“I would never say I worked at Facebook,” said one 30-year-old software engineer who left the company last year to pursue an alternative career. Instead, at dinner parties he would give purposefully vague responses and change the subject. “There’s this song and dance you learn to play because people are quick to judge.”

Like Wall Street before, the tech industry is a justifiable punchbag. “MBA jerks used to go and work for Wall Street, now wealthy white geeks go to Stanford and then waltz into a VC or tech firm.”

The Glass Room in central London looks like a high-end tech store, but is actually an exhibition designed to encourage visitors to question how easily they give data away online.

Regardless of how you feel about Key, the Cloud Cam is easy to grok. You can use it in conjunction with the Key service (which at the moment is only available in select cities) or you can just use it on its own as security camera.

A British teenager who tried to order a car bomb on the dark web and get it delivered to his address has been found guilty this week.

This is why it doesn’t come as a surprise to see the company unveil a pair of NFC-enabled gloves for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic games. As the name suggests, these are gloves with NFC built into them, so what happens is that when customers want to make payment, instead of digging through their coats and pants for their wallets, they can simply wave their gloves over the payment terminal and it will be registered.

As a reporter who has covered technology for more than two decades, I am familiar with the usual forms of internet harassment—gangs that bring down a website, haters who post your home address online, troll armies that hurl insults on a social network. But I’d never encountered this type of email onslaught before. I wasn’t sure what to do.

It didn't take Delpy long to guess why his laptop had been the target of a literal black bag job. It contained the subject of his presentation at the Moscow conference, an early version of a program he'd written called Mimikatz. That subtly powerful hacking tool was designed to siphon a Windows user's password out of the ephemeral murk of a computer's memory, so that it could be used to gain repeated access to that computer, or to any others that victim's account could access on the same network. The Russians, like hackers around the world, wanted Delpy's source code.

The University of East Anglia has been involved in a personal data breach for the second time in five months.

Around 300 postgraduate students in the received an email on Sunday 5 November which contained "personal information about the health of a member of staff", due to the accidental use of an email distribution list.

A civil rights group has launched a legal challenge in the UK against a deal that asks the NHS to share patient data for immigration enforcement.

The agreement allows the Home Office to ask the NHS to hand over non-clinical information on patients – like date of birth or last known address – for immigration offences, such as outstaying their time limit in the UK.

Concerned that browser cookies fall short when it comes to tracking mobile devices and their owners on the internet, computer-science boffins believe they can recognize phone-toters using only their keystrokes and accelerometer data.

Equifax spent $87.5 million in the third quarter on its recent data breach.

The disclosure came amid an earnings report that showed revenue growth of 4 percent to $834.8 million and net income of $96.3 million.

In other words, the data breach affecting 145 million Equifax customers dented the cash cow, but it certainly didn't kill it.

The “PreCheck” program is billed as a convenient service to allow U.S. travelers to “speed through security” at airports. However, the latest proposal released by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reveals the Department of Homeland Security’s greater underlying plan to collect face images and iris scans on a nationwide scale. DHS’s programs will become a massive violation of privacy that could serve as a gateway to the collection of biometric data to identify and track every traveler at every airport and border crossing in the country.

The Australian federal government has announced setting up a complaints line for the IT industry in the form of an email address, which it said it will closely monitor.

Hausübung: Warum ist das eine schlechte Idee?

Wenn Mitarbeiter Messaging-Apps aus dem Consumer-Umfeld auf ihren beruflich genutzten Smartphones verwenden, drohen Unternehmen unter Umständen Abmahnungen und drakonische Strafen.

Ein Reddit-Nutzer behauptet, Facebook-Mitarbeiter hätten eines seiner Dokumente gelesen, nachdem er dieses über den Messenger des sozialen Netzwerks verschickt hatte.

Nur jeder fünfte Internetnutzer in Deutschland hält seine Daten im Netz für sicher. 78 Prozent geben dagegen an, ihre Daten seien online eher (40 Prozent) oder völlig (38 Prozent) unsicher, wie eine aktuelle Befragung von 1.017 Internetnutzern durch den Berliner Digitalverband BITKOM ergeben hat. Grund für den Vertrauensverlust: Berichte über Geheimdienste, die Daten im Internet absaugen und Hacker, die Daten von Nutzern großer Online-Plattformen ausspähen.

Der Fehler betrifft nur Mac OS X und Linux. Er steckt im Mozilla-Browser Firefox, der den Unterbau für den Tor-Browser liefert. Datei-URLs umgehen unter Umständen den Browser und stellen eine direkte Verbindung zwischen Betriebssystem und entferntem Server her.

Die Beamten ließen die Tür vom Schlüsseldienst öffnen, stellten fest, dass Alexa allein zu Hause war und schalteten den Lautsprecher aus. Wie und auf welchem Wege Alexa den Befehl bekommen hatte, Musik abzuspielen, blieb zunächst offen. Die Kosten für den Schlüsseldienst soll nun der Besitzer zahlen.

Ausgangspunkt dafür war ein einfach gestrickter, digitaler Einbruch. Es wurde keine Sicherheitslücke ausgenutzt, sondern es kamen USB-Keylogger zum Einsatz, die an Rechner der Universität angeschlossen wurden. Die Kommilitonen, die mit dem Beschuldigten kooperierten, stellten sicher, dass die Professoren diese PCs auch verwendeten.

Im Sommer hat der Social-Media-Dienst Snapchat ein neues Feature vorgestellt, das von Datenschützern massiv kritisiert wurde. Durch Snap Map wird allen Nutzern der aktuelle Standort mitgeteilt – vorausgesetzt man hat dies zuvor aktiviert. In Frankreich wurde dies einer Frau nun zum Verhängnis, wie Le Parisien berichtet.