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The US House unanimously approved legislation Wednesday requiring the authorities to obtain a court warrant to acquire e-mail and stored cloud data.
The Email Privacy Act unwinds a President Ronald Reagan-era law that allows the authorities to access e-mail and data from service providers without a warrant if the message or data is at...
Microsoft’s top executives were “embarrassed and appalled” upon seeing photos of female dancers in schoolgirl outfits at a Microsoft Xbox-sponsored event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, the company’s executive vice president of human...
Yahoo's once-iconic San Francisco billboard, pictured here in 2011. (credit: Scott Schiller)
In late 2013, Yahoo was hit with six lawsuits over their practice of using automated scans of e-mail to produce targeted ads. The cases, which were consolidated in federal court, all argued that the privacy rights of non-Yahoo users, who "did not consent to Yahoo's interception and...
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When you're a Fortune 500 company that's a favorite target of sophisticated hackers, it often makes sense to install security appliances at the outer edges of your network to stop attacks before they get far. Now, researchers say they have uncovered a vulnerability in such a product from security firm FireEye that...
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The "credible" threat that caused the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) to close all schools on Tuesday was sent from cock.li, the "meme" e-mail host that also provides e-mail services for 8chan, the 4chan splinter site.
School officials in New York and Los Angeles reportedly both received threats from madbomber@cock.li but only LAUSD took...
