Among the Republican candidates for US president, Jeb Bush is something of a cybersecurity policy wonk. At least, Bush talks an awful lot about cyber issues, like encryption, the NSA, and the steady onslaught of cyberattacks over the past few years. A few weeks ago, Bush made headlines when he said encryption employed by technology companies is...

– Kim Dotcom as you will find him on Twitter – It seems like ages since we last wrote about Kim Dotcom. Indeed, it is ages – more than a year, in fact – since our previous piece on the larger-than-life online entrepreneur who used to run a website called Megaupload. Megaupload, essentially a file sharing site,...

Yandex – the “Google of Russia” – has prevailed in getting the country’s antimonopoly watchdog agency to rule that Google has abused its dominant position in the market with Android. The agency, FAS, has 10 days to make the details of its decision public, it said in a statement on Monday. Yandex – which operates...

The Kilton Public Library in the US town of West Lebanon, New Hampshire is only 5 years old, and its modern sensibilities show: for one thing, it brags about sustainable technologies such as ground source heat pumps and radiant floor slabs throughout. It’s also a cutting-edge library in an entirely different sense: in July, it...

– Approximate Bitcoin-to-US$ rate (from oanda.com) – Mt. Gox was once the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchange. Now it’s a heap of digital rubble, after collapsing in early 2014. The company filed for bankruptcy after admitting it had “lost” customers’ bitcoins that were worth about $500,000,000 at the time. “Losing” bitcoins isn’t like a regular bank...

Pass a 350-foot no-fly law banning drones from buzzing over our heads without our express permission? Oh no, I think not, California Governor Jerry Brown said on Wednesday as he vetoed Senate Bill 142. The ban, which would have only affected commercial and private unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), would have meant that “burdensome regulation” and...

The US Department of Energy (DOE), which oversees the US power grid, nuclear arsenal and national science labs, is a prime target for cyberattackers who want to harm the United States. Now we are beginning to glimpse the extent of the threat, thanks to unclassified records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by USA Today. The government...

A Northern Ireland man has been handed a four-year jail term for running a series of very lucrative piracy streaming websites – including BedroomMedia.com and FastPassTV – from his bedroom, in Carnhill, Derry. According to the Derry Journal, “social recluse” Paul Mahoney, admitted to being responsible for a “highly sophisticated fraud” that netted him almost...

The law enforcement community has been warning technology companies that encryption in their products could let criminals and terrorists off the hook, with little evidence to support that claim. It turns out those warnings – from top law enforcers like FBI Director James Comey and former US Attorney General Eric Holder, and some elected officials in...

Microsoft will appear in a federal appeals court today to argue against the US government’s assertion that companies operating in the land of the free must hand over data stored in other countries when presented with a valid search warrant. The case in question, which began two years ago, surrounds emails stored on Microsoft servers in Dublin,...