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SPOTLIGHT ON SECURITY

Data Breaches Chip Away at IT Pros' Confidence in Security

The daily barrage of data breach news appears to be eroding confidence in security solutions Fifty percent of IT pros aren't confident about the ability of their security measures to protect their data, according to a survey released last week byBarkly....

Reddit Tech Forum May Ban Sites That Circumvent Ad Blockers

A forum on Reddit, /r/ Technology, on Monday announced it was considering blocking links to websites that require visitors to turn off their ad blockers before viewing content on the site "It has come to our attention that many websites such as Forbes and Wired are now requiring users to disable ad blockers to view content. Because Forbes requires ...

iPhone 7 Rumors Blunt Anticipation

It appears there won't be a lot of design changes in the next iPhone, according to a schematic photo NowhereElse published online Monday It shows what's purported to be Apple's upcoming iPhone 7 to be the same size as the 6s....

Futuristic Digital Assistant Viv Takes the Stage

Viv Labs CEO Dag Kittlaus on Monday demonstrated at Disrupt NY 2016 technology that was designed to make people-to-machine interactions as natural as people-to-people interactions Kittlaus, the former CEO of Siri, and other Siri vets cofoundedViv in 2012....

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ISIS Cyberthreat: Puny but Gaining Power

The Islamic State group's cyberwar capabilities are unsophisticated, but they won't be that way for long That was the conclusion of a 25-page report released last week byFlashpoint....

India Rejects Apple's iPhone Retread Plan

India's telecommunications ministry has rejected Apple's proposal to sell refurbished iPhones in the country, Bloomberg reported this week Officials rejected the proposal based on rules that prohibit importing used electronics, according to Reuters....

Law Affords More Protection to PINs Than Prints

A federal magistrate in Los Angeles ordered the girlfriend of an alleged gang member to open her phone using her fingerprint so prosecutors could look at the data on it for a case they were working on, the Los Angeles Times reported last week Paytsar Bkhchadzhyan, 29, of Los Angeles pleaded no contest to identity theft earlier this year. Within 45 ...

Apple Drops CareKit on GitHub

Apple on Thursday made its CareKit platform available through the GitHub open source community CareKit joins two other previously released Apple frameworks for developing healthcare apps -- HealthKit and ResearchKit. It was designed to enable developers to create apps that give users a more active role in managing their health....

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BlockIQ Escalates War on Ad Blockers

As consumers turn to ad blockers to avoid advertising on their mobile and computer screens, marketers and content providers who depend on pitches to pay the bills are searching frantically for ways to counter the pesky programs.BlockIQ offers them one BlockIQ, owned by AdSupply, which recently merged withAdaptive Medias, has launched BlockBypass. T...

Tech, Auto Honchos Join Forces to Push Self-Driving Cars

Some major players in both the new and old economies on Tuesday announced an alliance to pave the way for self-driving cars in America Ford, Google, Lyft, Uber and Volvo raised the curtain on their Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, which will work with lawmakers, regulators and the public to raise awareness of the safety and societal benefi...

White Hat Finds Security Threats on Facebook's Corporate Net

A white hat hacker last week announced the discovery of more than a half-dozen security flaws in some software Facebook used on its corporate network While performing penetration testing of some third-party software in a network appliance Facebook used, Orange Tsai, a security researcher forDevcore, discovered seven vulnerabilities that attackers c...

With Latest Opera Browser, Everybody Gets Free VPN

Opera on Wednesday announced that it would add a free VPN service to the latest version of its browser VPNs, or virtual private networks, add an extra level of security for Web surfers. Companies use them to provide secure communications for employees remotely accessing office systems, and consumers use them to block unwanted snooping on their onli...

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Insurance Industry Buzzes Over Data Breach Ruling

If the rash of data breaches in recent months has done anything for businesses, it's raised their awareness of cyber liability insurance The market for cyber liability insurance is expected to increase dramatically as businesses become more aware that their current policies don't adequately cover cyber-risks, according to theNational Association of...

EU Levels Antitrust Charges Against Abusive Android

The European Commission on Wednesday charged that Google breached EU antitrust rules by seeking to maintain and expand the dominance of its Android operating system "A competitive mobile Internet sector is increasingly important for consumers and businesses in Europe," said the EC's antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager....

MIT Researchers Forge New Weapon for Code Warriors

MIT researchers have developed a fast, accurate system for identifying security flaws in Web apps written in Ruby on Rails, according to news reports published last week In tests the researchers -- MIT Professor Daniel Jackson and Joseph Near, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley -- performed on 50 popular RoR apps,...

Facebook Envisions Virtual Social Future

Facebook on Wednesday demonstrated at its F8 developer conference how socializing could take place in a virtual world Two employees some 30 miles apart -- Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer in San Francisco and Product Manager Michael Booth in Menlo Park, California -- showed how they could share the same virtual space....

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E2E Encryption Could Make WhatsApp a Spam Magnet

Facebook's WhatsApp last week announced it would roll out end-to-end encryption for its users to better protect their privacy, but the move could make the service more attractive to spammers, too While encryption can safeguard information from data thieves, it also can block data protectors from detecting malicious activity on their networks....

Facebook Entices VR Content Creators With Open Source Surround Cam

Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a high-quality 360-degree 3D camera suitable for creating virtual reality content The Facebook Surround 360 system, which made its debut at the F8 developers conference, includes a production-ready camera -- which costs about US$30,000 to build and looks like a flying saucer from a science fiction movie -- and software ...

Next Apple Watch Will Be More 'S' Than 2

Most of the changes in the next version of the Apple Watch will be on the inside and not the outside of the case, according to an investors note issued Monday by Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities While he was short on details about what the internal changes for the watch might be, the analyst's comments are consistent with rumors circulating last summ...

White House Takes a Pass on Encryption Debate

It appears that the Obama administration will refrain from giving its outspoken support to any legislation that aims to compel high-tech companies to help law enforcement agencies crack mobile phone encryption On the other hand, it won't level any outspoken opposition either....

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