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Blackphone to Peddle a Few Good Apps

Blackphone on Tuesday announced plans to open an app store for privacy-focused applications to run on its secure smartphone. The store is expected to launch in January ...

NSA’s Auroragold Mining Operation

The United States National Security Agency, which is known for monitoring landline, Web and cellphone communications worldwide, also targets wireless carriers, The Intercept reported last week ...

Turla Trojan Unearthed on Linux

Turla, a Trojan that has infected hundreds of 32- and 64-bit Windows computers at government institutions, embassies, military installations, educational institutions, and research and pharmaceutical companies over the years, has been found on Linux systems, Kaspersky Lab reported ...

Samsung Offers Cool Gear VR Headset but Content Is MIA

Samsung on Monday began offering what may best be described as the "alpha version" of its Gear VR headset, developed by Oculus, in the United States ...

Uber Lurches Down Rocky Road

An Uber driver in New Delhi has been arrested on charges of raping his passenger, prompting authorities there to ban the service from operating within city limits. ...

Sony’s Cyber-Whodunit Is a Page-Turner

Who breached Sony Pictures' network and why continues to be a puzzle a week after news of the hack first emerged. ...

Google Releases Consumers From the Scourge of CAPTCHA

Google on Wednesday announced the no-CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, a kinder, gentler way of distinguishing human Web surfers from bots. ...

Iran Raises Its Cyberfist to the World

Iran, which for decades has locked horns with the United States, is emerging as a cyberwarfare power that's threatening the world, Cylance warned in its Operation Cleaver report, released Tuesday ...

Apple Fights Yesteryear’s iTunes DRM War

Apple this week clomped into court to continue fighting a nearly 10-year-old class-action suit stemming from its use of digital rights management technology in iPods ...

Amazon Gears Up Its Well-Oiled Holiday Machine

With considerable media fanfare, Amazon on Monday announced its deployment of 15,000 robots as part of the highly automated systems in place at all 10 of its eighth-generation fulfillfment centers across the United States ...

Did North Korea Get the Last Laugh Against Sony?

Upwards of 1.2 million people have used pirate sites to download Brad Pitt's World War II drama Fury, scheduled for release Dec. 25, according to Variety ...

The Madness of the ITC, Part 2: Is Its Reach Exceeding Its Grasp?

The Madness of the ITC, Part 1: The Invisalign Case ...

Intel Gives Google Glass a Big Break

Google has teamed up with Intel to target the corporate market with its Glass eyewear, and it will use an Intel processor in the next iteration of the device instead of the Texas Instruments dual-core 4430 OMAP it now uses, according to The Wall Street Journal ...

The Madness of the ITC, Part 1: The Invisalign Case

The United States International Trade Commission in May issued its final ruling in what has come to be known colloquially as "the Invisalign case." ...

Amazon Goes Into the Handyman Business

Amazon on Tuesday began rolling out Amazon Local Services, which lets customers purchase professional assistance for setup, installation and repair work ...

FCC’s Spectrum Cash Cow Produces Rich Milk

Bidding for wireless spectrum in the United States Federal Communications Commission's latest auction has gone through the roof, raising more than US$36 billion as of Tuesday morning ...

EFF Spearheads Safer Web Initiative

The Electronic Frontier Foundation last week announced plans to launch a nonprofit organization -- Let's Encrypt -- in an effort to secure the entire Web ...

NotCompatible Mobile Malware Gets Badder

A new version of the NotCompatible malware, which first appeared in 2012, is bigger, badder and pretty much indestructible, Lookout Security reported ...

Firefox Sheds Google for Yahoo

Mozilla on Wednesday announced that Yahoo would replace Google as its global default search option, in a move that has set the tech media abuzz ...

Citadel Trojan Adds Keylogging to Arsenal

Cybercriminals are using a new version of the dangerous Citadel Trojan, which has been employed to attack the financial and petrochemical industries, to compromise password and authentication solutions, IBM Trusteer has reported. ...

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