by Joseph Forbes | Jul 27, 2013 | DATA, LAW, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
from the trust-no-one dept. Following the /. story on the Feds demanding SSL keys, now comes news that the feds are demanding user passwords, and in some cases, the encryption algorithm and salt used. From the article: ‘A second person who has worked at a large...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 28, 2013 | DATA, HACKING, HARDWARE, SECURITY
from the insufficient-forethought dept. Using a Samsung Galaxy SIII — one of the most popular smartphones available in Canada — and a free app downloaded from the Google Play store, CBC was able to read information such as a card number, expiry date and cardholder...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 26, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, MONEY, NERD NEWS, TECHNOLOGY
from the on-my-own dept. There are rumblings around this week’s OpenStack conference that companies are moving away from AWS, ready to ditch their training wheels and build their own private clouds. Inbound marketing services company HubSpot is the latest to...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 24, 2013 | DATA, HARDWARE, HEALTH, INTERNET, MONEY, NERD NEWS, PRIVACY, SECURITY, Technical Support, TECHNOLOGY, Web Hosting
But the majority of US health providers are in smaller practices that have been slow to embrace electronic medical records Nearly a decade after research firms predicted major cost savings and clinical benefits from the use of health-IT, adoption rates among U.S....
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 23, 2013 | Cloud Apps, DATA, TECHNOLOGY
from the nicht-ohne-meine-ketten dept. In a recent blog post, Netflix details their plans to transition from Silverlight to HTML5, but with one caveat: HTML5 needs to include a built-in DRM scheme. With the W3C’s proposed Encrypted Media Extensions, this may...
by Joseph Forbes | Apr 22, 2013 | DATA, LAW, MONEY, NERD NEWS, POLITICAL, PRIVACY, TECHNOLOGY
A House committee doesn’t change the cyberthreat sharing bill enough to win support from some digital rights groups A U.S. House of Representatives committee failed to make the changes necessary to allay fears about government surveillance in a controversial...
