San Francisco is extremely scrupulous about its extremely complicated parking rules. Parked in the way of street sweeping? Ticket, sometimes in spite of the signage being missing. Failing to turn your wheels to the curb on a steep hill? Ticket, sometimes regardless of whether the hill’s listed as steep enough to warrant it. Parking at...

We already know that Android handset makers don’t always deliver security updates in a timely way – Google has only recently started issuing regular security updates for its own Nexus devices. But the number of unsecure Android devices out there is truly astonishing, according to research from the UK’s University of Cambridge – 87% of...

Beleaguered taxi firm Uber has accidentally revealed the personal data of hundreds of its drivers, exposing names, social security numbers, pictures of drivers licenses, tax forms and other sensitive information. Initially spotted by one of its drivers on Tuesday evening, the leak was reported on a dedicated Uber message board as well as the far...

Nothing like the padlock icon showing in your browser window to put your mind at ease, eh? After all, that lock signifies that the site has a Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate (TLS being the successor to Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL; it’s also referred to as SSL/TLS). The certificate authorities (CAs) that give out...

Oh, those bad, bad drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been spotted hovering over playgrounds, hurtling through the skies over London’s Hyde Park, dropping packets of drugs into prison, gawking at a sunbather, following somebody home and then hovering outside their bedroom window, buzzing at 365 metres (1,200 feet) above Liverpool city centre, being flown...

Relations between China and the US have a long way to go before you could call the rival superpowers friends, but this cold war has begun to thaw in recent weeks. Just weeks before Chinese President Xi Jinping was to visit to the US last month, the US threatened economic sanctions against Chinese companies engaging in...

In what’s being called a landmark victory for digital privacy, California police will no longer be able to get their hands on user data without first getting a warrant from a judge. Governor Jerry Brown on Thursday signed the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), SB 178, which requires state law enforcement to get a...

Eddie Raymond Tipton, come on down! Or, more precisely, “We’re sending you down for 10 years.” Tipton faced court in April 2015, and was finally convicted in July 2015, of rigging an Iowa lottery draw. Last week, he was sentenced. The charges went back to December 2010, when prosecutors argued that Tipton, ironically the security...

It was never about the money, said the man who owned Google.com for 1 minute earlier this month. So when Google reached out last week to discuss a reward for its former Display Specialist and Account Strategist/current MBA candidate Sanmay Ved, he responded with pure altruism – telling the company that he’d rather see the...