+Cam Pro wireless camera monitors people or places from your smartphone

Home and business owners who need to keep an eye on their residence or business from afar have a new product to check out called the +Cam Pro wireless camera. The device is a wireless home security camera making it easy to monitor your home, business, kids, or pets by viewing the live camera feed […]

A Layman’s Guide to the High-Tech Tents That Keep Secrets Secret

A Layman's Guide to the High-Tech Tents That Keep Secrets Secret

It seems like every day brings a new "revelation" about Allied nations spying on other Allied nations. But while friends spying on friends might not be a huge surprise, the US is spending tons of money and brainpower trying to protect its sensitive conversations—in part, using portable security "tents."

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Kinect-Powered Security Cams Can Tell If You’re Fighting

Kinect-Powered Security Cams Can Tell If You're Fighting

The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for way more than just gaming. It’s good for sign language, cheating at pool, and (duh) porn. But it could help stop violence, too. Thanks to Kinect, security cams could automatically know if they’re witnessing a beat-down.

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Hackers make off with thousands of Bitcoins in Inputs.io breach

As Bitcoins see a steady climb in value, some unfortunate folks have found their accounts drained thanks to hackers who breached Inputs.io, taking a total of 4100 bitcoins. At present exchange rates, this amounts to about $1,230,000 USD, and unfortunately for those who were affected, the bitcoin wallet does not have the funds or other […]

Chrome extensions on Windows to get Web Store requirement in January

Windows users are no stranger to malware of various sorts, though the infection rate has decreased in some ways over the years. As with all browsers, Chrome is vulnerable to infections by those who take advantage of lax extensions security, with users installing (or in some cases, having installed without consent) malicious extensions. Google has […]

AT&T Decides to Fight Android Malware with Android Bloatware

AT&T Decides to Fight Android Malware with Android Bloatware

AT&T and security software maker Lookout announced today that, from here on out, all Android phones the carrier sells will come with Lookout’s security app pre-installed. Which sounds nice enough, but is really a lousy idea.

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“Sweetie” virtual child takes down 1000 pedophiles in 10 weeks

Technology is directly involved in our daily lives, making it more convenient, more efficient, and more entertaining. There’s another side to technological advances that we don’t see on the daily, however, and it is arguably the most important of them all — the ability to prevent crimes that otherwise would slip under the radar. Such […]

Google Engineers reply to NSA: “all too often, laws are for the little people”

There are a couple of Google engineers working for the Google security team replying in kind to the NSA and the GCHQ (on the other side of the ocean) regarding the most recent round of Edward Snowden-leaked documents on government snooping into Google and Yahoo cloud networks. What you’ll find is a rather everyman-level bit […]

Microsoft issues hacker vulnerability alert for Vista, Server, Lync, Office

Microsoft today issued a security alert for some of its products. A vulnerability has been detected in Windows operating systems Vista and Server 2008, and in Microsoft products Office 2003-2010 and Lync. Hackers could potentially send a link via email or the Web to unsuspecting users, who would then be convinced to click it to […]

Apple government user data requests for 2013 revealed

Today Apple has released a form which shows the most recent round of government requests for data from Apple on their user base. What you’re going to see is two charts, one that shows account requests, the other that shows device requests, the both of them detailed to a point by Apple insofar as what […]