CCTV cameras should be installed by homeowners and businesses to help detectives solve crimes in the age of austerity, Britain’s most senior policeman has said.

When the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked if business and home owners needed to make greater use of CCTV cameras he said yes, adding: “We’ve got a strategy to encourage people, with their cameras, is to move them down to eye level.”

In 2013, Tor received more than $1.8 million from the U.S. government, about 75 percent of the $2.4 million in total annual expenses, according to their latest publicly available tax returns.

There is actually wide agreement among both Tor insiders and outsiders that discussing Tor’s government funding is an important next step for the organization.

Alain Philippon, 38, of Ste-Anne-des-Plaines, Que., refused to divulge his cellphone password to Canada Border Services Agency during a customs search Monday night at Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

He's been charged under section 153.1 (b) of the Customs Act for hindering or preventing border officers from performing their role under the act.

Many users of the popular BitTorrent client uTorrent are complaining about it silently installing a cryptocurrency miner with a recent update. The Epic Scale tool, which slows down host computers, is reportedly being installed without consent and for some is particularly hard to remove.

Brian Dowling, director of production, calls it "the dog kennel of the future." The two-room doghouse is rounded with a see-through front wall, giving it a retro-futuristic look. A paw-and-bones design decorates the inside walls. There are lots of soft pillowy parts to nap on.

According to the International Business Times, the Dream Doghouse comes with a £20,000 price tag. That's about $30,475 or AU$39,000.

On Wednesday the AP reported that Clinton actually ran a private mail server in her home during her entire tenure leading the State Department, hosting her email at the domain Clintonemail.com.

Any protection it had there—aside from the physical protection of the Secret Service—would have been limited to the Clintons’ own personal resources.

The trend will continue in 2015, driven by the lack of security awareness among WordPress' large user base and the lack of security expertise among its plugin developers, according to experts.

In 2010, Joomla and its associated plugins had four times as many vulnerabilities reported as Drupal and WordPress, according to the National Vulnerability Database. In 2012, Drupal led the pack, and in 2014, WordPress and its plugins had three times as many bugs reported as the next highest CMS.

Uber is trying to force GitHub to disclose the IP address of every person that accessed a webpage connected to a database intrusion that exposed sensitive personal data for 50,000 drivers. The court action revealed that a security key unlocking the database was stored on a publicly accessible place, the online equivalent of stashing a house key under a doormat.

The wording of Uber's complaint, saying a security key protecting the Uber database was stored on a publicly assessable GitHub page, is a step backwards for Uber as it attempts to reassure the public that the significant amount of information it holds is safe from prying eyes.

In a lengthy blog post Feb. 26, Charles Morris, program manager lead for Project Spartan, admitted that as the IE version numbers crept upward, Microsoft "heard complaints about some sites being broken in IE—from family members, co-workers in other parts of Microsoft, or online discussions."

"In addition, we revised our internal engineering processes to prioritize real-world interoperability issues uncovered by our data analysis. With these processes in place, we set about fixing over 3000 interoperability bugs and adding over 40 new Web standards (to date) to make sure we deliver on our goals," he stated.

After coming under intense pressure PayPal has closed the account of cloud-storage service Mega. According to the company, SOPA proponent Senator Patrick Leahy personally pressured Visa and Mastercard who in turn called on PayPal to terminate the account. Bizarrely, Mega's encryption is being cited as a key problem.

“MEGA has demonstrated that it is as compliant with its legal obligations as USA cloud storage services operated by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, Box, Spideroak etc, but PayPal has advised that MEGA’s ‘unique encryption model’ presents an insurmountable difficulty,” Mega explains.