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Submission + - Big Companies Want EU Data Protection Rules Watered Down

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: The EU is considering watering down its data protection rules to lesen the regulatory burden on small companies processing what is deemed to be "low risk" data. Unsurprisingly, there's one group that wants these rules changed even further: large companies. DigitalEurope, a lobbying group backed by IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle, is pushing for further changes.

Submission + - "Phony Cell Phone Tower" Stories Were PR For A Secure Cell Phone Company (itworld.com) 1

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Last month, a spooky story was making the rounds on tech news sites: mysterious cell phone towers popping up all over the country claimed by nobody. In fact, the towers are almost certainly run by law enforcement agencies, while unsettling, aren't new; and almost every story includes quotes from Les Goldsmith, the CEO of ESD America, the company that sells the phones that detected the towers — stock Galaxy S IIIs turned into hardened phones with numerous exploits removed and all kinds of security added. Was the whole kerfuffle a masterful act of PR?

Submission + - Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over U.S. Spying Will "Break The Internet" (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Oregon Senator Ron Wyden gathered a group of tech luminaries to discuss the implications of U.S. surveillance programs, and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt didn't mince words. He said that worries over U.S. surveillance would result in servers with different sets of data for users from different countries multiplying across the world. "The simplest outcome is that we're going to end up breaking the Internet."

Submission + - Bug In Bugzilla Could Reveal More Bugs To Attackers (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Bugzilla is an open source bug-tracking tool that many development shops use to keep tabs on bugs — including code vulnerabilities — in their codebase that they're working on fixing. Ironically, Bugzilla has now itself been found to contain a flaw that would allow users to escalate their priviledges and gain access to information on bugs they aren't authorized to view.

Submission + - Coming Soon: LCD Screens In (Almost) Any Shape (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Traditional LCD panels are rectangular because the tiny chips that drive each pixel of the display are fitted along the edge of the glass panel on which the screen is made. But in a new breed of screens from Sharp, the chips are embedded between the pixels so that means a lot more freedom in screen shape: only one edge of the screen needs to be a straight line, which could give rise to a host of new applications.

Submission + - The Worst People You Meet In IT (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: Anyone who's worked in IT long enough has come to recognize certain archtypes that can make your work day miserable: The Consultant. The Underqualified Humanities Degree Middle Manager. The Mansplainer. The Political Theorist. And more. Who's your least favorite?

Submission + - 'Digital Nomads' In Chang Mai Get Brief Scare From Thai Immigration Authorities (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: The 21st century has seen a rise in "digital nomads" — people with work-at-home or freelance jobs who travel the world, knowing they can earn money wherever they have a laptop and internet access. But sometimes its easy to forget about the reality of immigration law: Thai authorities briefly detained a group of freelancers who were working in a Chang Mai co-working space before deciding they weren't violating the conditions of their tourist visas.

Submission + - Apple might lose Siri's core tech to Samsung 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: We all know Apple bought Siri in 2010, but what many didn't know is its core technology is owned by Nuance, maker of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Well, it seems Samsung is looking to buy Nuance, and if it does, what are the chances it will cut off the Nuance core from Apple? About as likely as the sun rising in the east.

Submission + - Intel Eats Its Own Dogfood, Saves $9M Using Internet Of Things In Factory (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: A good way to sell someone a new technology? Prove to them that you believe in it enough to use it yourself. IBM has been trying to get customers to buy into the concept of the "Internet of Things," in which tiny distributed networked sensors would improve manufacturing processes. To prove its point, Big Blue implemented such a system in one of its Malaysian factories, and claimed $9 million in savings.

Submission + - Malware Targets Hong Kong Protestors' Cell Phones (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh
jfruh writes: An iOS trojan called Xsser mRAT seems to be targeting people in Hong Kong protesting China's plan to restrict elections there, and Lacoon Mobile Security says it has trademarks of being developed by a nation-state. A similar piece of malware masqueraded as a tool for coordinating protests and attacked Android users. The trojan collects SMS messages, call logs, location data, photos, and address books data.

Submission + - Four Charged With Stealing Army Helicopter Training Software (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: Four alleged members of an international computer hacking ring face charges in the U.S. of breaking into the computer networks of the U.S. Army and several tech companies and stealing several software packages, including programs used to train Army helicopter pilots, as well as software and data related to the Xbox One gaming console, the Xbox Live online gaming service and popular games such as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Gears of War 3.

Submission + - Chinese Regulator Claims Flaws In Apple's iOS Can Steal Users' Data (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: China has effectively cleared the iPhone 6 for sale in the country, granting the product a license, but not before a government regulator demanded Apple make some security changes in the iOS operating system to fix suspected flaws in the software. These flaws involved "three background services" that can be exploited to retrieve users' private information, China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said in its posting.

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