Wi-Fi connections at three Japanese airports allow snooping of email
Users of free wireless Internet connections at Narita, Kansai and Kobe airports are vulnerable to electronic eavesdropping of their email and Web browsing, according to a study by an information and communications specialist released Tuesday. Such risks can be prevented by encrypting Wi-Fi connections, but ...
U.S. undercover investigators are among 25,000 exposed in data breach
A cyberattack on a firm that performs background checks for U.S. government employees has compromised data on at least 25,000 workers, including some undercover investigators, and that number could rise, officials said on Friday. The breach at U.S. Investigations Services (USIS), based in Falls Church, ...
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to making deadly toxins and shipping them to customers across the globe, among them a British woman plotting to kill her mother, a London magistrate, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. Jesse Korff, 19, of LaBelle, northwest of Miami, marketed ...
John McAfee, the flamboyant anti-virus software industry pioneer, made a surprise appearance at a computer hackers' conference Friday evening, where he unveiled a new website to give people a place online to vent their anger. The one-time millionaire who fled the Central American nation of ...
Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, wanted by the United States for leaking extensive secrets of its electronic surveillance programs, has been given a three-year residence permit by Russia, his Russian lawyer said on Thursday. Moscow's relations with the West are at Cold War-era lows ...
Police-appointed Internet watchdog sets out to purge 3-D gun designs
The National Police Agency said Thursday that an Internet watchdog acting on its behalf has been looking out for online blueprints for 3-D printed guns and requesting that Internet service providers remove them whenever they are found. While it is not illegal to publish gun ...
Pope urges young people not to waste time on Internet and smartphones
Pope Francis on Tuesday urged 50,000 German altar servers not to waste time on the Internet, smartphones and television, but to spend their time on more productive activities. "Maybe many young people waste too many hours on futile things," the pope said in a short ...
The government is adding a new element to its monthly economic assessments: “big data” culled from the Internet.
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp. will start Friday providing Internet video services showing gymnastic exercises that can help the elderly avoid physical problems. In the video, members of the idol group LinQ originating from Kyushu will engage in the exercises. The video feed will ...
Edward Snowden, the former U.S. spy agency contractor who leaked details of major U.S. surveillance programs, called on supporters at a hacking conference to spur development of easy-to-use technologies to subvert government surveillance programs around the globe. Snowden, who addressed conference attendees on Saturday via ...
Japan Airlines Co. will start offering in-flight wireless Internet connection on some of its domestic flights from July 23, the airline said. Passengers on some flights connecting Haneda with Hakodate, Hokkaido, Osaka and Fukuoka will have access to the wireless Internet on their PCs or ...
Samsung suspends China supplier following child labor allegations
Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest smartphone maker, said it suspended a supplier in China after finding evidence of illegal hiring. The supplier will be permanently cut from Samsung's business if it's found to have hired underage workers, the Suwon, South Korea-based company said in ...
