology based companies. Snowden has requested asylum from many different countries since releasing this information and is supposedly on the…
Lookout has started security testing the Google Glass product. They have discovered a vulnerability with QR codes. They have submitted this vulnerability to Google and Google has mitigated it. This has opened some peoples eyes to more vulnerabilities that it may have.This particular exploit would be able to use either a printed QR code or a blue tooth device…
AMD is known for it's fast processors unveiled its new 5GHz eight core processor which it claims to be world's first commercially available 5GHz processor. The FX-9590 will use the Piledriver micro-architecture and AM3+ socket so it will fit most modern day motherboards. AMD once again shows its competitive side against Intel, back in 2000 AMD was…
While many people are completely content with their phones the way they come, many tinkerers like to customize their phones. Not only can the outside of your phone be customized with various accessories but the software on a phone can be edited and customized as well. There are many different features on a phone that…
Microsoft has been working with the NSA since the launch of PRISM. However the relationship between them is closer than we thought. Microsoft has been giving NSA permission to view data before encryption on the Operating System.This stands true for their new email portal Outlook.com. They have launched a site called Scroogled to dissuade users from using Google email.…
Inventors from all over have been using a website called Kickstarter to bring much needed funding to new products they are designing. The ideas is that if someone needs money to work on a project they can pitch their idea via this website and potentially gain the funding for the project provided they meet their…