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India introduces Central Monitoring System

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Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Indian government began quietly rolling out a Rs.4 billion(

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 08, 2013

Michael Chertoff on Google Glass

Interesting op-ed by former DHS head Michael Chertoff on the privacy risks of Google Glass. Now imagine that millions of Americans walk around each day wearing the equivalent of a drone on their head: a device capable of capturing video and audio recordings of everything that happens around them.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 06, 2013

Secrets of FBI Smartphone Surveillance Tool Revealed in Court Fight

A legal fight over the government

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 16, 2013

IRS going against privacy tide on warrantless email search

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has taken the position it does not need a search warrant to gather email in criminal investigations, despite opposition from lawmakers and privacy advocates and a ruling by a federal appellate court.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 15, 2013

Firefox 20 has per-window privacy and fixes three critical bugs

Mozilla has released Firefox 20, the latest update to the browser. As has been the case with most recent Firefox updates, there is a limited number of new features and a number of security fixes. Amongst the new features is the per-window private browsing, first seen in the beta of Firefox 20

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Apr 03, 2013

Don't Download That, Bro, You're Going to Get Busted

One of the most enduring questions in the history of online file-sharing asks whether something bad will come from downloading and/or sharing a particular product. Will the the recording and movie industries come knocking? Will the police or even the FBI take an interest? Are the evil bottom-feeding trolls watching my torrents? It

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 18, 2013

Taking copyright fight to ISPs too punitive, say critics

A new system launched to curb online piracy of intellectual property is meant to be educational, not punitive, says the organization behind it. But suspended Internet service or slowing service to a crawl sounds pretty punitive to critics of the Copyright Alert System (CAS).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 05, 2013

Return of CISPA: Cybersecurity boon or privacy threat?

Rights advocacy groups and security practitioners remain on opposite ends of the spectrum on the merits of sharing information as a means to improve cyber security.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 04, 2013

California County Inching Toward Drone Deployment?

Will Alameda County become California

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 15, 2013

The Ultimate Invasion of Privacy

How a Chinese hacker used my private nickname, personal emails, and sensitive documents to try to blackmail me.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Feb 11, 2013

Facebook's Graph Search worries security experts

Facebook's new Graph Search has security experts warning people who use the social network to raise their privacy settings in order to avoid embarrassment or becoming victims of cybercriminals.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 25, 2013

School Kicks Out Sophomore in RFID Student-ID Flap

A Texas high school on Friday barred a girl from attending class as part of the fallout from a legal flap that began when the sophomore refused to wear around her neck an RFID-chip student ID she claims is the

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 22, 2013

Ex-chief of security speaks about Revenue hacking

The Department of Revenue was more concerned with keeping employees from accessing news, sports and social media websites on their work computers than protecting taxpayer data like Social Security numbers, a former computer security chief at the agency said Thursday.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 04, 2013

Senate Approves Warrantless Electronic Spy Powers

The Senate on Friday reauthorized for five years broad electronic eavesdropping powers that legalized and expanded the President George W. Bush administration

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jan 02, 2013

Private Clouds, Cyber-security, Privacy: ISACA Issues Guidance

ISACA, a non-profit global association of more than 100,000 IT audit, security, risk, and governance professionals, released guidance on managing three top trends expected to pose major challenges to Indian businesses in 2013: Private vs. public clouds, cyber-security threats, and data privacy.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 20, 2012

Firefox gets an all-new private browsing mode

It was just a few weeks ago that Firefox got a fresh security boost on the eve of its eighth birthday, but this week Mozilla gave users of its popular browser a better way to protect their privacy as well.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 14, 2012

Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans

In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news report.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 14, 2012

Internet Hangs in Balance as World Governments Meet in Secret

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LinuxSecurity.com Team
Dec 04, 2012

Majority of popular EU websites don't ask permission to install cookies

A majority of European Internet users expect companies to ask for permission to track their activities online using cookies, privacy management company Truste said Thursday. But despite the 2009 introduction of the European Union's so-called cookie directive requiring just that, only a small minority of websites ask for visitors' consent, according to a survey by the company.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 16, 2012

How to devise passwords that drive hackers away

Not long after I began writing about cybersecurity, I became a paranoid caricature of my former self. It's hard to maintain peace of mind when hackers remind me every day, all day, just how easy it is to steal my personal data.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Nov 12, 2012

Linux Privacy - Page 22

Navigating the Tails 6.8 Update: What It Means for Security-Minded Users

Google Chooses Passkeys Over Passwords: Examining the Security Benefits for Linux Users

Tails 6.6 Released: Unpacking Key Features & Updates