This week: Canadian Government Tries to Open Competition with Wireless Spectrum Auction; US Supreme Court Rules Phones Can’t be searched Without Warrant; Google Begins Erasing Links for Searches in Europe Globe and Mail | Spectrum auction to push mergers of small wireless players The federal government will announce Monday that it is offering coveted chunks of ...
This week: DoJ Brings Down Botnet; OpenSSL bug worse than Heartbleed?; Tech leads to more, not fewer, jobs; Apple improves location privacy with iOS 8 Businessweek | Federal Agents Just Brought Down the World’s Worst Botnet An international operation led by the Department of Justice has disabled a hacking network that generated losses of more than ...
This week: Canadians Lax on Privacy; Facebook Wants to Listen to you; Vancouver a New Tech Hub; Canada Hit by PoS Infection; Canada Relaxes Flight Restrictions on Mobile Globe and Mail | Canadians are lax on privacy, Senate committee hears Canadians are “stupid” and post far too much information online, a former head of the ...
This week: Health Benefits of Electric Car; Facebook Privacy; DARPA’s new projects; Secret History of Hypertext; The Most Secure Email in the Universe The Atlantic | Forget Saving the Planet, Driving an Electric Car Will Save Your Life The failure to persuade a sizeable percentage of Americans that climate change poses a clear and present danger ...
It has recently come to light that some versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable to an exploit called Heartbleed. OpenSSL is one flavour of security measures companies take to keep their information — which could be your information — secure from “bad guys”, who might want to collect it for illegal or questionable purposes. The Heartbleed ...
This week: NSA Runs into California Roadblock; State of the Internet: Lousy?; How to get a job at Google; Euro Court rules Google must respect right to “be forgotten” Reuters | NSA data-gathering may run into California roadblock The federal government would need a warrant from a judge if it wants the cooperation of California ...
This week: Hundreds of Thousands of Canadians under Surveillance; Canada’s Digital Strategy: Telus pledges Infrastructure Billions; US Judge says Email warrants valid Overseas Toronto Star | Government agencies seek telecom user data at ‘jaw-dropping’ rates OTTAWA—Government agencies are asking telecoms and social media companies to turn over Canadians’ user data at “jaw-dropping” rates, with nearly 1.2 ...
This week: Serious Flaw in OpenID, OAuth logins; Towards Independent Internet Governance; Microsoft patches XP Explorer flaw; Canadians Battling for Tech “World Cup” CNET | Serious security flaw in OAuth, OpenID discovered Following in the steps of the OpenSSL vulnerability Heartbleed, another major flaw has been found in popular open-source security software. This time, the holes have ...
This week: Internet Explorer Vulnerability; Independent Net Governance Step Closer; Ottawa threatens to cut Telus out of Wireless Auction; Goodbye to Net Neutrality? Reuters | U.S., UK advise avoiding Internet Explorer until bug fixed (Reuters) – The U.S. and UK governments on Monday advised computer users to consider using alternatives to Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer browser until ...
This week: Flaws in Heartbleed Detection; Tablet Maker brings Hope to Haiti; BC’s Privacy Commissioner Unhappy about Mental Health Disclosures; Flaws in Digital Privacy Act; Google the Lobbyist The Guardian | Heartbleed: 95% of detection tools ‘flawed’, claim researchers Free web tools and not picking up the vulnerability, leaving consumer data exposed. Some tools designed to ...
