George Danezis from University College London has an excellent blog post detailing the most serious implications of the bill, particularly its gagging orders against disclosure of state surveillance.
We recently posted about the VTech hack, in which millions of user account details were stolen from the Chinese toymaker. We noted that account passwords were hashed using MD5, making it easy to retrieve passwords.
_Blockchain technology_ is starting to get attention in banking circles, as its tremendous potential for banking transactions becomes apparent.
Hard disk encryption prevents access to your confidential files if your PC or laptop is stolen.
[CompleteFTP](http://enterprisedt.com/products/completeftp) customers will be pleased to know that CompleteFTP is very suitable for deployment in the cloud - we use it ourselves on Amazon AWS.
But why would someone choose the significantly more expensive _Enterprise Edition_? The key differences are described in this article.
The United States is no longer regarded as a "safe harbour" for EU data - and that's big (and welcome) news for Europeans.
Over the last week we've learnt that VW perpetrated a massive fraud on the US Environmental Protection Agency, and on other government agencies world-wide.
"I've got nothing to hide so I've got nothing to fear from [insert surveillance program here]" is a commonly heard retort to concerns about our diminishing ability to keep our personal information private.
Our previous post explained that the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is based on a narrow view of privacy that assumes it is primarily about concealing our wrongs.