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Big data poses security challenge to businesses - McAfee News
19.06.2013 Some organisations are leaving themselves vulnerable to security breaches because they are unable to properly analyse or store big data, a new report titled Needle in a... -
Google pleads the First – wants removal of gagging order on data requests News
19.06.2013 Citing the First Amendment, Google has petitioned the Federal Intelligence Surveillance Court to allow it to publish aggregate numbers of national US security requests. In the... -
Google invests US$7m in bid to eradicate child abuse imagery online News
17.06.2013 Internet giant Google is to step up its efforts to eradicate child abuse imagery online and is investing US$5m as well as supporting organisations in the frontline fighting this...Categories: Web, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Investments, Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Apple reveals US law agencies made up to 5,000 data requests News
17.06.2013 In the fallout over revelations of the PRISM programme, technology giant Apple has said it does not provide any government agency direct access to its servers and revealed it... -
Weekend news round-up: Snoopgate fallout continues; Saudi Arabia to ban Whatsapp News
17.06.2013 The fallout over Edward Snowden’s leakage of sensitive information about US intelligence surveillance of the internet continues and tech giants are taking it upon themselves to... -
Ireland’s Trustev named Europe’s Top Start-up by European Commission News
14.06.2013 European Commission vice-president Neelie Kroes last night named fast-emerging digital fingerprint start-up Trustev as Europe’s Top Start-up, as part of the commission’s Tech...Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, R&D, Investments, Internet, Funding, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business -
Software industry calls for overhaul of college access model News
13.06.2013 A group representing Ireland’s indigenous software sector has called for a shake-up of the college entry system so that the much-maligned points system is not the only way... -
EU Commissioner Reding to take US to task over PRISM in Dublin this week News
12.06.2013 Viviane Reding, the EU’s Justice Commissioner, has added her voice to the chorus of questions directed towards the US Attorney General over revelations surrounding PRISM, the US... -
Google asks US govt to report full scale of NSA data requests News
12.06.2013 In a letter to the US Attorney General and the FBI, Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond has asked the US government to publicly reveal the full scale and volume of... -
Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan join call for US Congress to stop NSA surveillance News
11.06.2013 Internet firms Mozilla, Reddit and 4chan have joined their voices with 86 other organisations, including Access and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, urging US lawmakers to...Categories: Social Media, Servers, Security, Search Engines, Search, Legal, Internet, Government, Digital Media -
Crowdfunding campaign launched to raise legal funds for Edward Snowden News
10.06.2013 A Crowdtilt crowdfunding campaign has been launched to raise legal fees for the NSA whistleblower and former CIA contractor Edward Snowden, who is currently in exile in Hong Kong. -
Weekend News Round-up: US cyber spying whistle-blower revealed; is Snapchat worth US$1bn? News
10.06.2013 The weekend’s tech news agenda was dominated by the fallout of the massive revelations around how US intelligence agencies have been spying on the servers of the top internet...Categories: Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Mergers & Acquisitions, Internet, Data Management, Consumer Tech, Business Intelligence, Apps -
Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg denies knowledge of PRISM News
08.06.2013 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed claims that the social networking platform cooperated with US intelligence bodies like the National Security Agency (NSA) in allowing... -
‘116 000’ Missing Children’s Hotline now operating on 24-hour basis News
07.06.2013 The 116 000 Missing Children’s Hotline which had been established on a pilot basis by the ISPCC in December is now operational on a 24-hour basis.Tags: An Garda Siochana, Communications, -
Is this for ‘rail’? Thousands of Irish Rail customers to pay out over systems glitch News
07.06.2013 Irish Rail customers will have to stump up after a glitch in the railway company’s systems meant over 9,000 payment cards were not charged from Iarnród Éireann ticket vending... -
US intelligence boss slams reports alleging internet surveillance of citizens News
07.06.2013 The director of National Intelligence for the US Government James R Clapper has dismissed as “containing numerous inaccuracies” newspaper reports claiming intelligence agencies... -
US intelligence mines data from nine internet giants, including Google and Facebook News
07.06.2013 Just a day after reports surfaced that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US interpreted the Patriot Act in such a way as to seek phone records of millions of US citizens...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Software, Social Media, Servers, Security, Internet, Data Centre, Computers, CommunicationsTags: YouTube, Skype, AOL, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google, National Security Agency, FBI, Barack Obama, Cyber security, -
The Five Minute CIO: Brendan Healy, Irish Life News
07.06.2013 A major mainframe to Microsoft re-platforming project at Irish Life was a success but the outcome could have been so different. Group CIO Brendan Healy says the key was a... -
I am Bradley Manning project ‘leaks’ video in support of whistleblower News
06.06.2013 Former United States Army private first-class Bradley Manning is facing life in prison for charges that he aided the enemy when he leaked military cables to Julian Assange’s... -
EFF rage at alleged gathering of phone data of millions of US citizens News
06.06.2013 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has responded angrily to reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US is alleged to be gathering data on private US citizens. It...