On Monday password manager service LastPass admitted it had been the target of a hack that accessed its users' email addresses, encrypted master passwords, and the reminder words and phrases that the service asks users to create for those master pa
Many researchers have long believed publishing power has evolved to lie in the hands of a few big companies, like, say, Reed-Elsevier and Springer. But none had ever done a study to see if that was true.
I simply don't trust large corporations with my data. In America, they can sell my data at will and disclose it to whomever they want. It can be made public inadvertently by their lax security. My government can get access to it without a warrant.
Wikipedia, one of the most popular websites in the world, will now be encrypted by default, a change that will better protect its hundreds of millions of visitors from surveillance and censorship.
Where there are bitcoins, there are scammers. Some users on the dark web drugs and weapons marketplace Agora are being directed to a site which deploys malicious code designed to empty their accounts of the digital currency.
Elon Musk's space company has asked the federal government for permission to begin testing on an ambitious project to beam Internet service from space, a significant step forward for an initiative that could create another major competitor to Comca
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company is currently developing a micro-satellite network that hopes to bring cheap and uncensored internet access to the world,
I live in Bangkok, the second most popular city tourist destination in the world. I have been an AirBNB host for just over two years, welcoming over 700 people from more than 70 countries and making nearly $42,000.
Mike McCaul calls attack 'most significant breach of federal networks in US history', amounting to espionage – but the White House has not assigned blame
In today's extra edition of Terraform, we're thrilled to share an excerpt of a fascinating forthcoming project: 'The Future Chronicles', a journalistic journey through time.
As a spate of new shows from Netflix and Amazon prove that some of the best television being made streams rather than airs, TV will take a financial hit. PwC's annual five-year forecast for entertainment and media released today has revised downwar
Facebook announces experimental implementation of PGP, the cryptographic encryption and authentication tool used by Edward Snowden, into its social media empire.
Last Friday came the unpleasant news that Ross Ulbricht, the 31-year-old former operator of the Silk Road site, has been sentenced by a federal court to life in prison without parole.
Filmmaker Alex Winter has written, directed, and produced a film outlining the story of the rise and fall of Silk Road called Deep Web. It premieres on May 31st at 8PM on Epix.
Google X, the company's "moonshot" development arm, dedicated to dreaming up wacky things like driverless cars and wearable face computers, had a problem. Its stratospheric, internet-providing balloons kept leaking and falling down after a couple mon
The Department of Justice filed a brief Wednesday recommending that the US Supreme Court reject Google's appeal in Oracle's lawsuit against the company over its use of elements of the Java programming language.
What if computers could take the words we type on the internet and convert them into a language that describes what they actually mean? Analyzing data pulled from social media would reveal insights into the deeper questions about our real motives and
A collection of tech industry giants like Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, as well as civil liberties organizations and Internet security experts, sent a letter to President Obama on Tuesday warning of the unintended consequences of any policy
Over the past 25 years, the Internet has radically altered the way people communicate and share ideas and the way businesses interact with customers and clients.
• http://www.washingtonexaminer.com, BY PAUL BEDARD
The Federal Election Commission, facing punishing criticism for suggesting that political activity on the Internet should be regulated, rejected talk of new rules Thursday, a victory for GOP commissioners who feared Democrats were targeting conservat
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