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Mon, September 2nd 2013, 09:30 · Nanine Steenkamp

Banking Trojans major spam issue

Banking Trojans are currently the most dominant malware threat, according to Kaspersky Lab, featuring in email attacks. → Read more
Wed, August 28th 2013, 12:00 · Richard Cutcher

African government requests ignored by Facebook

Not a single African government request for Facebook data was accepted by the social network, while the United States had 79 per cent of up to 12,000 requests accepted. → Read more
Tue, August 20th 2013, 06:00 · Kamau Mbote

Wikileaks hits 2 million Twitter followers

Wikileaks now has two million followers on Twitter, as the fate of whistleblowers around the world continues to make headlines. → Read more
Fri, August 16th 2013, 09:00 · Guest Post

Guest Post: Can a commercial VPN protect you from government spying?

Nick Pearson is chief executive officer (CEO) of IVPN, a privacy-focused virtual private network (VPN) service and Electronic Frontier Foundation member. → Read more
Mon, July 15th 2013, 12:21 · Susan Mwenesi

Microsoft collaborated with US security services – report

Microsoft collaborated with the United States’ (US) intelligence services to allow the latter to intercept users’ communications, according to a report by The Guardian. → Read more
Thu, June 27th 2013, 09:16 · Richard Cutcher

Protect web from government and company meddling – Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recognised as the inventor of the world wide web, has said provisions must be put in place to prevent the internet from being controlled by governments and big enterprises. → Read more
Thu, June 20th 2013, 07:40 · Richard Cutcher

Google calls for private data consistency

Google has called on governments around the world to “get together” and give close scrutiny to the process of data collection. → Read more
Wed, June 19th 2013, 08:12 · Richard Cutcher

BlackBerry distances itself from US and UK surveillance

BlackBerry has moved to reassure its subscribers there is no “back door pipeline” into its data in response to reports the United Kingdom government had been monitoring communication. → Read more
Wed, June 12th 2013, 14:58 · Susan Mwenesi

Internet companies write to US government over privacy leaks

Google, Facebook and Microsoft have asked they be able to disclose all the security requests they receive to hand over user data, in a bid to end speculation on the extent of their cooperation. → Read more