Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the opening speech at the 5th annual CyberSecurity Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel this morning. He believes cyber security is the future of his country
As pressure mounts in the US to pass laws requiring tech companies to include backdoors in their technologies, tech companies push back with a letter to President Obama.
Apple and Google are encrypting phones by default; Twitter, Facebook and others are increasing the security and privacy of their users. But law enforcement agencies in the US and UK are concerned by a perceived loss of access to the data. Is it worth trading in the privacy of our digital lives for the promise of security in the real world?
The Shellshock vulnerability, first discovered by Akamai researcher Stephane Chazelas, has been given a maximum severity rating of 10/10 from NIST. And security experts are urging Linux and UNIX admins to drop everything and patch a critical software vulnerability found in the extensively used Bash (the Bourne Again SHell), dubbed ‘worse’ than the now infamous Heartbleed flaw.
Increasingly we see tracking of students in schools, both their location and their activity. This data is being captured and retained in the hope of providing better security and better education to our children. But what is the price we pay for these promises and are they even being delivered upon?
