Max Schrems’ 2013 complaint to the Irish data protection commissioner over Facebook’s handling of his personal information put him in an unusual position on Tuesday: He’s a co-defendant, alongside Facebook, in a case before the High Court of Ireland. The case concerns the standard contract clauses that Facebook and other companies relied on to legalize…
Companies building applications that leverage speech recognition have a new machine-learning based tool to improve their work. Microsoft is opening the public beta for its Custom Speech Service, the company said Tuesday. The service, formerly known as CRIS, allows customers to train a speech recognition system to work in a specific scenario, allowing it to…
Democratic senators have promised to fight any move by President Donald Trump’s administration to gut the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules. Any moves by Trump or the Republican-controlled FCC to roll back the 2015 regulations will meet stiff resistance from Democratic lawmakers and digital rights groups, the five senators said during a press conference…
Every few months, it seems like Twitter execs swear that the company will do a better job at shutting down abusive trolls. And yet, hate and harassment continue to plague the platform, making it impossible for some high-profile users to remain active. This week, Twitter is making three changes to ramp up its efforts, and…
The discovery of malware on computers and servers of several Polish banks has put the country’s financial sector on alert over potential compromises. Polish media reported last week that the IT security teams at many Polish banks have been busy recently searching their systems for a particular strain of malware after several unnamed banks found…
According to a report released last week by Javelin, card-not-present fraud went up 40 percent this year, but according to a new report from Visa, there has been no increase in online fraud. The increase in card-not-present fraud was part of a general increase in fraud, reported Javelin. “We’ve been measuring fraud for over a…
If this year is anything like last we are in the midst of phishers’ attempts to trick taxpayers, employers and tax preparers into giving up information that will allow attackers to file bogus tax returns and collect IRS refunds, according to PhishLabs’ annual phishing report. The latest Phishing Trends and Intelligence Report, which has data…
A piece of silicon less than three inches across may speed up the arrival of 5G mobile networks in the next few years. IBM Research and Ericsson have developed a compact antenna array that can aim high-frequency radio signals at mobile devices and shoot them farther than they otherwise could reach, the companies said. Silicon…
Dozens of iOS apps that are supposed to be encrypting their users’ data don’t do it properly, according to a security researcher. Will Strafach, CEO of Sudo Security Group, said he found 76 iOS apps that are vulnerable to an attack that can intercept protected data. The developers of the apps have accidentally misconfigured the…
The U.S. House of Representatives approved on Monday the Email Privacy Act, which would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search email and other data stored with third parties for longer than six months. The House approved the bill by voice vote, and it now goes the Senate for consideration. The Email Privacy…