The company has objected in a lawsuit to unreasonable US government requests for customer data. By John Ribeiro Microsoft’s lawsuit objecting to the indiscriminate use by U.S. law enforcement of…
Day: January 20, 2017
Trump Security Advisers’ Passwords Publicly Available
Concerns users may have same passwords for multiple applications. Phil Muncaster Serious security concerns have been raised about the incoming Trump administration after it was revealed that 13 top staffers…
Minecraft link to net's biggest botnet
Malware that launched the net’s largest ever cyber-attack last year had links to Minecraft servers, according to those investigating it. Security blogger Brian Krebs has spent months investigating the attack…
Viral Chinese selfie app Meitu phones home with personal data
Reg man submits self to invasive sparkly-unicorn androgyny transformation Darren Pauli The app harvests information about the devices on which it runs, includes invasive advertising tracking features and is just…