Much of the effort that goes into making passwords stronger has no effect on security

A proof of concept attack uses malware to turn headphones into microphones that can eavesdrop from across a room.

Microsoft is bringing Office 365 to 10 new markets. The company today announced that people in Bhutan, Cambodia, Greenland, Guadeloupe, Laos, Maldives, Martinique, Mozambique, Myanmar, and Vatican City can now also subscribe to its productivity suite. The company says it…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Whistleblower Edward Snowden can be asked to give evidence in person by a German committee probing the NSA’s spying activities, the country’s Federal Court of Justice has ruled. Germany’s government has…

BrianFagioli quotes a report from BetaNews: Back in the the mid-1990’s, everyone thought they needed a computer. After all, Windows 95 made using one particularly easy, and the internet was a very attractive thing. Unfortunately, once some people got their…

After a little over a month of learning more languages to translate beyond Spanish, Google’s recently announced Neural Machine Translation system has used deep learning to develop its own internal language. TechCrunch reports: GNMT’s creators were curious about something. If…

Telegram has unveiled a new blogging platform called Telegraph, which offers fast publishing and anonymous posting without requiring you to sign up or sign in via social media. The Verge reports: The app’s user interface looks very similar to Medium…

Banks in Asia and Africa have been targeted with exploits for a zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software popular in Arabic-speaking nations.

Vulnerabilities in UberCENTRAL, a portal used by businesses to facilitate rides, could have leaked the names, phone numbers, email addresses, and unique IDs.

Only install mobile apps from trusted places, and always double-check the privacy settings to ensure you are not giving away too much information.