Articles by Richard Adhikari

This story was originally published on Aug. 19, 2013, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series Researchers at ETH Zurich, a university of science and technology, have teleported information from one end of a superconducting circuit to another -- a distance of 6mm....

The United States National Security Agency has seeded 50,000 networks worldwide with malware, according to a report published last week in Dutch newspaper NRC. That malware was designed to steal sensitive information, NRC claimed, citing documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden as proof....

Following on from the launch of its Moto X in August, Motorola Mobility is taking the concept of building smartphones to order to the next level through a partnership with 3D Systems The company is "looking for some edge in the market. You've got to have something different to attract people away from the big brands," Carl Howe, a research vice pre...

Neptune Computer, founded by 19-year-old Simon Tian, has raised more than CA$250,000 since launching a 33-day Kickstarter campaign for its Neptune Pine smartwatch on Monday with a target of $100,000 ...

"Privacy may actually be an anomaly," Vinton Cerf, who's hailed as one of the fathers of the Internet, told participants in a workshop on privacy and security in the Internet of Things held by the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday Privacy doesn't really exist in small towns, for instance....

The United States Federal Communications Commission is ramping up efforts to transition the country's phone networks from their current time-division multiplexing, or TDM, technology to Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP The FCC's January meeting will include consideration of an Order for immediate action, according to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

Bitcoin, the virtual currency that governments love to hate, came under the spotlight this week at a United States Senate committee hearing on virtual currencies Government and law enforcement agencies and the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children emphasized the attractiveness of the virtual currency to cybercriminals, while the Bit...

The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week launched a probe of the safety of the Tesla Model S automobile The investigation "was prompted by recent incidents in Washington State and Tennessee that resulted in battery fires due to undercarriage strikes with roadway debris," agency spokesperson Kathryn Henry told TechN...

Yahoo on Monday announced it will extend 2048-bit encryption planned for Yahoo Mail across its entire network CEO Marissa Mayer reiterated that the company "has never given access to our data centers to the NSA or to any other government agency."

Google and Microsoft have ramped up their efforts to fight online child porn following months of pressure by the office of UK Prime Minister James Cameron Among other things, the two have created a blacklist of search terms for which results will be blocked....

United States District Court Judge Denny Chin has ruled in favor of Google in a lawsuit filed by the Authors Guild over the Google Books project "In my view, Google Books provides significant public benefits," Chin stated in his ruling.

IBM on Thursday announced it will open up its Watson cognitive platform, allowing software developers to access it in the cloud starting next year The technology is based on its Watson supercomputer....

Motorola on Wednesday announced the Moto G, an unlocked, no-contract smartphone with an unlockable bootloader running Android 4.3, Jelly Bean, to be widely available next year An 8-GB version will be offered for US$179 and a 16-GB version for $199....

British intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) has spoofed LinkedIn profiles of employees at mobile communications companies and mobile billing firms to gain access to their corporate networks, Der Spiegel reported. The first known attack was on Belgacom, a telecom firm partly owned by the Belgian government, according t...

Insecurity and the Internet of Things, Part 1: Data, Data Everywhere In early September, the United States Federal Trade Commission's first action involving security and the Internet of Things came to fruition. The commission came to a settlement with Trendnet, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, over the firm's lax security practices....

New Relic last week previewed a new software analytics tool that aims to let companies use live application data to provide clear, actionable business insights across an organization To be launched next year, Rubicon will be built on the world's largest Big Data database, according to the company, and deliver real-time business insights, as well as...

Germany might go off the global Internet in response to the United States National Security Agency's recently uncovered surveillance activities Instead, German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom, whose motto is "Life Is for Sharing," has proposed a national routing scheme that would see all data packets -- including emails -- transmitted onl...

Finger-pointing has erupted among contractors responsible for the Obama administration's troubled Healthcare.gov website CGI Federal, the subsidiary of Canadian firm CGI that was the lead contractor for the project, blamed another contractor, as well as the United States federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which it said directed and s...

The United States District Court for the District of Idaho has ordered the seizure of data from the computers of white hat hacking firm South Fork Security in response to a lawsuit brought by Battelle Battelle alleges Southfork's cofounder, Corey Thuen, copied an application called "Sophia" that he helped develop while working at Battelle, and then...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology on Wednesday released a preliminary cybersecurity framework for improving the cybersecurity of the United States' critical infrastructure The Institute will soon open a 45-day public comment period on the framework, seeking input from reviewers on a series of questions. The dates will be announced ...