Category Archives: Security News
Privacy groups want rules for how ISPs can track their customers
Some Internet service providers are building powerful tools to track customers, and the U.S. Federal Communications Commission needs to step in, privacy advocates say.
Some privacy advocates are calling on the FCC to create new regulations that limit how ISPs can track their customers across the Internet. The agency could release a proposal for ISP privacy rules as soon as this month, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said last week.
MIT’s new 5-atom quantum computer could make today’s encryption obsolete
The scalable new system could easily crack RSA techniques
Credit: John Phelan
Poor security decisions expose payment terminals to mass fraud
Cryptographic key reuse is rampart in European payment terminals, allowing attackers to compromise them en masse
The terminals, used predominantly in Germany but also elsewhere in Europe, were designed without following best security principles, leaving them vulnerable to a number of attacks.
Over 650 terabytes of data up for grabs due to publicly exposed MongoDB databases
Security researchers sound alarm on “very serious” privacy problem
This Japanese security drone will chase down intruders
World’s first security drone for companies available from Friday
