As military software becomes more mature and more powerful it is increasingly trusted to act autonomously, but there is one crucial decision that we've not yet ceded; the decision to end human lives.
Target says it reached a $19 million settlement with MasterCard to cover some of the damages to financial institutions after its December 2013 data breach. How much more is this breach going to cost?
All it would take to compromise it is to sit in the parking lot with a laptop, some free tools, and a dropper full of tech smarts.
When email was invented over 40 years ago, no one thought about how to ensure the integrity of messages. Here's what you need to know about securing email with the right kind of encryption.
Just do a Google search on "Find My Phone," and presto! It will show up on a Google map. Then, you can get it to ring its head off.
The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco is next week, starting on Monday 20 April 2015.
Get a free expo pass on us...
"Some sick, evil person thought it would be funny to send the police to my house on one of these false reports," he said.
The European Commission has accused Google of abusing its status as the 800-lb. search gorilla and has launched a separate investigation into its Android mobile operating system.
We don't usually focus on one vulnerability and say, "Do that first." But this month, we're willing to make an exception.
The Microsoft HTTP stack has a bug that could let attackers straight in with a simple HTTP request...
A 16-year-old boy who attempted to buy a deadly toxin from the deep web to "commit suicide" was charged after finding police waiting for him on the deep web.
Interpol just announced a botnet takedown that has neutralised the operation of the "Simba" malware. For now, anyway.
Paul Ducklin takes a look...
What's luckier than a four-leaf clover? Maybe a rootkit on a handy thumb drive, with access to security cameras that can be tampered with.
Researchers have come up with a tool that spots troll behaviour and low readability 80% of the time. That's 20% "oops." Worth it?
Just under three weeks ago, we wrote about a TLS certificate blunder by a Root Certificate Authority called CNNIC.
We thought we'd revisit that story today to see how the Big Four browser makers responded to the lapse...
He's been charged with trespassing on his school's computer system after snooping away an administrative password and swapping a teacher's desktop wallpaper with an image of two men kissing.
The web is getting deeper and darker, and starting this Friday, Memex will begin to give everyone a chance to lift the veil a little.
HBO says that preview copies of Game of Thrones have somehow been breached. They'd already been copied at least 1 million times before Sunday's airing of the new season's first episode.
Belkin is the latest router vendor to be found relying on "non-secret secrets."
Paul Ducklin looks at the router equivalent of locking the key to the company safe in the top drawer of your desk...
As tech firms, privacy groups and citizens continue to balk at government surveillance, the NSA has come up with an interesting proposal for a multi-part encryption key.
Amazon is suing four websites that sell fake 4 and 5 star reviews for trademark infringement, false advertising and cybersquatting.
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