Suspicious of NSA spying, Microsoft eyes encryption
Microsoft is moving toward a major new effort to encrypt its Internet traffic amid fears that the National Security Agency may have broken into its global communications links, people familiar with the emerging plans said. Suspicions at Microsoft, while building for several months, sharpened in ...
Twitter beefs up users' data security
Twitter has announced a significant increase in its data security as it moves to protect users from attacks by the "apex predators" of the Internet. An internal team of security engineers has spent several months implementing "perfect forward secrecy," which adds an extra layer of ...
After anemic enrollment in the new health insurance marketplaces in October, states have started to see a much faster pace of sign-ups in November, prompting health policy researchers to announce a "November surge." By the end of October, the federal government had counted 106,000 people ...
To better protect the public health, the government should enact a law regulating the online sales of nonprescription drugs.
Teenagers deserting Facebook as mom and dad join social network
Facebook made a startling admission in its earnings announcement this month: it was seeing a "decrease in daily users, specifically among teens." In other words, teenagers are still on Facebook; they're just not using it as much as they did. It was a landmark ...
Taiwan’s ‘White Shirt Army,’ spurred by Facebook, takes on political parties
For decades this island has been bitterly divided into blue and green, the colors of its rival political parties. But that two-toned dichotomy has been upset in recent months by a sea of youths dressed in white. Now known as the "White Shirt Army," the ...
Anti-nuclear, civic groups targeted in large-scale cyber-attacks
At least 33 civic groups nationwide — many of them anti-nuclear organizations — have been hit by a series of cyber-attacks bombarding them with a total of 2.53 million email messages since mid-September.
Thanks to old law, South Korea stuck as the land of Internet Explorer
South Korea is renowned for its digital innovation, with coast-to-coast broadband and a 4G LTE network that reaches into Seoul's subway system. But this tech-savvy country is stuck in a time warp in one way: its slavish dependence on Internet Explorer.
White House rallies Democrats in effort to shore up health site push
By the time President Barack Obama acknowledged on Monday that his signature health care program had serious problems, it was clear the political stakes had escalated for the White House. And so that evening Obama gathered some of the top political advisers from his first ...
330,000 have made health insurance calculations: White House
More than 330,000 people have managed to get deep enough into new government health insurance websites to learn how much financial assistance they will receive purchasing coverage, the Internal Revenue Service said Saturday. That figure is arguably the most robust measure released to date by ...
Twitter users find out the hard way that anonymity is just fleeting
In the ego-driven game of Twitter, Jofi Joseph was, for a while, one of the winners. His 1,600 followers put him far below a Kanye West or even an Andrew Sullivan — but they were quality followers, an international relations in crowd that lapped up ...
