An American Airlines passenger described as “disoriented” had to be restrained today after his flight landed safely in Miami, according to the airline. The man reportedly stood up in his seat in the main cabin as the plane taxied to the tarmac and refused to heed the crew’s instructions to sit down, American Airlines said [...]

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Is Siri a security risk? It’s at least possible, says IBM. The company has banned the use of Apple’s digital iPhone 4S assistant. IBM Chief Technology Officer Jeanette Horan has banned Siri, as well as other digital commercial products like Dropbox. Horan says Apple’s Siri may represent a security risk to anyone dealing with confidential [...]

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Another potential terrorist has been successfully thwarted by the Transportation Security Administration. This dangerous suspect stands almost 3 feet in height and prefers to take lots of naps as she’s only 18 months old. Yes, the TSA removed the 18-month old daughter of two New Jersey-born Americans of Middle Eastern descent from a flight in [...]

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If you fly a small plane, you’re going to want to steer clear of Chicago next month.  Otherwise, you could be shot down. Plans to keep dignitaries safe during the 2012 NATO Summit include a no-fly zone, with a “shoot-to-kill” mandate for those who break the ban. Yes, the U.S. government is actually small plane [...]

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Fresh off their $25,000 for allegedly blocking a federal privacy investigation, Google is now the subject of a second federal investigation into its privacy practices that could result in an even bigger hit to the company’s bottom line. The Federal Trade Commission is now investigating the search giant’s actions in bypassing the default privacy settings [...]

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So you thought your Mac was immune to viruses, did you? Perhaps not. Last week, a Russian-based security company called Dr. Web reported that up to 600,000 Macs now seem to be part of a growing botnet, mostly in the U.S. and Canada. Security researchers are referring to the virus as the Flashback Trojan. “Systems [...]

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As our lives become increasingly more digital, many of us share more and more information on social media sites. Consequently, employers and colleges have started to request access to our personal profiles as a way to learn more about us. Should the same standards of privacy we’ve come to expect offline apply online as well? [...]

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If there’s one thing that’s become abundantly clear over the last few months, it’s that the internet won’t be completely safe until the government runs out of acronyms. Having safely defeated SOPA and PIPA, and fatally wounded ACTA, along comes CISPA. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (CISPA), also known as H.R. [...]

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Here are your top tech news headlines for Tuesday, April 3, 2012: – Global Payments says up to 1.5 million credit card numbers may have been hacked – Web has fun with April Fools Day – BMW concept car i8 Concept Spider made of carbon fiber-reinforced-plastic – IBM developing new data management technologies for world’s [...]

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As the debate rages on about employers asking their potential new hires for their Facebook login credentials, one man has opted to take a stand. Reginald Scott Braithwaite, a (former) Director of Software Development, wrote the resignation letter below after a new COO took charge and ordered that extensive “background checks” be done on new [...]

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Visa and MasterCard are warning banks of a potential security breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor. Sources in the financial sector are saying that the breach is “massive” and that it could involve more than 10 MILLION compromised credit card numbers. Alerts were sent out to U.S. banks late last week advising them that [...]

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The Orlando Sanford International Airport, one of the nation’s busiest, is going to attempt to opt out of only using Transportation Security Administration agents for its security screenings. The president of the airport said yesterday that he would again apply to use private operators to screen passengers, using federal standards and oversight. U.S. Rep. John [...]

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