Spark wants to know if US spied on its customers' email
Spark is seeking clarification from Yahoo as to whether any of its customers had email searched at the behest of United States intelligence agencies. According to an investigation by Reuters, Yahoo last year used a software program to search its customers' incoming email for specific information provided by US intelligence agencies. That happened after Yahoo complied with a classified US government demand, it was reported. Spark is now trying to get more information, includin
Juha Saarinen: The malware that outs your life on the Internet
What if instead of denying access to important user data, the crims were to threaten to release it on the internet? The ransomware business model is simple and effective: trick people into running code that locks them out of the files they need (or even threaten to delete them), and demand money or else. It's a lucrative criminal enterprise when done at internet scale, so far, ransomware has proven relatively risk-free for blackmailers. Hospitals in particular have turned out
