Costs of NSA phone records collection program outweigh the benefits
The NSA (National Security Agency) has often claimed that its data collection programs have helped thwart dozens of terrorist plots in the U.S. But an analysis of one such program, the NSA's controversial bulk telephone records collection initiative, suggests that the cost of running and maintaining the effort may far outweigh any benefits.
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Facebook made of Teflon when it comes to privacy, analysts say
Facebook is being sued for allegedly intercepting users' private messages, following links and sharing the information with advertisers and marketers. But analysts are doubtful that such accusations will be enough to make users abandon the social networking site.
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Midori and M#: Microsoft's open source bridge to better security?
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No hypervisor vulnerability exploited in OpenSSL site breach
The OpenSSL Project confirmed that weak passwords used on the hosting infrastructure led to the compromise of its website, dispelling concerns that attackers might have exploited a vulnerability in virtualization software. The home page of www.openssl.org, the official site the OpenSSL Project, was defaced Sunday to display a message from a group of hackers called TurkGuvenligi.
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Laptops, Chromebooks, tablets: The PCs we expect to see at CES 2014
CES comes at an awkward time of the year for PC manufacturers. The holiday shopping season has ended by early January, and the industry's next big selling season -- back-to-school time -- is many months away.
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Report: NSA looking to crack all encryption with quantum computer
The U.S. National Security Agency is attempting to build a new breed of supercomputer that theoretically could make short work of cracking most keys used for encrypted communications.
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Archos to debut $200 LTE smartphone at CES
Archos is showing two low-cost Android-based smartphones next week at the International CES trade show, including the 45 Helium 4G, which is priced at $200 without a contract. One of the major smartphone trends this year is expected to be the emergence of cheaper smartphones with LTE, which is something products like the Motorola Moto G and Nokia Lumia 520 today lack. The key is the availability of cheaper components from vendors such as Qualcomm and MediaTek.
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Snapchat, feeling the heat, will let users opt out of compromised feature
Snapchat, reeling from a recent hack that exposed millions of user names and partially redacted phone numbers of its members, will now let users back out of the feature that hackers abused. The company also said it would improve some mechanisms, including a tool known as "rate limiting," to combat future attempts to abuse its service.
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Wearable tech at CES 2014: Prepare your body parts for an onslaught of options
Wearable technology. It's an exploding product category in desperate need of a category-defining product. And now, with the Consumer Electronics Show upon us, we get to see whether some company, any company, can release an uncompromised, mainstream consumer hit in 2014.
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Facebook faces lawsuit for allegedly scanning private messages
Facebook has been accused of intercepting private messages of its users to provide data to marketers, according to a class-action lawsuit filed in a federal court in California. The social networking company scanned plaintiffs' private messages containing URLs (uniform resource locators) and searched the website identified in the URL for "purposes including but not limited to data mining and user profiling," according to the complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Modern-style Firefox for Windows 8 pushed back to March
The touch-optimized browser had been set to launch on Jan. 21, with the release of Firefox 27; now Mozilla is pushing back touch optimization to Firefox 28, a delay of six weeks. Add in the two-week vacation that Mozilla decided to grant employees last month, and the projected release date is now March 18.
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Nginx joins the big leagues in Ubuntu Server
We hardly need more proof that the Nginx Web server has become a major-league player. According to Netcraft, it's currently the No.
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Massively upgraded FreeBSD 10 to be released next week
The last release candidate build of the latest major revision of FreeBSD, version 10.0, is out, with a final release date for the OS set for Jan.
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