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FAA Relaxes In-Flight Mobile Rules

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Travelers on domestic flights in the U.S. will soon face far fewer restrictions on their in-flight use of mobile gadgets thanks to new rules announced Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration. Previously, travelers were required to shut off all devices with an on/off switch until the aircraft reached 10,000 feet, which typically was about 10…

Activists Press UN to Ban Killer Robots

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots — this is a real thing — has implored the United Nations to use this week’s talks in Geneva to ban the development of fully autonomous weapons — aka, killer robots. Hearkening to the plot of Terminator 2, the group said that such weapons would be able to select…

97 Percent of Company Mobile Apps Are Insecure

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Mobile apps for consumers have been criticized for gathering more information from users’ devices than they need. It seems, however, that mobile apps from companies fare no better. Ninety-seven percent of some 2,000 mobile apps produced by 600 companies accessed at least one private information source on the device they were installed on, according to…

How to Encrypt Your Email

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Some years ago, an antinuclear activist named Phil Zimmermann created a data encryption program for computers. He designed a key-generation and encryption-and-decryption system called “PGP,” or Pretty Good Privacy, for the bulletin board systems that were the precursors to forums, email and the Web. Civil libertarians and e-commerce lapped it up back in the nineties,…

A Cybersecurity Strategy for Citizens

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

The era of Big Data has scary implications for both personal privacy and national security and puts our society at significant risk. The impact of a cyberattack on a large financial institution or a security breach at a government’s secure data house, for example, would have dire consequences. As a result, cybersecurity is one of…

Security Firm Spills the Beans on Snapchat Vulnerabilities

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

After its discovery of a security hole in Snapchat was ignored for months, Gibson Security earlier this week released the API for the Snapchat application along with two exploits. One exploit lets hackers match phone numbers with Snapchat users’ names en masse; the other enables hackers to create huge numbers of fake Snapchat accounts. Together,…

Malicious Ads Infect Thousands of European Yahoo Users

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

Certain advertisements on Yahoo’s European website may have helped infect thousands of computers with malware, according to Yahoo. A Dutch computer security firm, Fox-IT, outed Yahoo last Friday, penning a blog post claiming that attackers had used ads.yahoo.com to insert malicious ads. Fox-IT was apparently on to something, because on Sunday, Yahoo admitted to hosting…

Intel Leaps Out of the Box

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

CEO Brian Krzanich laid out the road map for Intel’s future in his first Consumer Electronics Show keynote as CEO. Krzanich, who took over the top job last May, focused on wearable technology — including some products designed internally — as well as dual operating system tech and Intel’s McAfee security software. Personal Assistant Among…

RSA Could Pay Dearly for $10M NSA Gig

Eylül 9, 2025 • technewsworld.com

At least eight security experts who had signed up for the RSA 2014 security conference to be held Feb. 24-28 in San Francisco have publicly pulled out. They include F-Secure Chief Security Researcher Mikko Hypponen; Taia Global founder and CEO Jeffrey Carr, who is also founder of the Suits and Spooks conference; Christopher Soghoian of…

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